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Ask Strider: This week, two of our advice columnist’s readers are down and discouraged. But fear not! Strider the Dog is there for them — and you.
July 16, 2024
Ask Strider: This week, two of our advice columnist’s readers are down and discouraged. But fear not! Strider the Dog is there for them — and you.
Ask Strider: This week, Strider luxuriates in readers’ happiness and compliments, as well as being able to answer a question giving him a chance to remind pet guardians to keep their dogs safe from the fear of fireworks this Fourth of July season.
Ask Strider: This week the former street dog’s theme is happiness. Two readers want to know how to get it, one wants to get an unhappy sibling off her case, and finally, one wants to know if Strider has a favorite song. And as a matter of fact, he does!
Ask Strider: This week, the dog about town answers questions about his friendship with a cedar tree. And he relishes his memory of the one place he still dreams about going, the day Tod forgot to wear her Bogs.
Ask Strider: This week, the dog about town is astonished by the coincidence of him and a reader’s dog having the same favorite toy. And he is bowled over by the love another reader shows for her traumatized rescue dog.
Ask Strider: In which donkeys want to gorge on treats as much as the next animal. Strider points out that there are limits, no matter how many pieces of duck jerky from Bi-Mart he believes he can eat without danger. Also, there’s a suspicious letter from someone claiming to be “a normal dog from Southern Oregon.” Hhhhmmm.
Ask Strider: This week, those Ashland cats are back, asking advice about letting strangers into their lives, and letting food cutbacks in too. As usual, Strider tries his best to help another species.
Ask Strider: This week, an alert reader gives a great reminder about keeping dogs safe and out of hot cars. And Strider helps another reader think about the best way to ease their dog’s journey over the rainbow bridge.
Ask Strider: This week, the exciting news that Ashland.news crossword editor, Steve Weyer, has created the first ever crossword just for dogs. And Strider tries not to be miffed that a reader wonders about where to find a great dog. Also, the Dog About Town points out even though Ashland.news isn’t available in hard copy (yet), we always have “Sneak Preview.” It’s just a coincidence that “Sneak Preview” happens to have a “Profile” page that Strider would love to be featured on. Honest.
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Ask Strider: A worried older brother asks our advice columnist’s advice. And a dog’s guardian wants to know if there is any hope getting their hat-hating dog to calm down. As always, Strider tries to give words that help!
After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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