by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
I have a little 6.5 pound black and white Imerial Shih Tzu. She was born 10/23/23. I got her 12/30/23. It was love at first sight when I went to check out the 2 puppies left in the litter. She was the runt. And weighed in at about 2 1/4 pounds when I got her. I had...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 12, 2025 | Aging, Comfort, pets, Uncategorized, writing
My little Bitsy Shih Tzu is so smart…she makes me laugh! I decided she and I would share a diced apple for breakfast, one of our usual travel treats. And I thought, “I’ll just start with the apple bits here at the kitchen table to give her the two syringes of cardio...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
I saw this post today on social media “Memories”…. (From 8/31/2012 CBB) “We have a little one-eyed kitty we adopted in January of this year named Minnie. She got an injury to the cornea of her good eye and has been at the veterinarian now for a week in an attempt to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 29, 2024 | pets, principal of replacement
3/29:2017 Bill observed a scene in a TV series in which one character after being jailed unjustly and released said, “Sanity was touch and go there for a while.” He laughed and said, “I can relate. Here I am 6’5″, 250 lbs. and I have felt...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 6, 2022 | memories, pets
A memory from August, 6, 2021, the first anniversary of Bill’s death; This was our little Daisy beagle. She was adopted by our daughter’s family in 2014 and was about 3 years old, having been rescued in Mississippi by a beagle rescue organization. They...