The grieving process starts
Since we started Bilerico Project, my icon picture has stayed the same. It's me and my little buddy, Fritz. Fritz is a rat terrier and he's 16 now. ...
Dogs
Dog Meat Banned in Beijing During Games
Danwei | Posted 07.10.2008 | Home
A Chinese blogger called Han Yue has posted a notice that purports to be from the Beijing City Government Food Safety Office (北京市政府食品安...
Must Walk Dogs
Jamie Reidy | Posted 07.09.2008 | Living
Exactly when did I become my friends' emergency dog sitter? I don't have to ask "why." That's obvious: nobody thinks I have a job. I'm a writer. A...
How Your Dog Can Save Your Love Life
KSAT.com | Darlene Dunn | Posted 06.27.2008 | Living
After a long day at work, dog owners are typically greeted by a pooch that is overjoyed to have them home. Just imagine if spouses or mates would be ...
Drug War Makes New York Legislator Doggone Crazy
Anthony Papa | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
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New York State Assemblyman Thomas Kirwan recently introduced legislation that would prevent people with felony drug convictions from owning dogs such as pit bulls and Rottweilers.
Getting Back Home: An Update
Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.27.2008 | Living
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Several months ago, I wrote here about the possibility of my being able to buy back the home that I had to sell due to a divorce agreement. Presently,...
My Dog is Dead
Terence Smith | Posted 05.21.2008 | Living
Rooney, our elegant, black-and-white Borzoi, or Russian wolfhound, is dead. At age five. From bone cancer. A terrible conclusion, by any description. Not big news, perhaps, but it is to me.
Chunky Monkeys as Metaphor for Life
Leslie Goldman | Posted 05.08.2008 | Living
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I'm saddened to say that chubby puppies are no longer alone when it comes to the scourge of animal kingdom obesity.
How A Schpoodle Came To My Rescue
Sherman Yellen | Posted 05.02.2008 | Living
Thanks to a runaway black and white puppy who went haywire on Second Avenue and 70th Street in New York, I saw again the basic decency in people and felt some hope for the future.
Dog Depression: Fact Or Fiction?
Huffington Post | Verena von Pfetten | Posted 04.01.2008 | Living
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Can well-fed, comfortably housed dogs show signs of depression or anxiety? Could these signs actually be indicators of chronic pain, or even chronic b...
Baltimore's Golden Fences Come Down
Alison Stein Wellner | Posted 03.29.2008 | Living
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I visited Baltimore on Thursday, and checked out Mount Vernon Place. It's a historic area of the city, with four rectangular parks, arranged around a ...
Gus and Us, Part 5: In The End Is The Beginning
Sherman Yellen | Posted 03.10.2008 | Living
Having a dog does the most amazing and contradictory thing - it forces us to grow up and to be a child at the same time, and so it was with Gus and me.
Gus and Us, Part 4: Paradise Found: Bridgehampton Days
Sherman Yellen | Posted 03.03.2008 | Living
If he had harmed our dog, Gus, while driving, In Cold Blood would have been my story of how I had killed Truman Capote, and not his best selling account of how a farm family was brutally murdered.
Mush! The 2008 Iditarod Begins
Alison Stein Wellner | Posted 03.02.2008 | Living
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I'm in Anchorage, Alaska right now where I watched the ceremonial start of the 2008 Iditarod yesterday.
Gus and Us -- Part Two
Sherman Yellen | Posted 02.11.2008 | Living
When you love a dog as we loved Gus our miniature schnauzer, the world is divided into those who share your love of dogs, the blessed who do, and the damned who don't.
Gus and Us
Sherman Yellen | Posted 01.31.2008 | Living
A love story about a dog, or a dog story about love.
The Dogs of Destruction
Peggy Drexler | Posted 12.23.2007 | Living
Dogs make us think less and laugh more. They pull us outside of ourselves, and bring us together in the collaborative lookout for their wellbeing.
A Very Good Dog Who Taught Me Some New Tricks.
Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 12.12.2007 | Entertainment
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Among the things I've learned from my three-legged dog: When sleeping with a human, sometimes it's fun to lick them in the middle of the night for no reason, or get really, really, really close, especially in winter.
Why Can't Docs Be More Like Dogs?
Peggy Drexler | Posted 12.09.2007 | Living
The difference between service dogs and doctors -- besides medical school, internships, residencies, proud parents and opposable thumbs -- is total and absolute concentration on the patient.
How to Make Your Dog Neurotic
Leslie Blanco | Posted 11.29.2007 | Living
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If you want to have the kind of dog that barks all day, pees on your couch, growls at everyone he sees, alienates you from your friends and causes your family to stage interventions, you're going to have to work HARD.
Dead Dog Waiting
Peggy Drexler | Posted 11.27.2007 | Living
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I don't make it a habit to bother the governor of New Jersey. But I just dashed off an e-mail to his office with a plea to save a dog I've never met.
Dogs, Depression and Real Life
Peggy Drexler | Posted 11.20.2007 | Living
Unlike antidepressants, dogs don't cause dry mouth, blurred vision, weight gain, sexual side effects, constipation or headache.
Dogs, Depression and Real Life
Peggy Drexler | Posted 11.19.2007 | Living
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I'm starting to see research about the wonderful things dogs do for our hormones and other body chemicals that keep us from exacting terrible revenge on dry cleaners, mimes and cable installers.
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