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Who remembers John Steinbeck's book, Travels with Charley ?

I "loved" that book (back when I loved inanimate objects lol.)

I threatened to write a book regarding my travels and situations when I had my JHL Figaro, a purebred black labrador service dog. Now, with Dood Caleb Colombo, my godoodle (golden retriever-standard poodle) service dog, I'm sure I need to put these wonderful (and not so great) stories in print for others to enjoy!

Of course, I would have to include a sideline about my little rabbit: Namaste'.

The most recent story is "the burying of the basketball."

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I need to read this book. As a teenager we had a mean cat named Charley. He was an orange tabby cat and he only liked my dad. If any of the rest of us acted like we were going to pet him he hissed at us but he would jump up on my dad's lap and go to sleep. I knew he was sick when he let me pick him up and drive him to the vet's office. It turned out his urinary tract was stopped up and he had to be rotorooted. After we changed his cat food he was back to his old mean self. He moved with us here to Arkansas and he ended up living to the ripe old age of 15 and ended up having to be put down. Even though he didn't like me I cried and cried when we had to put him down.

I now have my own orange tabby and am glad that he is nothing like Charley.

Jbug

I'll need to read that book sometime, I like animal stories

My cat is a little crazy, she likes to play fetch with tinfoil balls and sometimes when she catches them she'll hide them in her water bowl, in your shoe, or in your purse if it's on the floor! She isn't very affectionate most of the time, but she always likes to be around me for some reason, "Stalking" me throughout the house. She's also done some weird things too, like using literaly everything (even my hand!) as a springboard to catapult around the house and tried to climb the shower curtains once (my mom was not happy about that one) and she likes to sleep in corners. When she was a really little kitten though she'd alwaus fall asleep on my lap. Despite all of those quirks I love her so much, I don't know what I'm going to do when she's gone many years from now...

PS: I have a few pictures of her in my album on my rofile.

steinbeck is one of my favorite authors...and that is my favorite work of his...what a great book...i have an old paperback copy from about 30 years ago and i recently splurged on a new one

i have written some short stories about adventures i have had with my dogs...and how they have helped me heal..especially my chesapeake bay retriever miss casey...she was a rescue puppy who herself had been abused...i like to think we each helped each other heal...what a great dog she was...she passed a year ago september and is sorely missed

i enjoy travelling with my dogs...it reminds me to go slow and to be open to experience things with all my senses...the way they do...i think the same is true when meeting people...they remind me to be open to the whole person...not just the physical...

i try to be in tune with how my dogs react...most of the time they are wise and their instincts are true....(altho the demon beast basset youngster would sell his soul for food)

anyway..back to travels with charley..something i always do with my guys is that i always stop in a new state and allow them to annoint a tree...i figure they should be permitted to announce their arrival to a new area (i seem to recall steinbeck let charlie do the same)