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Pokey’s Cinematic Multiplex

Paula Marantz Cohen — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 11:30:00 +0000

I often think about my deceased dog, Pokey. He was a Wheaton terrier with a genetic predisposition toward stomach problems, and he eventually succumbed to gastric cancer in his 11th year. I miss Pokey and have nostalgia for his daily routine. He had a fairly mellow disposition (except with the mailman and the gasman, for […]

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Death Loses, Love Wins

John Ballantine — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:30:00 +0000

Teddy died in my arms. Teddy tipped his toy box over, pushing it back against the wall. Growling, he looked up for help as he scattered his toys. “Where is my bone? My bones are here, where are they?” Another scratch and growl. He tossed Catia’s turquoise turtle to the side, searching for his Old […]

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The Canon of Guilt

Brian Birnbaum — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 11:30:51 +0000

There’s nothing to indicate that this evening’s 20-minute amble to the Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum will end differently. We take to the block like another of our twilight strolls. Down 150th, greeting neighbors and their dogs. Up Broadway, passing the flower shop, Taqueria San Pedro, a bodega that smells inexorably of frying bacon. Along […]

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Everyone Gets a Dog

Sarah Kasbeer — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:30:02 +0000

I found my soft, shiny stuffed dog on a tree of puppets at a souvenir shop in Big Sur. He was the color of asphalt with glossy plastic eyes that disappeared under his dark fur and floppy ears, making him look more like a bunny than a black Lab. His rear-end was plump and his […]

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Puppy Parenthood

Alena Dillon — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:36:04 +0000

She was a 14-pound lab-hound mix rescued with her siblings from a cardboard box on the side of the road in Kentucky. She was lanky and floppy, with big paws and ears she’d eventually grow into. When my husband picked her up and cradled her against his chest, she looked up at him and licked […]

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Watch Out, Little Red

Bernd Brunner — Tue, 17 May 2016 11:00:37 +0000

Dogs were “the first large creature who would live with men,” Barry Hulston Lopez writes in his classic of wolf-literature, Of Wolves and Men. But there are different theories as to when wolves and humans came together and how exactly the transition from Canis lupus to Canis familiaris came about. Did shy wolves approach humans because […]

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The Wild Dogs of Istanbul

Bernd Brunner — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:12:43 +0000

No, you’d rather not cuddle with them. They seem a little too unpredictable and unkempt for that. And it’s not tempting to project human characteristics on them either. But it is easy to feel sorry for some of them, who bear traces of injuries, disease, and accidents. Most resemble one another: large, with a light-brown, […]

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Bitch, Please

Jesse Smith — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:12:43 +0000

Go to a dog show on a rainy day and the first thing you notice is the smell. This probably shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s ever owned a dog or been around a dog or heard people talk about just how bad a wet dog smells, but it does. Those dogs […]

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Emotional Animals

Morgan Meis — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:12:43 +0000

Legislation has recently been proposed in Spain to give monkeys the full legal rights of human beings. The bill calls specifically for, “the immediate inclusion of (simians) in the category of persons, and that they be given the moral and legal protection that currently are only enjoyed by human beings.” Somewhere the ghost of William […]

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