In the spring of 2018, my family adopted a Labradoodle. We named him Briscoe, after a character from “The Andy Griffith Show.” He’s a spunky fellow with curly black fur and big brown eyes. I couldn’t ...

I first met Joe when he was six years old, having spent his entire life attached by a heavy logging chain to a hollowed-out air conditioning unit in a backyard in Virginia. His surroundings more ...

The other night we came home from having dinner out with the family, and found a mess left by the dogs. One of them is a pup and is still “learning the ropes,”–so it was somewhat predictable. You ...

Dogs possess “Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Indolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the virtues of Man, without his Vices.” That prescient poem (just the beginning) from 1808 was ...