In addition to having an infatuation for water, our new puppy is also blessed with a very special brain. You see, it has a built in “lag factor.” She needn’t be under the influence of mind-altering chemicals (I suppose water will do). There don’t have to be any distractors in the environment. [...]
Zamba is a consummate water lover! She likes it any way she can get it: drinking, slobbering, falling from the sky, or in her swimming pool. The first thing she did when she got home and found the water bowl, after taking thirty enormous gulps, was to stick her feet in the [...]
That’s Zamba to you.
Several months ago we began our search for a Newfoundland (a.k.a. “newfie” or “newf”) puppy. Several breeders, stillborn litters, and heart murmurs later, we found our Zamba:
She’s been with us at home for six days now, having spent a nice, long 11 weeks with her litter before making her way up [...]
Sounds romantic, doesn’t it? Windsor Locks. In truth, it’s a small suburb of Hartford. The airport suburb. Bleh. I’m sitting in Friendly’s, a northeast U.S. chain joint apparently renowned for poor service. (I asked Kathy about it and got a comment circa 1990: “well, all I remember is [...]
One of the great challenges of my day job is finding ways to communicate effectively with
(a) a subject matter than vastly exceeds the time allotted for information conveyance,
(b) an audience that may exhibit a high degree of finickiness for either detail or breadth,
(c) a time frame that may not be fully determined prior to beginning.
Basically, [...]
Yesterday I received a package with some new dog training equipment I ordered online. Also enclosed in the box was a tiny zip-lock bag with 2.5 “Sample Multigrain Beef Tomato” dog treats inside. Each treat was about the size of, say, an almond. Even that might be generous.
Presumably the company I bought [...]