Author: Ari

It’s with an unbearable sadness and a very heavy heart that I share that today, Toby crossed over the Rainbow Bridge. His full, government-issued name was Tobias Underfoot Stuber—a title he earned via his Hobbit heritage as well as the fact that he was, well, always underfoot — but he generously always answered to “Toby.”…

Chiquita Chiquita, Chix, Chiquita Banana, the Banana she answered to them all until 3/07/26 at 11:45am when she went over the Rainbow Bridge. Fifteen years after she first came home to me in Buffalo, NY, looking like a miniature pit bull puppy; still on formula and needing her tooshie wiped to go potty. She was…

I first met Theo at the SPCA’s holiday windows at Macy’s in downtown San Francisco.  I wasn’t sure yet if I was ready to adopt yet after losing my previous cat a few months earlier, but I stopped by to admire the kittens in the windows, then ventured inside to the backstage adoption center, where…

Pancake grew up in Seattle and first came into my life at the Seattle Animal Shelter. He was very friendly and immediately approached me to give me an affectionate headbutt the first time I met him then. We spent five years in Seattle, where he loved sitting by the window to watch for birds, before…