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Ask a Terrier: Don’t Hold the Phone!
Zoe the Poodle’s credo: “What’s yours is mine. And what’s mine is mine!”
But when it comes to stealing a cell phone, Budleigh must help a Giant make the call.
Ask a Terrier: Wake Up and Smell the COVID!
Are you a working dog if it’s just your nose?
Budleigh examines how Canines are helping fight the coronavirus.
Gamesmanship…uh, DOGship
Ask a Terrier: Talkin’ TED
Have you taught your dog to speak?
Then she’s ready to give a TED Talk!
Budleigh explains.
Don’t Worry. He’s Vicious…
Whether to walk a dog leashed or off leash is roiling into the sort of controversy not seen since America asked itself, “Who shot J.R.?” Many still suspect it was an off-leash dog.
Please, Don’t Get Up!
Why Everyone Hates Your Dog, By Which I Mean My Dog
Canines have lived in symbiotic harmony with humans for more than 30,000 years. Except in my neighborhood.
Marketing Your Dog
In full-throated summer, colorful, chaotic farmers markets offer a hot weather oasis where you can shop for locally produced, organically grown corn while your dog is torn apart by vicious, unsupervised hellhounds.
Watch Your Step, Giants!
A Quiet, Retiring Dog
How heart-warming when a professional dog can retire before she’s blown up. So many of us just settle for Medicare.
Ask a Terrier: Budleigh Takes a Walk on the Wild Side
When is wildlife too wild for dogs?
Budleigh explains how to be animal pals, not prey.
Ask a Terrier: Dogs and Children – When Species Collide
Dogs love children! And not just as a viable food source.
Budleigh explains why.
Ask a Terrier: Budleigh Analyzes Therapy
This pooch aspires to be a therapy dog. Any advice?
Sure! Budleigh’s full of it!
Independence isn’t for everyone!
Bully for Budleigh!
Like humans, canines have been known to bully their own species, although they rarely steal lunch money and never send harassing texts due to the absence of thumbs.
Tug toys are people, too.
Into the woods without a paddle, Pt. 4
Happy Thanksgimme!
Workin’ Dog or Hardly Workin’?
To own a working dog can be appealing, especially for families that tend to wander aimlessly across the landscape in large, unmanageable herds.
Shoes and Socks – A Taste Test, Part 2: Socks
Any dog serving prison time for chewing shoes will eagerly admit that socks served as a gateway drug. And that he’s a Good Boy!
Budleigh steals socks. That isn’t his fault. We Giants failed him. As did society. And the apparel industry. He no longer chews them as he did during his house-pet-in-training probationary apprenticeship. Just, ya’ know, sort of steals them. For the kicks, man! The thrill! School is for squares, daddio!
Drawing a Line in the Sand in your Bed
In a perfect world, dogs don’t sleep on the bed. But we don’t live in a perfect world. We live in Budleigh’s.