We think we’re so different because of either our age or the age in which we live. Mastercards, Hybrids, iPhones, eHarmony, we’re just so damn with it that we often feel like just shoving it up the app and being… Read More ›
Dogs 
Helping A Very Old Dog Live Well & Naturally: A Two-Part Series
On June 3, 2011, my very beloved canine companion Yeager died. I wrote this two-part article on what I learned about caring for a Very Old Dog, the genesis of a book by the same title I have continued to… Read More ›
Never Forgetting A Dog’s Birthday
Has anyone truly met a Dog unworthy of serious consideration for sainthood? When you recognize how we all shape the way Dogs develop, who really can blame a Dog for just doing what they’ve learned to believe is natural? Growling,… Read More ›
Fostercaring Dogs: An Often Ignored but Crucial Role in Saving Lives (Part 1)
For four years now, I’ve marked the period around June third with some remembrance of my sixteen-year old Weimaraner named Yeager Meister, the very first Dog who permanently shared my life. On that day in 2011, I was lucky to… Read More ›
How A New Dog Brought An Old Dog Home
Doggy Adultery. That’s the only way of describing the odd pangs I first felt exactly a year ago today. Startling excitement. That’s what it felt like to have my fate cross that of Hudson, a rescue Dog who, despite having… Read More ›
Changing a Dog’s Name: How Caesar Became Hudson
Perhaps I’ve a Northeastern tone when I say “scee” that didn’t quite correctly register with his Californian ear. Once he was ensconced in his new home, where he could clearly hear me without the exciting cacophony of his fellow Weimaraners… Read More ›
A Cleveland Dog Resists Rescue for Two Years
This article was written by Donna J. Miller, reporter of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and first appeared on www.cleveland.com on January 9, 2014, with accompanying photograps by Angeline Dzadony. An abandoned black dog held a lonely vigil for two years… Read More ›
Willfully Exuberant Dog: Fostercare Weimaraner #5, Ceasar
We’d met twice before he became the next Weimaraner I would fostercare. In fact, he literally called me out, skillfully capturing my attention without resorting to the predictable old dog “bark.” Instead, the fellow known as Caesar emitted a steady… Read More ›
Feast Beasts: Two Pilgrim Dogs At the First Thanksgiving
We know their breed, but not their names. We know they sailed over on the Mayflower and were part of the first settlement by the Pilgrims at Plymouth Plantation in December of 1620, but we don’t know if they were… Read More ›
New Study Proves Emotional Intelligence of Dogs, Makes Case for Rights
In nearly three years of publishing this website, this is the first article I believe to be of such importance and with so compelling a message, that I am reproducing it here in full. It appeared in the New York… Read More ›
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