Beagleman

Westminster Shwestminster

I don’t mean to sound bitchy, but seriously, what does Rerun of Roirdan have that I don’t have? That’s the three-year-old who won best in breed for 13-inch beagles this morning at Westminster. Oh yeah, the “sire” is Ch Lanbur Carson City, and the “dam” is Encore Ginny Lind. Well, excuse me, bu…

Super Bowl Snub

Over the years I’ve noticed a disturbing trend. Whenever there’s a family celebration — particularly a celebration featuring food — I’m shipped out. Banished behind closed doors. Shut up in my crate. Shuttled over to Luz’s. It happens at Thanksgiving . . . and Passover . . . and July 4 barbe…

And This Is How They Spent Their Weekend?

We were in VT for the weekend. Yup, they finally took me along. It’s about time. Anyway, Beagle Man went skiing at Stratton on Saturday, with Greg & Kelly, Geiger & Ashley, and Fighting Geli-ni. It was 9 degrees when they left the house, and reached a high of 13. They took the lift to…

Friendliest Dog In the World?

"What can I do for you?"

I was just reading an article in my alma mater’s alumni magazine, The Pennsylvania Gazette, about the new Penn Vet Working Dog Center that’s now breeding and training the country’s…

Destination Walks: Setting the Record Straight

Just what the world needed: Beagle Man’s ratings of my walks. I mean, really! How many times have I heard him tell people, “It’s his half hour (nodding at me), so we go wherever he wants. If he wants to just stand and sniff, then we stand and sniff.” Really? This morning, he’s all, let’s go…

Rating the “Destination Walks”

This morning at Greenfield Hill Church: Ricky was fine when I carried him

Last week I wrote about Winslow Park, and its place in the panoply of “destination walks” that Ricky and I take daily. Loyal followers know…

Old Dog Learns New Trick

Big dogs and little dogs play monkey in the middle. Ricky is monkey

The old dog, in this case, would be me. For years, Winslow Park, aka the dog park, has been in our rotation of “destination” walks, but, to be pe…

Anything for Animals

Ricky's new $896.96 blue bandage

This morning I took Ricky to the vet to have a lump on his haunch looked at, to have a cyst removed, and for some routine bloodwork. Two hours — and $896.96 later (!!!), I picke…

Ricky’s Coffee Break

A typical search and destroy mission

The pattern was established back in the winter of 2003, Ricky’s first Christmas. Matt, then 22, and Robby, 10, were locked in one of their weird competitions: Whose gift would …

Check It Out: Ricky’s Bar & Grill, Hank’s Fine Furniture!

Bet you didn’t know that Ricky’s Bar & Grill in Seattle has “nice healthy options” and “the staff is always very friendly and courteous”? (Insider Pages) Or that Hank’s Fine Furniture, with a whole bunch of locations in the South, has been repeatedly voted “the Best of the Best place to buy…