Tag: dogs

  • It’s a good life if you can swing it

    Three people attending to a very happy bulldog (with purple-painted nails!) at Woofstock, in Toronto on June 11, 2011.

  • A serious question about dogs and wolf howling

    Is it a thing, where dogs’ heads get all twisty when they hear a wolf howl? Some of these mutts seriously look like their heads are going to pop right off. Observe: German shepherd howling: Pomeranian howling: Pit bull howling: I tried this on my my bull terrier, and she did not howl, or even…

  • A few words about my dog Tucker

    I’d never wanted a fluffy dog, but my mom decided to adopt Tucker from friends. And so, suddenly we had a five-year-old fluff-ball that looked like an Ewok. Or a Wookie. An Ewookie? A Wookiewok? I was horrified to discover on the mantle of the previous family’s home a framed photo of Tucker with long,…