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To football fans, last month’s Super Bowl meant Harbaugh vs. Harbaugh . . . a 34-minute stadium-wide blackout . . . the Ravens holding off the hard-charging 49ers for the victory . . . and a triumphant finale to the Ray Lewis Farewell Tour. Front and center for animal lovers, though, wasn’t Lewis, or Colin Read More
Last weekend, as you heard from Ricky in his latest Roof Rack Report, we spent some time in Vermont with my niece Kat, my grandnephew Teddy, and my nephew-in-law David. (I’m not really an authority when it comes to “relative” nomenclature.) David grew up in Michigan . . . and he and Kat have been Read More
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Here’s a quiz: What dogs are active, independent, tenacious, and vocal? Another hint: They don’t always get the best grades in “plays well with others.” Terriers, of course! We all know this. Same as we know that setters and retrievers are energetic and friendly — and also maybe a little bit goofy and slow to Read More
It’s fast becoming a ritual for my dog: Show up in a new city. See someone who’s been dying to meet you. Poop on their floor. Sunday, on our way home from Charlottesville, we decided to scrap our visit to Monticello in favor of dropping in on Robby’s friend Nick at Johns Hopkins. Ricky, in Read More
Bummer! Beagles dropped a notch from #3 to #4 in America’s most popular dog standings, according to rankings released by the AKC two weeks ago. (Not your fault, Ricky!) When I tweeted out that Ricky and his mates were holding down the #4 spot, my friend Langdon from Boston couldn’t help tweeting back at me, Read More
I was just reading an article in my alma mater’s alumni magazine, The Pennsylvania Gazette, about the new Penn Vet Working Dog Center that’s now breeding and training the country’s top detection dogs. The cover line for the article is “Dogs at Work.” Well, I know a working dog, too: He’s currently “employed” at Pure [...]
Last week I wrote about Winslow Park, and its place in the panoply of “destination walks” that Ricky and I take daily. Loyal followers know well by now that since Ricky is a “reluctant” walker on his home turf, I take him each day for a drive — his favorite activity in the entire world [...]
The old dog, in this case, would be me. For years, Winslow Park, aka the dog park, has been in our rotation of “destination” walks, but, to be perfectly honest, I’ve never looked forward to going there. Sure, all my dog-owner friends rave about it: Dogs everywhere! Great for socializing! Jake/Molly/Spanky loves frolicking in the [...]
This morning I took Ricky to the vet to have a lump on his haunch looked at, to have a cyst removed, and for some routine bloodwork. Two hours — and $896.96 later (!!!), I picked him up, good as new. Ah,yes — just another day in the life of a high-maintenance beagle. (At least [...]
The pattern was established back in the winter of 2003, Ricky’s first Christmas. Matt, then 22, and Robby, 10, were locked in one of their weird competitions: Whose gift would Ricky like better? Matt had stashed away three french fries from a recent visit to the Diner, which he covered with a paper napkin and [...]
