Yesterday was the first day of dog school for me. Not for my dog, but just for me. Unlike real school, parent’s night is a week before the school term starts. Middle schools in this country could take a lesson from Lucky Dog Sports Club by bringing in the parents first, so we can […]
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If My Dog Were a Person
She would be a thumb sucker and have a pacifier and chew gum and chew on her pencils and smoke. And snuff wouldn’t surprise me either. She’s the most orally fixated dog ever. On walks, she picks up things and rolls them around in her mouth until she sees something more disgusting and then […]
Dog Days
Sometimes a blogger gets busy. Sometimes it’s best for all concerned to look at funny dog pictures instead of reading any words at all. Thanks to fellow blogger Tom Rupe for this dogalicious photo array. Which is your favorite?
Yappy Hour on the Beach
I take a walk on the beach just about every Sunday morning. It’s one of the things in the plus column on the list of why you might want to live in Florida. (That and we get the prize for biggest and best cockroaches in the U.S.) Florida is a very dog-friendly state. People […]
Sit, Dog-Sit
I’ve decided that dog-sitting is the perfect thing for a person without a dog to do. It’s also a fine thing for a person with a dog, too, but only because dogs are concurrent: If you have one dog and you dog-sit another dog, your work doesn’t double. It’s like serving two jail terms […]
Adopt a Dog/Baby/Word/Whatever
My husband is all over me to get a dog. I’m not the most aggressive, stand-your-ground person (translation: I’m a pushover), so I’m new at this role as the one who gets to say no-you-can’t-get-a-puppy-go-clean-your-room-and-do-your-homework. He wants to adopt a greyhound who can’t race anymore or Buster, a lab that someone found and is […]