Archive For The “Wild Dog” Category
Dogs die. But dogs live, too. Right up until they die, they live. They live brave, beautiful lives. They protect their families. And love us. And make our lives a little brighter. And they don’t waste time being afraid of tomorrow. – Dan Gemeinhart National Dog Day 2019: Why Dogs are Better than Cats, According to…
Many dog owners believe that as much as sixty percent of their pet’s brain is set aside solely to demonstrate applications of the verb “to eat”- in both the active and passive forms. – Stanley Coren Took the puppy to the vet to get a shot. He needs the inoculation because I am hoping to…
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. – James Thurber Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow…
If you ask yourself, what next?, you damn well better have a good answer. – Barker Ajax That is how I feel sometimes. Watching “The Great Escape”, the old man said out loud, that’s how it feels to be me sometimes. The puppy looked up, maybe because he knew the old man was alone. Talking…
Since little-girlhood, we’re trained to find the Big Bad Wolf seductive. – Gina Barreca, “If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?”: Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times. If you live among wolves, you have to act like a wolf. – Nikita Khrushchev An excerpt from Wisdom of Wolves by…
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. – Abraham Lincoln A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. “What food might this contain?,” the mouse wondered. He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse…
You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it’s going to be bad. – Gen. James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis By Val Heart ———————————————————— Leadership problems cost us big in more ways than most of us realize. Whether we are struggling with authority figures…
There is, after all, a fluidity between who we were to other people, who we thought we were, who we think we were, and who we think we are now. – Maddie Crum When you hear about the angry old white male Florida voter, I hope you keep that face in mind. Lately, I have…
Incredible pups accompanied explorers (or gone solo into the unknown) over the centuries Photo: Sovfoto/UIG/Getty Amanda Eggert from Outside magazine. It turns out that courage, resourcefulness, sharply honed instinct, and occasional mischievousness serve both humans and beasts well. Like the explorers they accompany, the best adventure dogs have just a hint of masochism in them,…
Can You Have a Meaningful Long-Distance Relationship with a Dog? By Xuan Juliana Wang The year my parents brought home a golden retriever puppy from a neighbor’s backyard, we still used flip phones. I drove home from my college dorms and remember my dad showing me a pixelated photo of the puppy’s father. I named her Ella….