Petsies Will Delight Your Kids and Alarm Your Pets
Make a custom version of your pet for National Pet Week!
Continue ReadingMake a custom version of your pet for National Pet Week!
Continue ReadingBreak out the Kleenex. Patricia shares her own military homecomings and features YouTube videos of some of the best ones to hit you right in the feels as a way to honor our veterans.
Continue ReadingThe name underneath the Rescue dog’s picture was “Harley Quinn.” How could a GeekMom resist that?
Continue ReadingWe’ve all seen the plethora of Star Wars related merchandise flood the market several months before The Force Awakens hit theaters, and I was the first to throw up my hands and say, “Enough already!” Sorry but oranges have nothing to do with BB-8! However, the Petco line of Star Wars goods for pets is actually a perfect use of the license.
Continue ReadingIn winter, my big hairy dog wears his thick coat…
Continue ReadingIf it can rain cats and dogs…
Continue ReadingMy dog Minton once ate my entire supply of shuttlecocks…
Continue ReadingWhere do you find a dog with no legs?
Continue ReadingOur local police just cited a dog for giving birth to puppies at the side of the road…
Continue ReadingOur dog Monty just ate a score of Scrabble tiles…
Continue ReadingThe must-have piece of art for every geek’s game room.
Continue ReadingInteractive and silly, This Book Just Ate My Dog! will be a winner for a younger read aloud.
Continue ReadingThis upcoming WiFi-enabled device is designed to educate and entertain your pet.
Continue ReadingDeath is one of life’s unavoidable topics and one that’s often accompanied by tears, confusion, or fear. We share some tips and advice for talking to your kids about the loss of a pet.
Continue ReadingSummer vacation is here! Or, it is looming in the not-so-distant future. Either way, kids are getting edgy and are requesting video suggestions to keep them entertained for a few minutes. So, this week’s video playlist features videos the GeekMom writers’ kids enjoy.
Continue ReadingThe kids being the remote control for the family TV went full circle in my home recently – with a few modern twists that I never had to deal with as the one called on to get off the couch …
Continue ReadingEvery once in a while you get a puzzle handed to you. This week I was at the scum hole the city of Boulder, Colorado, calls the dog swimming “beach,” and a guy with a black lab said that his …
Continue ReadingRemember last Super Bowl’s awesome Volkswagen Passat commercial with the little kid dressed as Darth Vader? Well, they’ve managed to put together a very worthy successor to it, this time for the Beetle. Be sure to watch all the way …
Continue ReadingEarlier this month, GeekMom Kris Bordessa wrote about the story of a Michigan woman, Julie Bass, who was being prosecuted for having a front yard garden. The Bass family put in the garden after their lawn had to be torn up due to a sewer line that needed to be repaired. I’ve been following Julie […]
Continue ReadingAs dictated by Sweetness Makice April 1, 2011 | 3:12 pm (dog time) | Favorite things: Squirrels I don’t have an iPhone, but I know where to get one. When the humans are asleep, I wake up to play a …
Continue ReadingFrom the dawn of time to the end of the universe, the one thing Man (as in humanity) can depend upon is his best friend, the dog. A dog’s devotion is unwavering, their loyalty unfaltering (except, perhaps, in the presence …
Continue ReadingOur humans are funny creatures. There’s the sitting, the eating, the sleeping, the scratching. We’ve trained them to come when we need something and they carry the bags during our walk — those opposable thumbs are good for something. But …
Continue ReadingTalk about an amazing race. The Iditarod dog sled competition, which started Saturday, stretches more than a thousand miles from Anchorage to Nome, crossing some of the toughest terrain in the world under some of the harshest conditions on the planet. Mushers come from all over the world to compete, but, at its heart, the […]
Continue ReadingIs it the eleventh hour and you still have no costume for the kiddos? No worries! Those brown bags from the grocery store come in handy for all kinds of things, but this time of year they’re the go-to material for last-minute Halloween costumes. You can have any of these costumes ready to wear in […]
Continue ReadingSo Easter is almost a week into our past; yet I’m still reeling over an event that happened in our area just before the holiday. An Easter-egg hunt. For dogs. We’ve got a great dog. He’s a rescue from a …
Continue Reading“It’s a very weird book for me. And I like it because it’s hilarious. It’s about this boy who really wants a dog, but he gets a guinea pig who acts totally like a dog. That’s why it’s called Guinea …
Continue ReadingI remember several years ago while visiting Taiwan seeing all sorts of “The Dog” products everywhere: they featured extreme-closeup photos of dogs with really big noses and tiny bodies on pure white backgrounds. Cute, but kind of weird. Well, the …
Continue ReadingMy wife and I must have gone to four different places and searched the web for hours to try and find some way of flea dipping our Labrador retriever. While we were at the last agriculture supply store deciding if …
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