All Pets are Off

A collection of Tim Rowland's warm and funny animal columns, collected through the years as animals have come and gone throughout his writing years.

Of all the columns Tim Rowland writes, the ones that always get the biggest response are those about animals. Maybe it’s not too surprising that people pick critters over politicians: the animals are more intelligent and, on a per-pound basis, cost less to feed. ALL PETS ARE OFF is a comical collection of those warm and funny columns, collected through the years as animals have come and gone through Tim’s writing years, including his uneasy existences with Bubba the cat, the Jack Russell terrier named Jake Biscuit, various other creatures large and small and his latest charge, Opie, a buoyant Bouvier des Flandres.

Tim Rowland is an award-winning columnist at Herald-Mail Media in Hagerstown, Maryland. He has written for numerous history and outdoor magazines and news syndicates nationwide. He has also authored several books, most recently TIM ROWLAND'S CREATURE FEATURES, and including ALL PETS ARE OFF: A COLLECTION OF HAIRY COLUMNS; STRANGE AND OBSCURE STORIES OF THE CIVIL WAR; PETRIFIED FACT: STORIES OF BIZARRE BEHAVIOR THAT REALLY HAPPENED, MOSTLY; EARTH TO HAGERSTOWN; HIGH PEAKS: A HISTORY OF HIKING THE ADIRONDACKS FROM NOAH TO NEOPRENE and MARYLAND’S APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS: MASSACRES, MOONSHINE & MOUNTAINEERING. Tim is also keeper and lackey for a wide assortment of mostly non-useful, freeloading critters, aided as always by his trusty (well, mostly trusty) companion Opie.