Bonding Dinners, Day One: Two Plates in Neutral Territory
New foster girl home yesterday, and tonight was dinner date number two in neutral territory. This is the dinner-date diary:…
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New foster girl home yesterday, and tonight was dinner date number two in neutral territory. This is the dinner-date diary:…
Clumsy hour struck: a soft bonk during play, totally unintentional. He shook it off like a tank, gave me a…
Some evenings he sits on the bed edge and stares at the wall. Or in the doorway, watching the next…
She came home Saturday, ten weeks old, tiny and brave. This is the arrival log: hour by hour Saturday, then…
Bundad spoils her rotten and she forgets I exist. Treats from him, side-eye for me. I pretended to be jealous,…
She is almost eight and still does her laps. Not the high-speed binkies of year two, more like happy 0.75-speed…
He climbs on, tiny paws kneading, then nibbles at my sleeve seams like they are knots in my fur. Rabbit…
I told her she was cute and the face changed instantly: ears up, chin up, pure queen. Before: sleepy loaf.…
Empty toilet-paper roll, two ears, one very patient bunny. This is my invention log: prototype, payment system, approval, and the…
For two years she preferred someone else in the house. Then last week, out of nowhere, she started jumping into…