Archive For The “Wild Dog” Category
Wolves & the Endangered Species Act – An Explainer. The Trump Administration plans to delist the gray wolf across the Lower 48. Here’s why that’s happening and what it means for the future of the species. By Wes Siler for Outside: Indefinitely Wild. Mar 7, 2019. During a speech on Wednesday that was closed to both…
Mexico has a faint physical smell all of her own, as each human being has. And this is a curious, inexplicable scent, in which there is resin and perspiration, and urine, among other things. – D.H. Lawrence, Mornings in Mexico. A pack of Debt Dogs From Hell may have snapped at my heels on a…
I saw the headline below and thought, what about those of us who walk younger dogs? – JDW Broken bones from falls on the rise among older dog walkers By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Broken bones from falls while dog walking are on the rise among older U.S. adults and hip fractures are among…
By Kathy Saunders for the Tampa Bay Times. When he introduced the animated film about the puppy Pip in October, the CEO of Southeastern Guide Dogs, Titus Herman, shared his dream with the theatre audience, saying, “We would love to get one million views.” As of this week, the four-minute, 3-D film been seen by…
By Anna Callaghan for Outside. On November 9, 2018, a dog named Mera became the first of her kind to reach the summit of Baruntse, a 23,389-foot peak in Nepal’s Himalayas, located just south of Mount Everest. The peak, often overlooked as it lies in the shadow of some of the tallest mountains in the…
You know how on Facebook you get these annoying updates, reminding you about stuff that happened years ago. Stuff you’d forgotten about. Well, here’s February 22, 2016. And thanks for playing along. – JDW I call this… patience and wisdom. Ever to smell so sweet. But what about her nerve? Or does she know something…
I was the kind of kid who might take a poster off the wall as a souvenir. Actually collect NO TRESPASSING signs from places I wasn’t s’posed to be at. So anyway when this kid came home dead to no parades, thought it was sad, real sad. Then three guys make it back and our…
The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. – Peggy O’Mara Conversation at my first gallery opening. “Been drawing dogs for over thirty years now.” “That’s a dog?” The wine was free. Some pieces went unsold.
Good or bad, a strong man is trouble. – Denis Johnson, Tree Of Smoke To be honest, I am not a fan of men. The older, the whiter, the fatter, the worse. Now don’t get me wrong, some old fat white men might be completely okay. I have friends who are old and white and…
Companion and Commodity: The Victorian Dog By Colin Dickey ONE OF THE PERENNIAL questions of anyone who meets our dog Alistair is, what is he? He is certainly part- or mostly Labrador Retriever: he has a lab’s face and demeanor, down to the innate love of tennis balls. But he’s half the size of a normal lab, and…