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. She’d entwined the internet router cord around her legs, her body, and even her muzzle, and then plucked the…
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 Lhasa Apso Reporter, the New Zealand Kennel Gazette, and the Lhasa Apso Club Newsletter of the United Kingdom. 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 chewed through a paper grocery bag, he’d eaten an entire loaf of bread from it, and he was now…
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 United Kingdom, the book Heart Dog Diaries, and the several websites on which it has been featured. Joyce: “Please…
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 grievous, and I bade her to ‘fess up. “Our friend Lisa brought along her new dog, a young Shih…
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 screeched my car into the nearest turn-off, the parking lot of a fast-food place. The car behind me honked…
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 adoption to succeed. And we’d perhaps gone a bit overboard in our anticipation, even choosing a name for the…
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 basin near the condo complex where we stayed served as her focal point for interesting activities and creatures. She…
Chipmunk Invasion!
We’re fortunate to have Shih Tzus Cody and Mia, plus houseguest Waylon, to protect us from hordes of marauding chipmunks.
Things We’ll Remember
We’ll remember her exuberance, her affection, her interest in all things, and her amazing energy level– all of which lasted well into her fifteenth year. We’ll never stop missing her, and she’ll never be forgotten.