Welcome to Miss Sandy Hobb's web page!

This Christmas, I was on my way to Phoenix when a coyote ran in front of my car.
The place was a rest stop called Hobbs Wash, in southern Utah...
out in the middle of nowhere, north of Monument Valley. The wash happened to be about ten minutes from where I found two kittens in 1992.
They were a brother and sister act, who I named Bugs and Bunny.

After I saw the dog run in front if me, I realized she was a scared little puppy and not a wild coyote.
I turned around and came back, then spent about 20 minutes coaxing her off the sandstone where she was cowering. Someone had kicked her and broken her jaw.

She devoured the bread and yoghurt I gave her!

Another picture of her surroundings at Hobbs Wash.

The next day, she's at peace in Paradise Valley, Arizona
(who wouldn't be at peace in PV?)

In her new collar and tag, going home to Wyoming!

Click on the photo below to see Sandy, while TORI AMOS sings to her on the road!

And here's a pic of the brother and sister kittens I found in 1992 (outside Mexican Hat, UT)
Bugs (cause he had ticks in his ears) and Bunny (the astro kitty) had been taken to the dump to die and were about to be killed on the highway. Bugs already had been hit by a car and had a broken leg and Bunny was playing with him... to keep him alive. I miss them. They were both taken by coyotes (in 1996 and 1999).

In my upcoming novel, when the last character wakes up at THE EDGE OF HEAVEN, it's the animals he saved during his life who wake him up, licking his face... then they go play with each other as he confronts his fate. Bugs and Bunny will have some playmates, Sandy (my new dog) and Peabody (a terrier who died in my arms after some bastard in a pickup ran him over in West Laramie... and kept on going).

Now she's got a happy home!

Yea, just ask my friends!