Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

Our friends had decided to advertise the Brutus-Snowball pups as “designer dogs”.  Oh please, I asked them ,don’t do this, just find the pups good homes.  No, they went forward, put a really nice website together with photos, put ads out, ….. and I sat wondering how long it would take before Brutus’ […]

And so Chloe came into our home.  Brutus shared his bones with her.

And let her bite his nose.

And laid and took her rough-housing.

And let her walk away when she had had enough.   He has taught her much over this last year and they still play just like they did when she first came into our […]

When Brutus was 5 months old we had to go to the National Science Olympiad competition and leave our little puppy for a week.  I could not bring myself to put him in a kennel for a week so I turned to a friend who had a 3yo large-size dog, and who knew how to […]

A year ago after my Dad’s funeal we tried to start school, we went through the motions, and soon we were back into the groove of doing school…..  And then as things happen a phone call came.   From my friend.  The one who had taken care of Brutus for a couple days.    Her […]

Brutus is a giant dog, a gentle giant.   I had had a gentle giant before, Benson, a Great Dane who stood 39″ at the shoulders.  Imagine, a dog, in your kitchen whose shoulders are 3″ above your kitchen countertops….Yes, Benson counter-surfed with ease.
So when I read online that there was some evidence […]

One year ago, my how life changes.  How one little action snowballs into effecting others, in many, many ways.  Snowballs.  That’s the name of Chloe’s mom.   Chloe’s coloration is not at all like her mom’s but her body shape is.
One year ago.   My sons and I had spent a full week with my Dad, […]

MilitaryKid drew up the following contract:
I will take total responsibility, except financial responsibility, which includes but is not limited to:

poop duty two to three times a week
cleaning up messes in the house
brushing weekly
feed daily
walk twice daily
provide clean water twice daily
take dog out in the middle of the night
obedience training

These duties will […]

Last evening after the presents were unwrapped, the stomachs were all stuffed, the dishes washed, the boys were off playing their new Age of Empires game, I turned on my PC. And there it was, a comment from a reader:

Hello, I just wanted to stop by and tell you Thank You!!! This particular […]

Puppy Bows. I love seeing a dog greet another dog; dropping down on his forearms so his chest and face are on the ground while his butt is high in the air. He’s saying, please play, don’t you want to play with me, as his tail wags wildly. […]

This morning MK shouted out that Brutus had eaten a buckeye. A buckeye is a poisonous black and tan nut and while he was able to get some of the chewed nut out of Brutus’ mouth we were missing at least 3/4 of the nut.
We took Brutus outside, gave […]