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Showing posts with label pets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pets. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

If you're taking a stroll around Webster, Mass, BOLO

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As anyone who grew up in Worcester County knows, the honors for the longest name for any geographic whatever - mountain, canyon, river, lake...
Thursday, November 09, 2023

Has your duck gotten its flu shot yet?

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A few weeks ago, I got my jab. Double jab, actually: next round of covid, annual flu. What I did not get was vaccination against avian flu. ...
Tuesday, May 04, 2021

How much is that doggy up for lease now? The one with the waggly tail?

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Honestly. I really do want to get a dog. I just haven't gotten around to it. Yet. Which is not surprising, given that there are plenty o...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Cassowary for sale

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There’s something to be said for dying while doing something you love, and that’s what happened a few weeks ago to a Florida fellow. Marvin ...
Wednesday, March 07, 2018

Just us Silicon Valley chickens

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I was talking to a guy at the gym/PT the other day, and he mentioned that his wife is a dog trainer, and a dog trainer-trainer. One of her t...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

An emotional support peacock? And I thought emotional support snakes were out there…

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Since the passenger was an artist, and a performance artist at that, I’m guessing that trying to bring a peacock onboard a flight as an “emo...
Friday, January 12, 2018

More evidence of the wonderfulness of doggos

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Every once in a while, amid all the bad or unfathomable or annoying news, there’s a smile- or tear-inducing human or, in this case, canine- ...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

And you didn’t think anything could get worse for United? Hah!

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In March, PR Week named United CEO Oscar Munoz its Communicator of the Year for 2017. Since then, Communicator Munoz has had plenty of oppo...
Thursday, March 02, 2017

How much is that doggy in the window? Read the fine print and find out.

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The best place to get a puppy is, of course, a shelter. Or a breeder. But sometimes people go to pet stores. Which is what Californian Dawn ...
Monday, October 31, 2016

Boo? No, boo-hoo. A very sad Halloween for the Rogers family.

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I’ve always loved Halloween. As a kid, you were out after dark, on your own marauding around the neighborhood with a bunch of your friends, ...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Forget cemeterian, how about being a dog telepath

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Well, the other day, I was looking through the Brookline Adult Ed catalogue, and they had a listing for a one-day preparing-for-your-death c...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Power to the dog turd! (Or from the dog turd.)

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For the next couple of nights, I’ll be babysitting my dog nephew Jack while his folks tote my niece off to college. Jack is the apotheosis o...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Do They Know It’s Christmas?

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Well, I’m all for Christmas presents for pets. This year, the pet in my life – my sister Trish’s black lab – is getting a box of Greenies ...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

Pet friendly

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Patricia Marx had an excellent piece in The New Yorker a few weeks back on the new pet-owner trend in which those who can’t stand being sep...
Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Golf goes to the dogs. (As do plenty of other unwitting consumers…)

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Perhaps because dogs are people, too, I find the idea of eating dog completely appalling. In a way that I don’t find the idea of eating chic...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Consider the Snood: Canine Edition

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Why,  just four short years ago, I was considering the snood , which, in November 2009 was being trend-spotted. Trend-spotted, as we well ...
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