Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

After reading my previous post about celestial hand-holding, my college roommate Bob sent this photo of my dog Bart in front of our modest h...

Our cat Lacey died yesterday. She was old, 18 or 20, which is ancient for a cat. She was a Holstein variety, mottled black-and-white like th...

Neighbors. Our tomcat Teddy chases my neighbor M's cat and, in return, M's tomcat sneaks in our pet door in the dead of night to e...

Coco and Annie Our dog Coco passed today. We had her put to sleep, as the old saying goes. Put out of her misery. We humans get to mak...

I didn't like the name" Precious" when we brought our new dog home from the Animal Shelter in January 1992. I suggested to my ...

We put our dog Precious to sleep today. She was 15, or 16 -- she was an Animal Shelter stray so the age was always a guess. She was one (or ...