I read one blog which used to be independent and which moved over to iVillage: "This Fish Needs a Bicycle."

Other than that, I don't pay much attention to it; then again, I'm not exactly the target audience.

I don't have much good to say about ivillage. They bought out a baby website I spent a lot of time on years and years ago. And they ruined it. I've never been impressed with anything else they have there when I've wound up there via a link. I don't see what NBC is getting, but okay...it's their $600M!

Glad Abbye is coping ok with it and glad you guys made it through the weekend! (it's probably one of those things that get better with time!).

Better means easier (when refering to medication).

Jennifer, as near as I could tell, about all iVillage might do now is save a trip to the grocery store checkout aisle; all the links seem to be lifted from various "women's magazines," some of which are more, um, edifying than others. But, like Chaz, I'm not their target demo.

Rachel, I understood what you meant. And you're right; we'll adjust to it. I'll have to get a thicker skin (and hope Abbye's gets thinner!). I just hate the thought that she'll start associating our touch with an unpleasant experience, but I don't know of any way to make shots pleasant.

I think ivillage may have been a good idea at the beginning, but they began to believe their own press . . . I haven't been in a couple of years, and I *am* their target demographic. Good luck to the new owners. Hope you've figured in the impact of bloggers and the links they provide. . .

My Molly sends best wishes to Abbye and says that if Abbye needs a seeing eye dog that Molly will do a shift!

Susan, thanks for weighing in about iVillage. I suppose there's a little hubris involved with any website that claims to represent half the population of the earth. That seems to run counter to the conventional wisdom of seeking out a niche and becoming the "go-to" resource for whatever that might be.

And thanks for conveying Molly's best wishes and offer! I don't think Abbye is satisfied thus far with our performances as seeing-eye people, so we may have to take Molly up on her offer. ;-)

Love the Milk Bone box, and Abbye's stage name...clever. :-)

The daily shots will hopefully grow easier each day...my sister has to do the same for her cat, but then she's a nurse by trade, so it is probably easier for her. Our vet always laughs and administers a hug and a treat after giving our dogs shots, so they enjoy going to see the doctor. I'm sure Abbye's getting plenty of hugs and treats, but give her a hug for me too. Poor thing.

I'd never heard of iVillage...and one look tells me I won't be back. I agree...it has all the look and feel of those tabloids/magazines in the grocery store aisle. It's funny how when the media tries to appeal to all of one gender or another, they always stoop to the lowest common denominator and stereotype of the gender...and it's not just women...check out the Men's Channel on tee vee...just bad. :-\

...but then she's a nurse by trade, so it is probably easier for her.

Don't cats have looser skin, as well? (I haven't been around cats very much.) Even though Abbye has lost some weight, it's hard to find loose skin under which to inject the insulin...without going to the same spot over and over. Plus, her regenerating hair is a mixed blessing, making it more difficult to see the skin to begin with. It's always something, isn't it?

Our vet always laughs...

I dunno. He sounds like a sadist to me. ;-)

...check out the Men's Channel...

There's a Men's Channel? Why wasn't I notified? Did I forget to re-register or something? It sounds very classy.

I figured the Men's Channel would actually be a whole series of channels that cycles around, none of which staying on the screen for more than 10 seconds. (Is that a stereotype...or simply stating the obvious?)

I've been wondering for ages now why Abbye hasn't ever been a canine model. Some of those random Abbye photos look like the kind of quality stuff they use for doggy chow ads in the fliers.

That's a subtle compliment to the photographer as well, btw.

Glad things are looking up with her.

Gotta love iVillage. It's... it's... it's Cosmo Online!

They need five pages worth of articles to figure out What Guys Want. They're kidding themselves. The average woman knows exactly what the average man wants. :D

That's a subtle compliment to the photographer as well, btw.

Thanks, but you should see what I can do with a good camera. Well, actually nothing more than I can do with my so-so camera. As you recognize, it's all about the model. ;-)

Yeah, I wondered about the laughing. :-\ But the dogs seem to think it means he couldn't have possibly done whatever it was that just hurt. But then they give *us* the evil eye.

The other thing about cats is, well, it's just easier. ;-) I'm more of a dog lover myself.

We only recently got cable and are discovering all sorts of things we didn't know existed...the Men's Channel is only one of them. There IS another channel that is a single screen shot of 6 or 8 different channels (combine this with picture-in-picture and whoa...maybe that's the Real Men's Channel that you describe). ;-) But none of the Men's Channels talk about What Women Want. They're all about monster trucks and killing stuff.

Honey, we females have always had one type or 'nuther internet!

Reincarnations include: the back fence, the beauty parlor, the laundromat, or PTA, to name a few.

Love the pic of Abbye on the snack box. I clicked on the link thinking that it would be hours of fun, but quickly realised that it required a mailing address and what not, so I think I'm going to steal their pic and superimpose a cute doggy pic too.

Poor Abbye. Hope the insulin shots gets less traumatic with time... Hope she isn't too bothered with the loss of sight.

I've never heard of ivillage. I'm visiting it for the first time on your "recommendation", but don't think I'll go back there.

Looking forward to the next weekend already...

Ern, I was the same way about the packaging site, thinking that I could try out some alternative photos and packaging online, like you can do at CafePress. Then I realized that this is really a corporate promotion site, not something for individuals to have fun with. Too bad.

We managed to do the last two injections without any flinches or whimpering, so one or both of us is getting better at it, and she's starting to get more confidence in walking outside on a leash, which is good.

Thanks for stopping by!