Yes, Brian and I are those people – we get our dogs gifts for Christmas, we celebrate their birthdays and we dress them up for Halloween. We’re also suckers for getting them toys that correspond with holidays… toys for St. Patrick’s Day? Fourth of July? Thanksgiving? Sure, why not!? Valentine’s Day is included, too, of course, so we were thrilled [...]

Over the holidays I was thinking about how December is usually the time of year that many people seek out ways to help the needy or open their wallets to charities. We are celebrating, spending and consuming probably more than any other time of year, and it makes us stop and think about how we can help those less fortunate. [...]

As a kid, I always dreamed of a white Christmas. Living in New England, it wouldn’t seem like a stretch, but I don’t really remember very many snowy Christmases. This year we got a white day(s)-after-Christmas, and since I’m the girlfriend of a man with a plow… I now understand that snowstorms (excuse me, blizzards) mean that I won’t see [...]

It seems like just yesterday that I was saying it was too early for radio stations to be playing holiday music. And now the the holiday season is almost over! I usually love the holidays, but this year I have found it difficult to get 100% into the holiday spirit. With Sethy being sick (which makes me worry), the sharing [...]

Photo credit: Julie Furtado I would like to thank everyone who has commented on my post about Sethy, asked me how he is doing, or done something extremely kind and thoughtful (I’m talking to you, Julie!) since we found out that he has bone cancer. I guess I sometimes forget that there are many people out there who care about [...]

A few months ago, I woke up to Sethy sleeping soundly on the floor next to my bed, as always. When he got up to come downstairs with me, I noticed he wasn’t putting pressure on his back left leg. Concerned, of course, I called Brian because he had let the dogs out earlier that morning, before he left for [...]

Years ago, in the late ’80s, after skiing for many winters in Rangeley, Maine, my parents decided to take us kids there for a summer vacation. They loved spending winter weeks and weekends with us in that little town, and had heard that the summertime was equally appealing. I was about 8 years old and I didn’t particularly love traveling [...]

I was introduced to Hug Me Up several weeks ago, before the site officially launched, and I was immediately struck by the beautiful simplicity of its name. And shortly after, when I saw what the products looked like online and got know Kim, Hug Me Up founder, I really felt Kim’s passion and vision. So it came as no surprise [...]

FIDO Friendly blogger (and friend of Mom Generations) Carol Bryant was interviewed by Gayle King for the Gayle King Show on Oprah Radio: Dog chat Check out the great interview here! For more FIDO Friendly content, subscribe to the magazine at www.fidofriendly.com and visit the blog at http://blog.fidofriendly.com.

I don’t remember his name. I don’t remember his face. I don’t remember what I said when he knocked on our door. I only vaguely remember talking to him the night before. I had called him on the way home from the emergency vet, where they had told us our Bismarck’s cancer had spread to his liver and his spleen, [...]