So this past weekend when my dog and I went hiking with some of our mutual friends, I broke out the KoolCollar for the first time.
"As someone who lived in San Francisco's SoMa district for eight years, my dog Darwin and I experienced firsthand the need for even more parks and open spaces downtown, " Mr. Stoppelman says.
Now, my wife and dog and I could settle into the darkness in our house in the woods in Westchester county in New York, and see what Sandy brought us.
My puppy tucked her nose under my arm and the hundred clever dog names I had dreamed up over a lifetime vanished.
And I had to reveal to the world my messy home office and sleeping dog on the floor.
My congressman is one of the Blue Dog Dems, and I'm wondering what part the fiscally conservative Blue Doggers played in this whole negotiation, and how should we anticipate their votes looking?
Now, when my girlfriend comes over, I get up and run to the door to greet her like I learned to do from my dog.
You know, many nights I go home at night and I am so wounded from the conversations that I've had on TV that my dog Chip(ph) has to help me lick them up.
"If I took my dog to the dog park and yelled 'Dutch, Dutch, Dutch' and the dog ignored me, and this has gone on for several years, we may suggest you change the name to associate a new behavior, " she says.
While my friend fed her dog, I planted myself next to her bookshelf and started scanning the titles.
Last Christmas season I went to L.L. Bean to order some rain gear and repeatedly watched my computer curl up like a constipated dog every time I clicked on the order button.
Nevertheless, the itch returned last year, when, during an extended existentialist spin-out, the same family dog I had abandoned so many years ago dragged himself to my side and refused to leave.
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At 11 p.m. the two pulled up at a dark house with a dirt floor and no electricity--"a place I wouldn't even put my dog, " Parisi recalls. (Make that 13 dogs, all dachshunds.) A wrinkled old man came shuffling toward Parisi in the candlelight.
Lest you think I'm one of those injustice-collecting urban paranoids with a tinfoil hat and a plastic bag containing a brisket and a manifesto in tiny handwriting, a New York crazy who has a problem with everybody and everything, I should mention that I grew up with -- and adored -- a dog of my very own.
I'd taken the dog for a walk that morning and I felt like something was pressing down hard on my shoulders all the time.
"My mother had a dog just like him, so I would tell her it was her dog, and she would hold onto his leash, even in bed up to the last few weeks before she passed away, " Walsh said.
If I was a competitor, I think all I'd care about would be knowing whether my dog was going to come up a winner and walk away with the dog chow "spokesdog" contract, the guest spot on the "Today" show and stud fees in perpetuity.
By the time I awoke the next day, shook off the collywobbles and registered my mouse clicks, only a dog's breakfast of event choices were left.
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