One sometimes hears a comment along the lines of “be the kind of person your pet thinks you are” as an appeal for the best of human behavior. …

News flash: 2020 sucked. But as with most sucky things, we should search for the lessons perhaps available. That moves me to the best dog on t…

If you’re a regular reader here, it probably wouldn’t surprise you if this turned out to be another column about Lola, the world’s most perfec…

Readers may recall the world’s most perfect pup (my column, my rules) came into my life a couple years ago. We were ready, time and illness ha…

I hope you can forgive my not acknowledging last Monday, Aug. 10, as National Spoil Your Dog Day. My excuse, hopefully acceptable, is that my …

I’ve loved and lived with a whole lot of animals, including a whole lot of dogs, and although I do not have a “type” (having lived with sizes …

Although currently a thing of the past, visits to the dog park with the world’s most perfect puppy Lola (my column, my rules) often led to que…

A very dear friend died just a few days ago. His death was not a surprise, coming at the end of a long and sad illness. His death is, in some …

Defying several stereotypes, my mother was not a very good cook, and neither did she ever show much interest in becoming one. I remember askin…