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 ›
Old Dogs
A Dog Up For Fun: Fostercare Weimaraner #2: Weimy
In a one-year memorial marking the loss of my dog companion Yeager, all articles running from June 1 through June 3 will reflect that subject, including the last two of three dogs I recently foster-cared from the same rescue shelter… Read More ›
A Dog on the Verge of Loss: Fostercare Weimaraner #1 Paddinginton
A year ago yesterday marks what became the last three-weeks of my dog Yeager’s life. One can find on this website articles I’ve written about some of that experience (with links below). So much of what proved to be a… Read More ›
The Yeager Fund for Special Need Dogs Who’ll Never Be Adopted
Today, 2011’s last business day for tax-deductible charitable contributions I’m compelled to ask as many people as possible to take 45 seconds, click to a link and to PayPal and help keep alive and healthy some gentle, loving Dogs with… Read More ›
Three Yeager the Weimaraner Singing Christmas Hat Videos
It’s somewhat ironic that someone who once was bewildered by people who plastered their work stations with snapshots of their red-eyed dogs, pooches, cats and kitties would have so eagerly become a personal photographer and videographer to his late, great… Read More ›
How An Old Dog Taught Me New Tricks: The Wisdom Revealed By Our Aging Canines
This is the second of what seems to be shaping up into a series that was not entirely envisioned until a day ago. I’m reluctant about indulging too much about a personal issue like the loss of a dog –… Read More ›
The World's Best Dog: A Tribute to Yeager the Weimaraner, 1995-2011
The famous Dog-Whisperer Cesar Milan would’ve been appalled by how Yeager the Weimaraner led me down the path we shared, rather than me guiding him. I simply maintained a pledge to respect his wishes, as best as I could determine them, and… Read More ›
An Old Dog's Last Runyon Run? A Walk in the Park
When I officially adopted Yeager on New Year’s Day 2002, he was six and a half years old, almost to the day. I was spared the frustrating joys of inculcating good behavior in a puppy and got to jump… Read More ›
When Is a Dog Old?
At one point in the life shared between human and dog companions, it will often belatedly dawn on the former that the latter has suddenly found his day to be perfectly fulfilling with just a deeper sleep and a… Read More ›