Where the contented buffalo roams
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Steve Sanchez and his children first noticed the buffalo at Pend Oreille Farms last spring, during their regular commute on Highway 200 from the east side of the county...
Category: Pets & Animals
The dogs of Goat Mountain
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff I spend an inordinate amount of time cursing Facebook groups. They often become cesspools of pointless gripes and angry shouting into the void. Keyboard warriors thrive in these environments...
Do dogs dream?
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Book in hand, bedside lamp on, dog curled up on my legs — this is my bedtime routine. My nearly 2-year-old border heeler, Mac, forms a tightly-wound ball with...
The Oregon Coast, where the skies didn’t reign but dogs did
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor This article is mainly for Sandpoint dogsters. What is a Sandpoint dogster? It is a citizen who couldn’t imagine walking in a park or on Mickinnick or Pend Oreille...
Evans Brothers hosts second annual PAS fundraiser in honor of Erik Bruhjell
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Erik Bruhjell was someone everyone wanted to be around. That he’s not around, having died in a car collision in July 2018, continues to be deeply felt by those...
Christmas Bird Count, 120 years in the making
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Prior to the turn of the 20thcentury, a holiday tradition known as the Christmas “Side Hunt” was popular among hunters. Participants would choose sides and go afield with their...
Sick situation
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff As hunters hit the mountains this fall on their annual mission to fill their freezers, many harbored a concern that the meat they harvested might be tainted by chronic...
Boar-barians at the gate
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff As Winston Churchill reportedly once said, “Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig! He looks you in the eye and treats you...
Wentworth, master thief
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Somewhere on the dark, quiet streets of south Sandpoint, Wentworth the cat is on the prowl, searching for another pair of flip-flops to steal. The sandal-stealing feline, owned by...
Raising Robin Rick
By Jodi Rawson Reader Contributor Day 1 My youngest son, Enoch, is an animal whisperer and he insisted that we rescue a bird one evening. Thinking that it was injured beyond repair and would...
