Does anyone know much about dogs......animal magics.......training?  I have a dog, half Lab, half pit bull, a year old female, spayed.  She is driving me NUTS!  I am ready to turn her into a TOAD!  She eats everything but most disturbing, she eats all my books and videos.  She will climb into the book case and drag out books that I think are out of her reach.  I buy her toys.  I buy her bones.  I give her empty peanut butter jars which she loves.  I have to pay for over 70 dollars worth of library books this week because she jumped up to the shelf where I had them in a bag, dragged them out of the bag and destroyed them!   I know labs are late bloomers and stay adolexcent longer than most dogs, but she is out of control!  She is not a stupid dog.  The minute I come in the door from work, I do not have to say one word.  I look at her and she runs and hids.  She knows this is wrong.  Any suggestions?

Merry Meet, this is Athmay, greeting you from 1313 Salem Avenue.  I've been a solitary wiccan all my adult life, and that's quite a long time.  I love family, friends, music and movies.  I live by the river in a rackety old house with two black cats.  My back yard is a gathering place for all sorts of wild creatures....bats, toads, snakes and even a skunk, plus several neighbors from around the Avenue.  

 Salem Avenue is a mythical place where pagan minds meet and talk and where people who are "broom curious" can come to find out how to put a bit of magic in their lives.  I've been doing this podcast for a little over a year now and am having a lot of fun with it.  I like talking about the mystical, the magical and herb and stone lore.  Stones are one of my loves.  I hand craft pagan silver jewerly and have a great time doing it.  Friends began calling on me for advice about metaphysical  needs.......................what stone do I need to wear for strength, or for stress, etc.  That's one of the things that prompted me to start podcasting.  I figured there were lots of people out there who maybe weren't really pagan but still believed in the unusual, the mystical and the magical. 

I have Celtic and Native American roots, so my belief system is a conglomeration of the two cultures.  I believe that magic is merely influencing the possibilities in your life and the way to do that is through attunement with nature and enhancing your spiritual connection to Goddess and God. 

I enjoy meeting new people so if you want to say hello, just do it. 

I gotta fly!