Valentine's Day: February 2011 Archives
The pet industry has all kinds of fun gifts you can get for your pets to celebrate Valentine's Day. But sometimes a simple gesture is the most appreciated (by the owner, anyway).
Cheryl, an editor friend in Tennessee -- and the owner of Misten, a beautiful rough collie -- found this sheep card stock while she was gathering crafts supplies to make cards for the young girls in her church and immediately thought of Tess and Cowboy, my border collies.
So my dogs actually got their very own Valentine in the mail:

They don't get a lot of personal mail. So this was a very unexpected surprise.





Daily Breeze reporter Donna Littlejohn has shared her homes with a succession of wonderful, funny, and occasionally difficult canines -- Muffin, Fritz, Ellie, Mercy, Pilgrim and now Cowboy, an Australian shepherd-border collie, and Tess, a border collie. From strong-willed terriers to weirdly obsessed Australian shepherds, they've invaded her world with boundless energy, wet noses, muddy paws and soggy tennis balls. But they've really brought so much more than that -- like laughter and joy, some unexpected life lessons, and more than a few tears along the way.
Josh Grossberg grew up with the usual array of animals: goldfish, dogs, hamsters, parakeets and turtles. He now owns the loudest dog in the South Bay(