Category Archives: Animals

All Creatures Real and Otherwise: Cats Eat Homework?

Posted on June 19, 2013 by
The cat who ate the homework

We’ve all heard of the student who tells the teacher, “The dog ate my homework.” But BVC member Amy Sterling Casil, who teaches writing when she’s not doing it herself, had to explain to her students that her cat ate … Continue reading →


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All Creatures Real and Otherwise: Going to the Dogs

Posted on June 12, 2013 by
Dog reading Nook

On the principle that everyone can use a weekly cute critter break, we’re starting a new series of posts featuring the animal companions of Book View Cafe members along with other creatures we have seen in the wild and not … Continue reading →


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Spanish Exorcist Shortage and Killer Donkeys

Posted on May 25, 2013 by

You’d think in a country with a 25% unemployment rate that filling a job would be easy. Apparently not. Madrid is down to its last exorcist priest and the Catholic archdiocese says it needs more to help cope with the … Continue reading →


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Stalking the Wild Muse: The Muse of the Manure Fork

Posted on May 24, 2013 by
Musemed

A series exploring the props, habits, and drugs that fuel the writer’s productivity. Past, present and future! Look for BVC writers, plus other authors we know and love. When I was in grad school at an Old European University and … Continue reading →


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Horse Yoga Evolves

Posted on May 20, 2013 by
yogabutt_200

We live in a fantasy novel around here. Not always the part with the unicorns and the flowers. Mostly the one with stablehands and pitchforks and bread that needs baking. Once in a while some grimdark. And around just about … Continue reading →


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The Dog, the Mother, and the Dead Whale

Posted on May 11, 2013 by

You may have read this story before, but it’s a good one and worth a second outing. Rank smells – the ranker the better – would drive our dog, Zaphod, nuts. He was drawn to them. He’d roll in them, grinding … Continue reading →


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Music and grief

Posted on May 7, 2013 by

Our elderly and Highly Opinionated tortoiseshell cat, Cleopatra, died recently. She made it to her 20th birthday last month, which astonished us all. Privately, I think she wasn’t about to let the dog outlast her. (Oka, our wonderful German Shepherd … Continue reading →


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Alabaster Horses

Posted on May 6, 2013 by
PookaGarland_bvc

I try, as an all-around horseblogger, to be as breed-neutral as possible. Every breed of horses has its particular kind of wonderfulness, and its particular purpose, and its band of particular, and passionate, adherents. ((And yes, before the chorus strikes … Continue reading →


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Training and Instinct

Posted on April 29, 2013 by
pookabridle_bvc

In the last Horseblog I talked about a particular stallion and his spring rituals. I’ve since been able to catch a short video of his space-claiming process, which I’ve posted here. It comes complete with roll-roll-roll and rearandpawtheAIR. Watching him … Continue reading →


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A Stallion in Spring

Posted on April 15, 2013 by
courtship_bvc (2)

Life on a horse farm is always interesting, but when the farm has all genders represented, it’s just a little bit more interesting in the spring. The English-speaking world has a distinct preference for geldings as riding horses. Entires–mares as … Continue reading →


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