New Year’s in VT: Kemba slides easily into Christine’s pack (yellow Lab is Summit; then Hercules, Lanie, and Flicka (L-R) From time to time, circumstances force my hand and I have to leave Kemba with dog sitters.  This pains …

The one-and-only classic Chuckit Ball Ultra Last night, on the first night of Chanukah, Kemba got an orange-and-blue Chuckit Ultra Ball.  This is by far his favorite kind of toy.  He used to be content with regular tennis bal…

What’s wrong with this picture?  That’s right:  I’m not in it!  Last month Grace, Supermodel and the dog next door (Photo: Pamela Hanson) my sweet, cutesy next door Vizsla, weaseled her way into a fashion shoot with supermode…

A couple of Saturdays ago, Westport went absolutely nuts!  It happened right around noon, when that guy Joe was announced as our next Dogs welcome President.  Cars honking all up and down the Post Road, and Compo Road South! …

Heading out to dinner last Friday night.  I began scooping up my things — car keys, phone, reading glasses, Time for a new wallet, looks like mask — but I didn’t see my wallet in the drawer by the front door where I usually l…

Things I like: •  Carrots.  I like a lot of things besides my kibble, but this is the only people food Mom gives me.  Of course I grab the better stuff when no one’s looking — bagels, salami, pickles, you name it — but then I get in trouble.  Not big trouble, though.  Risk-reward?  Definitely wor…

Charlotte and Robert flanking me, “The Rev” “We interrupt this blog about dogs to bring you some breaking news:  The House Formerly Known as Camp Herman has been torn down . .” That’s how I started my mid-June post (“Glory Da…

Are you ready for some football?  I’m sure not!  Beagle Man gets so moody during the football season.  I wonder . . . do you think rooting for the Jets could have anything to do with it?  The season began yesterday with the Thursday Night game (Super Bowl champs Kansas City beat Houston), but Bea…

Kemba: “Mine!” It was all quiet on the eastern front.  I’d been flinging the Green Ball into the ocean for Kemba to retrieve for a good 45 minutes now, and he was  happy to follow my command to “read and relax.”  I was comfor…

Beagle Man’s always telling anyone who’ll listen that there’s nothing he’d Where I sleep when I’m in Beagle Man’s and Mom’s room like better than for me to sleep in his bed with him.  But it’s not gonna happen.  Mom says, “A…