With a yip and a yank, the internet connection crumpled, and my online bill-paying session fizzled to a halt. Danged dog. She’d done it again. Beneath my desk stood our 11-year-old rescue Lhasa Apso, Snow Panda….
Moose: Part 1
The Dog Writers Association of America named “Moose: The Story of a Lhasa Apso” the winner of the Maxwell Medallion, as the Best Individual Feature Article in a Single-Breed Magazine. It has been published in the…
Moose: Part 2
One day we’d carried groceries in from the car, leaving several bags on the kitchen floor. A neighbor distracted us for several minutes, and as we returned to the kitchen we heard strange sounds. Moose had…
Moose: Comments
The following is a sampling of the responses received from readers of “Moose: The Story of a Lhasa Apso,” in the Lhasa Apso Reporter, the New Zealand Kennel Gazette, the Lhasa Apso Club Newsletter of the…
A Homecoming in Triplicate
“You won’t believe what I did,” said my wife, Linda, sporting a sheepish grin upon her return from the ladies’ social at the church. Given the event’s locale, I doubted her offense to have been particularly…
A Jury of Dogs
“I should have stopped the car. He’s probably dead by now.” I looked in horror at my wife, Linda, riding calmly in the passenger seat. What had she just said? We had to talk. Now. I…
Smitten and Smote
The dog in the Shelter cage gazed up at my wife, Linda, and then at me. Linda turned to me, mouthing a silent, but firm, “No.” I nodded in agreement, and in disappointment. We’d expected this…
Kite’s Away!
From her first trip, she enjoyed our warm-weather jaunts to the beach as much as did we humans. One aspect of those trips, though, seemed to stir particular fascination for the diminutive Shih Tzu. The drainage…
Bluebirds Not of a Kind
As they used to say on Sesame Street, “One of these things is not like the other.” Or something like that.
Chipmunk Invasion!
We’re fortunate to have Shih Tzus Cody and Mia, plus houseguest Waylon, to protect us from hordes of marauding chipmunks.