Meet Axel. This is him doing what he does best—sleeping. He loves me and gets moody if he misses out on sitting in my lap while I drink my first cup of coffee every morning, but he’s not too fond of other people. He drools when I pet him. I’ve never had a cat do […]
An Opossum in Fiction: Janet W. Ferguson’s The Art of Rivers
I’ve had cats and dogs in my novels, even a hairless cat, but in The Art of Rivers, I wanted to have a more unusual pet. I asked my good friend who is a veterinarian for suggestions. She had a friend with a possum. (Technically, they are opossums, but in Mississippi with don’t say or […]
Pets in Fiction plus Giveaway
Aren’t pets wonderful? How many of you fell in love with the dog, Barnabas, or the cat, Violet, in Jan Karon’s Mitford Series? I did. I could just picture the large dog pulling the pastor down the streets of Mitford. Or what about the vaporous dog, Friday, from Lisa Wingate’s The Story Keeper? Wasn’t he […]