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Roxy

Cutie Pie, left, adores Sweetie Pie, right.

Who’s your best friend?

That’s the line we run every week in our “Man and Beast” series in The Dallas Post. In case you aren’t familiar with it, “Man and Beast” features pets or animals from the Back Mountain. We’ve had everything from cute puppies and cats to horses from The Lands at Hillside Farms.

I’m a pet owner and my pets are practically my children. My sister and I have two rabbits- Cutie Pie, 8, a Netherland Dwarf, and Sweetie Pie, 7, who is also some sort of a mixed dwarf. We also have a dog, Roxy, 7, who is a purebred Cairn Terrier (the same breed as Toto from “The Wizard of Oz”).

Cutie Pie came from the Bloomsburg Fair. A girl had purchased him without her mother’s consent and her mom made her sell him. I wasn’t at the fair that day, but Cute Man was probably the best $10 my mom ever spent. Sweetie, or “The Sweets,” was purchased from a pet store. She has had multiple surgeries for facial abscesses by Lynn D' Alessandro at Creekside Animal Hospital in Beaumont. The doctor also saved her from what we presume was a nasty urinary tract infection.

Roxy looks a lot like Rudy, a male Cairn Terrier from Orange who ran in the series months ago. She was once featured in an employee newsletter from Rita’s Italian Ices, where my sister works. In the photo my sister submitted, Roxy had a Rita’s cup in her mouth. If one of us leaves a little custard or Italian Ice in the bottom of the cup for her, she’ll take it and run with it. Usually, she finishes it in the living room.

Due to the fact many people are on vacation or poolside in the summer months, we’re getting low on our “Man and Beast” submissions. I know plenty of you have pets you adore and would love to have in the newspaper. I always see dogs being walked and cats in windows in the Back Mountain. I’m sure there are also many horses, rabbits, lizards, hamsters and snakes.

We want to feature your Back Mountain pets! Tell us your name and address, your pet’s name, his or her age, his or her breed and anything else you’d like us to know about your pet. E-mail the information and photo to news@mydallaspost.com. Or, send it by snail mail to: “Man and Beast”, c/o The Dallas Post, 15 North Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711.

I can’t wait to see your pets!

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