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Old #Dogs, No Tricks

“The Pain of Loving Old Dogs”, Margaret Renkl’s beautiful column in The New York Times today, will not only touch your heart and soul — but also reminds you of what a gift it is to have a dog in the first place! (NYT)

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Grief Is A Thing With…Fur? #dogs #novel

[image error]Sigrid Nunez’s new novel, The Friend (Riverhead), wryly and thoughtfully details how a woman copes with the loss of a dear friend — when she inherits her late friend’s dog, a gigantic Great Dane named Apollo.

Surely there will be a lot of laughs — and tears — in this one! (Amazon)

Great Holy Ghost #Dogs Story!

The Montgomery family recently lost their beloved family dog — and boy does she (and her neighbors) have a wild tale to tell! (NYT)

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Happy New Year to You and Your #Dogs

Treat yourself, dog lovers, and read this heartwarming end-of-the-year op-ed piece, Inside of A Dog, by Jennifer Finney Boylan, which beautifully describes the pain and glory of dog rescue! (NYT)

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Filed under: Celebrity Dogs, Dog Books, Dog Memoir, Dog News Stories, Dog Non-Fiction, Dog Rescue Non-Profit Tagged: inside of a dog, jennifer finney boylan, new york times

Rescue #Dogs the New Must-See TV!

The Dodo’s Facebook show, COMEBACK KIDS: ANIMAL EDITION, has become so popular online — over 130 million views — that there’s talk it may be moving to cable soon! (BI)

Filed under: Celebrity Dogs, Dog Movies, Dog News Stories, Dog Rescue Non-Profit, Dog TV Shows Commercials, Dog Videos Tagged: comeback kids animal edition, facebook, the dodo

I Triple #Dogs Dare Ya!

In the spirit of A Christmas Story, here are three new-ish dog books that are guaranteed to warm your stockings this year –– Walking With Peety, Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle to Find A Home, and Saving Sadie: How A Dog That No One Wanted Inspired the World…

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Filed under: Dog Books, Dog Memoir, Dog Non-Fiction, Dog TV Shows Commercials, Dog Videos Tagged: a christmas story, Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle to Find A Home, elizabeth ridley, eric o'grey, joal derse dauer, mikael l...

Who Do You Love More: #Dogs or People?

I’m usually not a fan of these clickbait polls, but this new study cited on Business Insider seems to find most dog lovers have a serious bias towards their furrier friends. (BI)

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Filed under: Celebrity Dogs, Dog News Stories, Dog Rescue Non-Profit, Dog TV Shows Commercials Tagged: love dogs more than people, people love dogs more than humans

“He was an aging rockstar.” #dogs

Filed under: Celebrity Dogs, Dog News Stories, Dog TV Shows Commercials, Dog Videos Tagged: dog, george, ryan gosling, tribute

These New Books #LoveDogs

[image error][image error]A couple new dog books featured in The New York Times today — Afterglow (by Eileen Myles) and Fetch: How A Bad Dog Brought Me Home (Nicole J. Georges) — showcase how these two female authors’ respective dogs not only made them better artists, but better people as well! (NYT)

Filed under: Dog Books, Dog Humor, Dog Memoir, Dog Non-Fiction, Dog Rescue Non-Profit Tagged: afterglow, eileen myles, fetch, how a bad dog brought me home, nicole j. georges

New Wes Anderson trailer: ISLE OF #DOGS

Wes Anderson, the colorful director of The Royal Tenenbaums and The Grand Budapest Hotel, has made an epic stop-motion animated movie about dogs…

Filed under: Celebrity Dogs, Dog Movies, Dog TV Shows Commercials, Dog Videos Tagged: dog movie, isle of dogs trailer, wes anderson