From the moment I saw his generous grin and chestnut coat, I knew I’d like him. We had not yet met. And we never would. His name was Smokey, and I first came to know about him through his human… Read More ›
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The Dogs We Meet: Follow Their Lead
[This article’s first posting had a bad link. This repost will work.] You see them everywhere, day and evening, high-stepping amid urban decay, trotting through trim suburbs, meandering in the country. They may be in a store where clerks don’t mind… Read More ›
Remembering a Dog Who Helped Me Forget: Yeager the Weimaraner
June 3, is what I only half-jokingly call Yeager Memorial Day. Two years ago today, my great canine companion, 90-pound 16-year old Yeager the Weimaraner died. Despite the fact that the absence of his large presence still lingers as a… Read More ›
The Agoraphobic Dog: Fostercare Weimaraner #4, Baron The Dichotomus
I’ve recently finished the fourth period of time for the fourth “unadoptable” Weimaraners I’ve had the privilege to fostercare from Friends for Pets, southern California’s Weimaraner rescue and no-kill shelter. The first three were Paddington, Weimy and Beamer. This fellow is Baron,… Read More ›
Jackie Kennedy’s Dogged Influence on JFK Jr. & Canine-Themed Homes
While yesterday’s article, The Dogs of Jackie O: Jackie Kennedy’s Lifetime of Canine Companions, detailed the First Lady’s life alongside a series of pooches during almost fifty of her sixty-four years, even after there were no longer four-legged friends in… Read More ›
The Dogs of Jackie O: Thirty Pictures of Jacqueline Kennedy’s Lifetime of Canine Companions
From her earliest childhood days on Long Island, through her youth in New York, Newport, Rhode Island and McLean, Virginia, to her public period as the wife of a U.S. Senator in Washington and in the White House as First… Read More ›
To All Readers: Help These Dogs, Please.
For two years now, everything available on this website, be it articles that readers access for pleasure or research, images pinned on Pinterest and answered questions from even anonymous individuals has been provided without subscription. Nearly 240 magazine-length stories have… Read More ›
Watching Whitmore: The ‘Frisco Whippet Who Brought Me Places
I’m sure there are many of his breed who call San Francisco home, but to the many humans who live there in a particular neighborhood, there is no mistaking them for Whitmore, the ‘Frisco Whippet. I’d met him before, and… Read More ›
Insult Comic Dog Triumph Poised for 2012 Election
He’s back, and better than ever. Yes, that Dog. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, who made his first public appearance in 1997 on NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and began insulting every self-righteous celebrity and ridiculous non-celebrity among us,… Read More ›
How A Dying Neighbor & Dying Dog Helped Each Other Live: The Tale of Snackhouse
Introduction A year ago today my great daily companion of ten years, Yeager the Weimaraner, died. Of all the “Yeager epistles,” the one I’ve decided to set down on my own “Yeager Memorial Day” is one about that universal reality… Read More ›
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