Details from Jim and Fleet’s practice runs before the Worlds.
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Mick’s father, Fleet, and his breeder, Cheryl Jagger-Williams in Scotland for the Internationals!
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Shadrak at One Year
There’s an ad on TV about the SPCA. Just 18 cents a day, or 19 dollars a month, to help save abused animals. The ad features long holds on the suffering eyes of dogs and cats shivering and lonely in their cages or being held in the arms of beautiful young female volunteers. When I see the ad, my mind goes back to Shadrak. In 1974 my ex-, Cyndie, and I had just moved to Charlottesville where I was to get a doctorate. We had no children and had been struggling with that problem for a few years. We were the proud owners of an Alaskan Malamute, Shadrak, age three. We got him as a fluffy little puppy in Southern Indiana when we were living in a great apartment on Meridian near 38th in Indianapolis. Continue reading
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Confessions about the secret thrill we get from the wolfishness of our dogs.
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A dog-tale of love and perseverance for your Sunday.
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Grace Sleeps through Poetry
First Friday Writing Group, Rollins Campus
Obligingly, into the circle of us, she falls,
clack and hum and hiss of our tongues
catching in the soft folds of her ears.
Intonations of syllables, rise and fall, Continue reading
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Come along with Mick to meet The Dog Liberator!
Mick was lucky enough to spend a couple days with Gisele Veilleux, The Dog Liberator. He got to see what it was like for rescued dogs to enter the world of Ozzie, China, and Lady Di.
Someone’s at the door! China, Lady Di, and Ozzie. (Notice that China is also on guard duty. She’s what Gisele calls “a deafie.” She may be deaf, but it doesn’t stop her from being an awesome dog.)
This where all magic happens. Gisele runs much of the rescue from her computer while her daughter Sarah works beside her. For a day, Mick got to be in the middle of it. Look–Lady Di is bowing before him!
Clockwise from upper left: Sarah, Gisele, Ozzie, Lady Di, and Mick in the middle.
Mick and Ozzie made fast friends.
This was really Mick’s first sleepover at a dog-buddy’s house. They promised they’d be good boys–and they were!
Mick got to help celebrate as Lucy…
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Mick at Four Months
Today I’m going to brave the taboo topic of getting angry at your dog. Nowadays, if you so much as breathe a word against your dog, people look at you like you’re Michael Vick. And take one look at my dog Mick and you’d wonder what is wrong with me that I could ever get angry at him?
Let me begin with a quote from one of my favorite women, Beryl Markham. In West With the Night, she asked upon the birth of a foal, “Will it breathe when it is meant to breathe? Will it have the anger to feed and to grow and to demand its needs?”
Mick at Eighteen Months
Because I am above all things anxious to be a “nice woman,” I’ve often wondered, do I have the anger to demand my needs?
Is that what anger’s for?
Few places is anger more taboo right now than when it’s directed at your dog. And yet, let’s be honest. Dogs can be infuriating. Read more . . .
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If you’ve been researching Border collie adoption, you’ve read the warning labels on all the Border collie websites. They boil down to:
#1. Border collies are maniacs, and no sane person wants one.
#2. Border collies are the coolest dogs in the world, and you aren’t worthy.
By now you’ve concluded that only narcissistic know-it-alls get to have crazy-cool dogs, and you don’t. The reasons they give you look like this:
By now you know that in order to acquire a Border collie, you need to prove that you have:
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