Lucky Garvin

LUCKY GARVIN: Saying Goodbye To Lola

Our Lola appears to be deep in sleep on her favorite corner of the sofa, her head resting on out-stretched paws. But to our sorrow, this is not sleep. The...

LUCKY GARVIN: THE BREAK-IN  [from years ago]

Darlin’ wife Sabrina is under the delusion that our pet Doberman Onyx is a guard-dog....

LUCKY GARVIN: The Tale Of The Ugly Christmas Tree

All Christmas trees are beautiful aren’t they? My wife, Sabrina, looked at the artificial Christmas...

LUCKY GARVIN: The Driver

It was nearing Christmas this year; a hard-working Mexican-American family man was driving his fully-loaded...

LUCKY GARVIN: 3 Wildlife Memories

While there are sorrows in the rehabbing of injured, orphaned, or diseased wildlife, there are...

The Bittersweet Day

Some weeks ago, we set ‘Big Boy’, our rescued g-hog, free. The time had come. When g-hogs are ready to leave you, they display...

Groundhog Update: Captivity Going Almost Famously for “Big Boy” and “Baby”

What if you were a rehabber of everything feathered and furred? What if you received two groundhogs who preferred inside to outside, and deplored...

Between A Rock and A Tree

My dad was a hard-case -  no doubt. Build a garage, dig a sewage line, whatever it was, he never hired it out; he...