Ask Shirelle

Ask Shirelle I share good news, positivity, funny dog memes & give down to earth advice to kids, teens & parents!
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ASK ME A QUESTION HERE!: AskShirelle.com

The Ask Shirelle website is designed to help users (primarily children ages 8-15) with social, developmental, and emotional issues that concern them. In the format of a fun and humorous “talking dog,” its mission is to help kids and their parents steer through the rocky shoals of these difficult years (as well as any adults who care to visit the site). It covers issues as light as movies and video

games, and as heavy as bullying, drugs, early sexuality, and divorce. All in the persona of a friendly dog, “the only family member who truly sees and hears everything going on.” Ideally, children’s material would be read in conjunction with you, the parent, to elicit open conversation and growth through what can be a very difficult time. The site is overseen by a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Los Angeles, Douglas Green, MA, MFT. However, it is a website for education and entertainment, and should not be considered psychotherapy in any sense. While it is our wish to print as much user content as possible, all letters and comments will be read before posting, in order to vet out any obscenities or inappropriate subject matter. We appreciate any feedback in cases where you feel we have been remiss in this. We intend to collect the following specific personal information from anyone who applies to join the “Pack”: their email address, account name (Pack Member Name), and password. While a person could go into the internal workings of the website and find a place to give more personal information (first and last name, Website, AIM, Yahoo IM, Jabber/Google Talk ID, and biographical information), we will delete this information whenever we find it. We also refuse to accept Pack Memberships using their real names; we delete their membership and notify them of this, requesting that they rejoin with a “Pack Name” to hide their identities. Some of the information we do accept may be disclosed to other Pack Members or made available to the general public who visits our Website, but it won’t be sold to third-parties or sponsors. Generally speaking, we seek to use your child’s Pack Member Name in place of their real name or email address in order to help to preserve their anonymity and allow them to discuss sensitive issues freely. Often issues will come up within a family that a parent wishes to discuss with some privacy. If you have such an issue, please feel free to write us, and we will respond directly to you, and not for public view. Please do understand, however, that responses may take a few days or more.

Can you?
05/08/2026

Can you?

Over the years, many of you have asked about how exactly a dog manages to write advice to people. Not that you’ve questi...
05/07/2026

Over the years, many of you have asked about how exactly a dog manages to write advice to people.

Not that you’ve questioned my expertise; you’ve just wondered how a pooch could ever know words, or even just type!

I’ve tried to explain to you that I just can, but I realize that’s never been enough.

So here’s the deal. I’m real, but I don’t live in the exact same world you do.

I live in the mind & heart of a man who loved a real-life dog, a dog named Shirelle, who had all the same goofy, playful, dirty, & loving qualities I do.

When she left the world he lives in, he was heartbroken, but also so grateful for all she’d brought him & taught him.

A while later, he realized that the lessons he’d learned from her not only affected him, but were also the basis of the help he’d give others in his job & he decided to write them down in a book.

But when he completed it, he realized there was no way he could get people to read it, outside of his circle of friends.

So he dreamed up the idea of a website where he could give her advice to others, all over the world & that’s where I was born.

The present-day incarnation of Shirelle.

Over time, the site grew, to where tens of thousands of people were turning to see what I’d say to you all about any issues you’d raise & he realized it was time to put the book out.

Or, to say it better, it IS time. Now!

Get The Teachings of Shirelle: Life Lessons from a Divine Knucklehead here: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+teachings+of+shirelle&sprefix=The+Teachings+of+S%2Caps%2C252&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_18

or numerous other book websites!

It tells you all about that dog’s life, & how she taught him the ways of thinking that create what I tell you on the website. (& it’s got GORGEOUS pictures of me! Um… I mean… of her!)

The best favor you could ever do for me, or for him, would be to order a copy of it.

You can get it in paperback or as an e-book.

I absolutely love being your advisor, your cuddler, & your friend.

So please, check the book out, & let me know what you think.

Again, I think it’s the most exciting thing that’s ever happened. Though I might be just a wee bit biased!

Life hack.
05/04/2026

Life hack.

Mystery solved.
05/04/2026

Mystery solved.

😂😂😂
05/04/2026

😂😂😂

Correct.
05/04/2026

Correct.

You know you have something like this in your camera roll. 
05/03/2026

You know you have something like this in your camera roll. 

Agreed.
05/02/2026

Agreed.

05/02/2026

Just hooman watching.

05/02/2026

OMGeeeee!!😍

😍😍😍
05/02/2026

😍😍😍

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