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Monthly Archives: February 2008

BAD DOG OBIT, PART TWO

Gumbo earned the alpha dog title after one solid year of jockeying for position.
At four months old, he came to live with us–four humans and two older dogs, one a three-year-old male, the other an eight-year-old female. When adolescence hit, he began to challenge Jack, the male, who outweighed him by twenty pounds but was [...]

BAD DOG OBIT, PART ONE

It was my turn to get a dog. I met Gumbo online, through the Denver Dumb Friends League. I had said I wanted the kind of dog who cocks his head sideways at you when you say something interesting. This one did. He also knocked over an office chair to watch its wheels spin, and [...]