Ask Strider: This week, the dog about town agrees inquiring minds want to know “How about that other dog park?” And then he extols the importance of treats in resolving even the toughest problem.
Ask Strider: This week, a friend of the writer’s needs advice: how to handle a dog who tears up the house when left alone? Strider has a lot of experience with dog anxiety, and he has a lot to say, drawn from his own history.
Ask Strider: This week, Strider has mail! He would blush if he wasn’t a dog at some of the praise, and he gets some snark from readers about the CIA, as well as an unexpected question difficult for a dog to answer on his own — even a dog like Strider.
Ask Strider: This week, Strider comforts a woman nearing retirement. Did she do the wrong thing by following her heart instead of her bank account?
Ask Strider: This week, Strider is confronted with a question about Deep State malfeasance. He points out he is only a dog, and can’t solve the world’s problems. He does know you can have power over something or someone, or you can have love. You can’t have both. And having love is much more fun.
Ask Strider: This week, Ask Strider explains how he got that ear, and soothes the anxieties of two different dog guardians, one with a cranky boyfriend.
Dear Strider: This week, two perplexed pets weigh in with their concerns, giving Strider an opening to warn about Easter chocolate being poison to dogs.
Ask Strider: This week, Strider explores matters of the home, both loving it, and cooking for a dog in it.
Ask Strider: This week, Strider comforts an Ashland wife who wants the joy back in her marriage.
Strider: Even cats want to Ask Strider. This week, two letters from cats whose normal cat behavior with their humans just isn’t delivering the goods.
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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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