DIANA REPUBLIC

Our dogs have issues. I mean, really, could they be my dogs without them? If they were Bob’s and Bob’s alone they would probably be totally well adjusted, but throw me in the mix and there is like a reverse magnetic reaction and everything goes a little wonky. Case in point: Mike the yellow lab, [...]

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Goose is the younger brother and as such it is his reponsibility to torment his older brother on a pretty much nonstop basis. It is cute the way he grabbed Mike’s tail in his mouth. It is adorable the way he hangs from Mike’s neck. It is all cute to us, but not to Mike. And really after [...]

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A friend once said that a Chicago summer is as if everyone was given just three months to live. The minute the weather breaks the lakeshore is busy with runners, bikers and roller bladers. The beachfront restaurants are open and the sunscreen is in the air. Women of all ages bust out summer attire that [...]

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Saturday was our first day of Puppy Class. Bob and I were excited to begin training Goose and generally speaking the more time we spend with dogs the happier we are. It is a small class with a baby cocker spaniel, two bitty pit bull mixes, a tiny Yorkshire Terrier and our silly Goose. Goose [...]

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There is a reason God made puppies so cute: no one would care for them if they weren’t. It has been four years since we had a puppy in the house. It is not as if I had completely forgotten the downsides of raising the little fur balls. It ‘s just that I may have [...]

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One of the reasons we chose to add another dog to our family was because Mike, our yellow Labrador American child, had always lived in a multiple dog home. (All the other reasons were purely selfish except the one about rescuing a shelter pup.) It would stand to reason that when we suddenly became a [...]

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It should come as no surprise to anyone who knows us or reads this blog that Bob and I have adopted a puppy. As it turns out it is easier to find a canine companion than a mate. This is pretty much where the puppy hunt and dating comparison ends and the puppy care and [...]

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I am back in the market, scanning the match site and making plans to meet new…….dogs. We were planning on adding another to pooch to our pack before Larry was diagnosed with cancer. We are all about the family planning and fully intended to adopt a third dog sometime this spring, but we tabled that [...]

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In an effort to memorialize my sweet Larry, I got a tattoo on Monday night. Bob took me directly from the vet to the tattoo parlor (is that what they are called? parlors? or am I just old?). I am the proud wearer of a paw print on my wrist. Just a little something to [...]

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My heart is breaking today. At 4:30 this afternoon I have an appointment to have my best friend put to sleep. Eleven years ago I met him at a shelter. He was the runt in a litter of eight puppies and the last un-adopted male. I picked him up to see what we thought of [...]

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