Observing my dog Ace over the past year – at the beach, in the mountains, in deserts, forests, city streets, suburban lawns and campgrounds all across the USA — I’ve noticed that he is much more interested in some forms of wildlife than…
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Speaking of curious routes …
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A good year before I was born, my father wrote a letter while sitting in Korea, and sent it back home to friends in North Carolina. A week ago, it came back to him — in Arizona. “It’s so damn…
Ace makes an impression on kindergarten classes
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Ace made a big impression on pre-k and kindergarten students at Baltimore’s Lakewood Elementary School yesterday, dazzling them with tricks, soaking up their pats and hugs and swearing in two classrooms whose students took the “Oath of Kindness,” a pledge to…
Old dogs, new tricks, good times
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How could you not love a guy whose last name ends with “mutt?” How could you not be smitten with a man with the mug of a pug, the work ethic of a sled dog; the insatiable curiosity of a…