About Me - the Author!

ThoughtsFurPaws.com is about my experiences with anything and everything pets. Some people call me a fanatic - and I happen to know there are lots of me out there.

I hope to share the education I’ve obtained through owning and training pets my whole life, and working with multiple local shelters, county humane societies, national animal welfare organizations and state divisions of wildlife.

I also hope to bring light-hearted stories and musings about my beloved pets to light, and to make some purr-fectly pet-loving friends!

I have two Golden Retrievers, Benson and Gibson. We also have three cats - all rescues, named Nickodemus (from The Secret of Nimh movie), Theodore and Sasha. Tune in for special stories about these special pets.

If I MUST choose between dogs and cats - the age old question among us pet bloggers - I just couldn’t do it. There are too many sides to the coin and too few ways to flip it.

Throughout my life I have brought home every kind of four-legged friend you can imagine, starting when I was about 5 my Mother told me: frogs, turtles, lizards (in CA), stray cats and dogs, other peope’s cats and dogs, rabbits, fish (okay so they don’t have four legs), and a variety of rodents (including a white dairy farm rat - don’t ask). I seem to have a sign on my forehead that only animals can read that says, “You Will Be Safe Here.”

Anyhow, I currently am an avid volunteer, and donate in-kind and in giving to the Animal Protective League (APL), the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), Defenders of Wildlife (DOW), the United States Humane Society (USHS) and various local shelters.

To contact me, please email ThoughtsFurPaws@gmail.com