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 ›
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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 ›
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 ›
Smokey: A Dog I Knew but Never Met
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Helping Yourself Help A Very Old Dog Live Longer and Well (Part II)
It’s understandable how striving to maintain a very old dog’s well-being may appear futile. Given a dog’s shorter life span, the time, energy and money expended on behalf of what may only be a matter of several weeks or months… Read More ›
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