Just a few weeks ago, in the comment thread for my Things Not to Say to the Owners of Small Dogs post, I allowed as how my small dog isn’t one of the tinies and isn’t really at risk of being mistaken for a squeaky toy by large or giant breeds, the way the tinies are.That was [...]
In the beginning, there was an orphaned German Shepherd puppy in the war-torn fields of World War One France, and a young American soldier who had spent a lot of his life lonely and isolated, and part of it in an orphanage. The young soldier was Lee Duncan; the orphan puppy became Rin Tin Tin, [...]
“Oh, so yours is one of those ankle-biters.” No. My dog, all fifteen pounds of her, is a Canine Good Citizen. She loves people, she especially loves kids, and she loves kids even when they’re doing the very things you don’t want kids to do around dogs: move quickly and unexpectedly, speak in high, excited [...]
When the first plane hit the North Tower on the morning of 9/11, Michael Hingson was at work on the 78th floor, preparing to start a presentation to visiting clients of his employer, Quantum. The building shook, and tilted, and his sighted colleagues, who could see the burning papers and other debris falling, started to [...]
Tantor Media, ISBN 9781400166916, October 2010 Julie Klam was thirty, living alone, and convinced she’d never find True Love. She decided she needed a dog in her life, did careful breed research, and decided on a Boston terrier. Then she made an hours-long drive to Pennsylvania to adopt Otto, in part because his [...]
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