Does Your Dog Blog?
These days, it seems everyone from the UPS man to your mother-in-law is a blogger. At last count, the blog search engine Technorati.com shows nearly 113 million blogs on the Internet, and it estimates that more than 120,000 blogs are created each day.Read More on CNN.com...So why shouldn't pets have voices? At least that's the sentiment of lots of pet owners who have set up blogs for their dogs, cats, goldfish and hamsters to channel their household companions online.
It goes without saying that Max, a 3-year-old golden retriever can't talk. But that doesn't stop him from chronicling his dog's life -- as told to his owner Aubrey Jones -- on the blog Max the Golden Retriever.
There are trips to the dog park, musings on his owners' socks, confessions about crushes on poodles and, of course, his passion for tennis balls.
Since we're on the topic of dogs, Newsweek has an article on our favorite dog of all: Hachiko, the Akita.
In 1924, a noted professor at Tokyo University died after suffering a stroke. He was mourned and then, as we say in the 21st century, life moved on. That is, it moved on for everyone but his dog, Hachiko, who continued to meet his master's 4 o'clock commuter train at Shibuya station every day for the next nine years. The dog's intense loyalty became the subject of newspaper articles--he was eventually honored with a bronze statue and a postage stamp.
You can read more of Newsweek's article here or more on Hachiko and the Akita breed or here.
Hachiko's story is also being made into a movie starring Richard Gere.
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Huffington Post | Verena von Pfetten
First Posted: 03-21-08 09:41 AM | Updated: 03-29-08 05:12 AM