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August 27, 2017
Meet Steve. He's the cat, by the way. The old horse he's riding is Tanner. Sometime last year, Steve jumped from a tree onto Tanner's back. Shocked the hell out me. Tanner, too, but that old boy has the patience of Job and accepted his new passenger with a swish of h...
November 18, 2016
Tanner and Boss
All of us horse owners have been there. We tell someone we own horses, and invariably we get told the story of someone’s first ride on a...
November 8, 2016
This is going to be a difficult post to write. Last Thursday, November 3rd, Rae had a seizure. I feel terribly guilty, for I was on the phone with my sister, distracted, and heard the noise under my desk but didn't look. A cat messing around, I suspected. I finally did...
October 29, 2016
I'm familiar with caring for animals. I'm familiar with feline abscesses, injuries, most illnesses, and any number of feline or equine problems. I've had a cat in the past with liver issues: Chip. Gnawed on a plant I had and screwed up his liver. I gave him sub-cutaneo...
October 29, 2016
Rae's vet, Dr. Fransik called. After her latest bloodwork the previous Monday, it appeared her liver enzymes and inflammation had gone up rather than gone down. We'd been giving her hepatic support tablets and milk thistle, and the antibiotics fixed her bladder and kid...
October 21, 2016
After sweating and waiting for the Interfuron to arrive, I watched Rae's progress with worry. The Prednesone gave her an increased appetite and the jaundice went away. I began to feel better about her progress. Dr. Fransik gave me a recipe for all the cats, but I hadn'...
September 29, 2016
Hello, everyone!
Permit me to inform you of me, a quick there and gone biography of, you guessed it! Of moi. I'm A. Katie Rose, author of "In a Wolf's Eyes", my debut epic fantasy novel. I also wrote the second of the "Saga of the Black Wolf series, "Catch a Wolf", new...
September 27, 2016
For this post, I thought I’d offer up a scene from “Catch a Wolf” that I really liked writing, but decided it really wasn’t right for the book or Ly’Tana. So I rewrote the scene into what was published, making Ly’Tana murderously angry but not totally out of her mind....