I’m usually not a fan of pet stores. They are dangerously heart-breaking places for me.  I have to purposefully avoid the pet stores in places like malls that usually sell puppies or kittens not from shelters.  Unless the cages they are in take up most of the store, they’re too cramped, too small, to horrific for me to deal with. Standing there and watching little pups and kittens laying with dull eyes in a space just...

We own birds. This may surprise you. You might think, “Gosh Mel. I would have never known you own any animal, let alone birds.” But its true. Not one, but two! Two birds, ah, ah, ah. And while we had the cages, the right food, the toys and the time to spoil them what we didn’t have was the $ for an awesome perch where the two of them could totally climb all over and fling more seeds and bird poop all over our house. So we...

I decided to clean out the images on my phone memory card last night, in a desperate attempt to give me something to do. I’ve always loved stumbling across pic dumps and a couple of these gave me a chuckle, so I figured I should follow kindergarten rules and share! You’ll have to forgive the quality of some of these, my camera phone is just one step above a daguerreotype. Well, you didn’t think we weren’t going to...

I keep a live journal and often end up putting more of my light hearted items over there as elf_fu.  A few days ago however, I was browsing through my friends list and noticed a post from Scarletdemon, passing along something for one of her live journal friends, Tizzrah. Tizzrah volunteers and is also a kitty foster mom for a special lil’ guy named Stitch. Stitch unfortunately needs a new butt. Specifically, he has a prolapsed...

image ©: SalsolaStock . “I could only watch in horror as he ran from me and into the middle of the road.” “There was nothing we could do, she slipped through a hole in the fence and by the time we realized it, the neighbors dog had already gotten to her.” “We found pieces of him strewn about the lawn.” _______________________________ My opinion on leashes and the tragedies that could be prevented...

Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages. Please welcome the newest addition to the fur and feathered family of Mel & Shawn: Guppy. Guppy came to us via a lady, whom I have never met nor do I know her name.  She contacted my husband’s sister, Kim, who works at a pet store trying to find a good home for him. She said that she simply didn’t have time to spend with Guppy and could no longer look after him....