Tag Archives: connection

My Cheesepuff was no Cream Puff

By Claudia Johnson | Published: July 1, 2009
I could feel the cat gently walking around my head on the pillow, pulling my hair ever-so-slightly. Deep in that last morning dream before waking, I realized I was lucid. I looked around and could see she was an orange and white, long-haired tabby. I just knew it was a she. I could hear her insistent meows [...]
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For the Love of Teddy

By Dawn Huebner | Published: July 1, 2009
I have always shared my life with cats, yet nothing could have prepared me for the stray cat who found his way into my life, heart and soul. He showed up from nowhere, sitting squarely on my front steps, like a Romanesque statue. Upon closer examination, he was a disheveled orange tabby cat with a severe case of ear mites [...]
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Cat in the Buggy

By Diana DiCristina | Published: July 1, 2009
Did you see that? That woman has a cat in the baby buggy! Yes, that would be me. After almost fifty years, once again I am pushing a baby buggy with a cat. It all started on a cold winter day late February 1956, and my Mom was pregnant with her first child: me. Being almost eight months pregnant and [...]
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The Teacher

By Alyson Chandler | Published: July 1, 2009
[caption id="attachment_9201" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Bilig, the Lipizzan"][/caption] Shortly after 9/11, I had returned home to Minneapolis from Arizona. I had worked with a Tibetan lama who instructed me to work with the animals - particularly the horses. As a healer, I understood the message and set out to offer my healing services to local horse [...]
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Understanding Intimacy

By Michele Bergh">Michele Bergh | Published: July 1, 2009
It started innocently enough. The sign at Petco for adoption day...telling my husband, "I just want to look." I meant it when I said it. I love animals. I love going to places where there are animals and spending time with them. Then I saw her. She seemed to be calling to me. This beautiful 9-month old Siamese [...]
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Roots…and Possibility

By Tim Miejan | Published: May 1, 2009
I learned a couple summers ago, while visiting my Uncle Ron at his home in northern Montana, that a not-so-distant relative of ours was a full-blood Lakota woman. I didn't know what to make of this information, having just driven by the memorial at Custer's Last Stand, the Little Bighorn Battlefield, days before. Already an [...]
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