Healthy Dogs

Both Reid and Matt reviewed Ted Kerasote’s first dog book, Merle’s Door, here. His newest book, Pukka’s Promise:the Quest for longer- Lived Dogs, nearly got by me as I worked on my own dog book, and that would be a shame. Less a narrative than his previous book, it uses his present dog Pukka to …

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Another quote

From the late Christopher Hitchens, via  Jackson, who said of it (remember, he is Orthodox): “…   [he’s] both cynologically and theologically astute (atheist or no)…” Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are …

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Doggage

Micaela’s Lublub from Finland, one of my favorite dogs, reminding us that at 13 she can be elegant as well as comic; the third, used here before, reminds us of the comedy. She did that herself with no human help…

Doggage

It is spring in Germany and I have been neglecting Jutta’s girls.  But the Nhubia (tazi) and Taalai (taigan) show is revving up with spring energy. I THINK Nhubia is eleven or twelve, and I know she is over ten. You would never know it.

Random Doggage

Daniela tells us that Blaze is not coursing marmots; he is just diving off a steep slope– an arroyo?– in hot pursuit…