Archive For The “Wild Dog” Category
Headed out to our secret island getaway for a couple of days. https://www.jackdogwelch.com/?p=6036 Last couple times we took the dogs with us. Couldn’t see the water from our bed and no fenced yard. Dogs were on vacation, we weren’t. Leaving our beloved companions at the Four Paws Kennel. Ragnar had to retake his admissions test…
LONDON (The Borowitz Report)—Queen Elizabeth II has trained her corgis to attack the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, if he ever comes to Buckingham Palace again, palace sources have confirmed. For Johnson, who recently suffered another setback involving a dog, the news that the Queen was prepping her beloved canines to eviscerate him was just the…
The epic implications of being human end in more than this: we start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles. – Anatole Broyard WHAT FICTION NEEDS: MORE READERS, MORE DOGS Anatole Broyard was an editor of The…
What to Do When You Lose a Dog There’s no right way to grieve the death of a beloved pet by Blair Braverman, the new advice columnist – ‘Tough Love’ – for Outside magazine. My dog Kelsey was hit by a car when she was off leash on a hike, the same hike we’ve taken literally…
No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich. – Louis Sabin By Morty Storm Everybody who has a dog calls him “Rover” or “Boy.” I call mine “Sex.” He’s a great pal, but he has caused me a great deal of embarrassment. When I went to…
Want your dog to be a part of science? Dog owners are being asked to volunteer their dogs for research on how the aging process can be slowed. Some dogs will take a pill, while others will just have data collected on their lives. Old dogs, new tricks Otsphoto/Shutterstock As if dogs don’t already do…
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity. – Edvard Munch Can Dogs See Ghosts? By Alexandra Anastasio for The AKC Nibble. While there are people who believe in the paranormal, have you ever wondered whether your dog is able to sense the spirits? After all, canines have extraordinary senses that…
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. – Charles de Gaulle As humans shaped dogs’ bodies, we also altered their brains By Jason Bittel for the Washington Post. Dogs are a weird bunch. They range in size from bearish behemoths like Newfoundlands to pipsqueaks like Milly, a Chihuahua who measures…
As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white…
How Can You Know What Your Dog Is Really Feeling? Depressed, Confused, Excited, Surprised… and We’re Not Listening By Alexandra Horowitz Every day watching dogs I see emotion in them. At the lab, many of the scenes we create for them are inadvertent emotion provocation. I see curiosity directed at a small robotic “dog” toy that dances and plays…