Pets

Joe Gauthier, former K-9 handler for the City of Cut Bank, will be having Dog Obedience Classes this weekend. The classes will be held behind the high school bus barns by A.J. School & the tennis courts on the northwest side of Cut Bank from 1 until 4 both this Saturday & Sunday...

World-renowned animal expert Jack Hanna, better known as "Jungle Jack", is on his way to Great Falls to present his program Tuesday, August 14th at 7 o'clock at the Mansfield Center and the infamous Norma Ashby is joining me on the Puffman Show tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon at 4:35 to share the details of Hanna's Great Falls visit...

Mark Daniels isn't in the Air Chair this morning. But don't worry - you won't miss your favorite morning man! He's on the Road at the Marias Fair, and he's got company. We'll be bringing you all the news, weather, sports and swap from the Marias Fair for the rest of the week and we'll have some guest broadcasters...

Bluegrass On The Bay returns for the 10th year in a row this Saturday night down in Great Falls and the infamous Suzy Bogguss is headlining the affair. It's a blast every year and besides Suzy, special guest performers include Sierra Hull and the Farewell Drifters...

I think many of us still like to read the "old school" way...that's right, NOT off a danged computer screen, but a good old hardbound book with pages and chapters you can actually hold and feel in your hands. Nothing beats it in my opinion. Our Toole County Friends of the Library have scheduled a book sale this Thursday and Friday here in Shelby...

You don't have to tell me about dinosaurs...I'm often been called one by my younger colleagues! I'm even older than my friend Jim Anderson down at Grizzly Sports in Choteau! Speaking of Choteau, the grand opening of the Two Medicine Dinosaur Learning Center over in Bynum is set for this Saturday...

Havre First Presbyterian Church Pastor John Bruington, will be joining me this afternoon (Monday) at 4:35 on the Puffman Show to talk some "horse sense" and also sharesome of his recently published book, "Out Our Way: Theology Under the Saddle"...

This afternoon (Friday) on Puffman Musical Trivia, I'm giving away a beautiful presentation just in time for Mother's Day weekend. The book is "Dear Photograph" by Taylor Jones. This hardcover from William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers just went on sale nationwide on Tuesday (5/8) and it's already proven to be a stunning visual compilation that includes more than 140 neve

I think one of the best things about doing radio here in the Golden Triangle, in rural Montana, is truly serving the wants and needs of our local listeners. This is what broadcasting has always been about and it still rings true to this day in Shelby, Montana...

We finished reading "The Place of Belonging" last evening at the Marias Heritage Center and we're already into "Montana Moments-History on the Go". It's a neat read written by Ellen Baumler. Ellen's the interpretive historian for the Montana Historical Society in Helena and the pages of her tome overflow with enjoyable historical vignettes that cover nearly everything important

Libraries are something that we are all blessed with as Americans, and here in Shelby, we are most fortunate to have the services of the Toole County Library. Sometimes I like to say that the library building is "the building with the most stories in town"...

No, it's not that old Charley Pride tune, it's a "snake report" that I received this morning (Thursday) here at the Puffman Blog desk. Tony, the infamous Snake Man and his wife were out at the dens last Sunday on the Gollehon place east of Brady, out there on Hell's Gulch Road...