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Job wanted for newly graduated smallish black dog of limited skills.
Last Tuesday evening the WideEyedSpouse and I marched down the block with Miss Tibbit to her training final exam and graduation, belching the happy taste of Sahlen’s hot dogs and a reasonable...
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Love is…a gentle evisceration.
The lovey Hippo receives affection. Miss Tibbit savours lovey Hippo belly contents. Hamish administers love to the thinner lovey HIppo. We all celebrate Valentine’s love in our way. I prefer mine with...
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No Dogs Allowed? Hamish the Corgi Finds a Way.
“Where are we going?” Hamish the Corgi asked as he watched me dig the hiking pack out of the coat closet. It wasn’t easy. Five months of hats, scarves, gloves, reusable bags, dog towels, and YakTrax...
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Woodstock ends his days.
Woodstock moved in with us Friday. This evening he was sleeping on the rug in the front parlor. Tibbit pretended not to notice. When she believed no one was watching, she sampled a small taste of...
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10 Reasons Miss Tibbit The Useless Little Black Dog May Not Lick My Face
10. Miss Tibbit is a dog and has aromatic dog mouth. 9. She licks the floor. 8. She licks the sidewalk. Oh, why? Because it has on it flavorful substances like gum, bird crap, spit. 7. Miss Tibbit...
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Hamish the Corgi Achieves Master Craftsdog Status
Press Release: With the intuitive senses of a nascent master of his craft, Hamish eyed the 107th Annual Strawberry festival at the Church of the Good Shepherd at the corner of Jewett and Summit...
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Miss Tibbit Takes Herself to Brunch.
“I’m feeling peckish,” Miss Tibbit, the Useless-Little-Black-Dog, thought to herself this sunny Saturday morning. She was curled tight on the Big Bed next to the Person. She laid there for a few...
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Walking dogs in the fall has a certain frisson.
The leaves changed in here Buffalo in that last week or two. An orangey road glow replaces the striking sun to shadow dichotomy of summer. Bowers formed by century-grown wrinkled and twisted tree...
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Lemme me see the other side.
I’ll tell you what. I have lived in Minnesota. I know what cold feels like. I spent a couple of winters in Anchorage. I know what big snow looks like. I grew up at the South Jersey shore. I am...
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The eerily prescient fortune cookie.
I love fortune cookies. The way they snap and crumble into shards of fresh tasting, sugary crispness. That crunch. Learning to say a word in Chinese. shí liú. grape. I hold fortune cookies in my hand...
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Hamish the Corgi, Almost a Person
Hamish the Corgi is almost a person. He has plans. He has dignity. He is hampered in life only by his tiny, T. Rex front legs and his lack of thumbs. Sometimes while he watches me analyze data and...
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