Margo, Pepper, Rusty, Ziggy and I I've been making friends with dogs for 42 years (and I turn 43 in November). I don't know everything about how dogs think, but I've spent a lifetime trying to figure it out. Did I try telepathy? Yes: when I was about 8. But I'll tell you what works better than telepathy in more cases than not. It works with dogs, it works with cats, it works with baboons, it works with tigers. The only animals it doesn't work with is birds. In my experience there's no...

So last year we were reached out to by someone who represented a company that created videos promoting small companies that used Amazon. I don't actually know how they found us, but I think it might have been when I applied for a small business grant through them. We didn't get the grant, but what we got was even cooler. It involved working with a professional film company that had a lot of experience making videos like this, commercials, working in tv and film, to lend their equipment and...

A few weeks ago a kind and ambitious volunteer from Contra Costa Animal Services reached out to us to inquire about us donating some grooms, either mobile where we come to them, or in our downtown Martinez location. I jumped at the chance. Soon after that we were looped in with the Outreach Coordinator Steve, and he looped us in with more staff who were determined to make it happen. On February 28th our groomer Phil drove our grooming van over to 4800 Imhoff Place, Martinez and after...