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Hurricane Who?

Bring it on, Irene!
Sunday morning, 4:50 AM.  I hear the shakety-shake.  Ricky had jumped out of his bed and was doing his morning dog-thing.  The moment I had half-dreaded, half-anticipated had arrived:  My beagle w…
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Anticipation

Zoe, Chloe, and Tucker (top to bottom)
I’d by lying if I said I wasn’t starting to really look forward to my cross-country drive to L.A. with my doggy.  I know it all started as a promise to Robby to bring his pup ou…
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Missing Ricky

Have been out at the beach in Montauk on vacation for the last two weeks.  Have forgotten — as you can see — how to write in complete sentences. In the midst of this sun-sand-surf interlude, with nothing but picture-perfect weather, my niece Kat had a baby — George Edward.  To be called Teddy,…
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Banned From the Beach

"It's so hot. And I'm full of sand. And the horse flies are eating me alive. And I hate the water. I just don't get it . . ."
We were on the beach yesterday — a reasonable move, I think, wi…
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Your Dog Ate What???

Dog owners are always trying to one-up each other. My last post on Ricky’s relentless pursuit of food elicited comments from followers about their own beagles’ never-ending quest. One reader says her Boo has snagged and devoured a tray of fudge, toffee bars, a pound of cheese, a pound of ham -…
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Easy Pickin’s

Post-bagel bliss
All dogs live to eat. Most dogs would be happy to eat — anything — 24/7. The thing that separates my very special beagle from the pack is his resourcefulness in sniffing out the newbie in any giv…
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Is It Maggie and Dutch?

. . . or Starsky and Hutch?
There are two little beagles Ricky and I have been running into lately on our “destination” walks at Southport Harbor. They’re brother and sister, seven years old, and a lot smaller than …
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My Son, the Hiker

Lewis and Clark -- and Ricky
All three of my sons — the human ones, that is — are excellent athletes. Football, basketball, baseball . . . I’ve gotten a huge kick watching them play over the years. I’ve also coac…
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My Animal Companion

Robby and his pet -- er -- animal companion
Usually when I visit my barber shop, they’ve got Shibani Joshi or Neil Cavuto or some other talking head from the Fox Business Network squawking about the U.S.’s role in th…
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Kemba, Mom, and Ricky

Happy Birthday, Ricky!
Somewhere along the line during UConn’s historic and magnificent run through the Big East Tournament and then March Madness, Kemba Walker mentioned Sunday, May 8 as being a very big day for him…
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