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.

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" As for raw food: "A coyote in the wild might eat raw food, but most coyotes don't look as good as my dog.

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Mr. ROYCE LAMBERTH (1995-2002 Presiding Judge, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance): I had to have my wife go upstairs because she didn't have a top secret clearance, so she couldn't be privy to any of this, but I kept my dog at my side.

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This week we go back to one of my favourite Sherlock Holmes stories, The dog that didn't bark.

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"One day my list just said, 'I'm glad the dog didn't pee on the carpet', " she recalls.

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