Black doggies need luv

An item came my way this morning (newspaper under the desk, luckily Star is clumsy) about how big black dogs often get sent to the pound—or worse. We know what I mean by worse—worse does not mean no TV for a week. “Big black dogs just don’t get adopted,” an ASPCA guy said in this [...]

Maggie, Casey, Dax and Chewy

Check them out—these guys can be viewed at 3busydogs.com/ourstory.htm. Maggie, they say, is not very busy, so they named their company 3 Busy Dogs. (Maggie is apparently pretty flat, like moi, although she does have a third dimension and is not a Clipart.) Chewy is the Golden Retriever, Dax is the Rottweiler and Casey [...]

Little do they know

These two, Star and Nancy, always think they know what I am thinking. Sometimes, I am not thinking anything, people! I am gestating. This is what THEY call it when they are staring into space and not typing. They say it’s because writing and typing are not the same; writing takes lots of “gestating,” whatever [...]

Tales of other working dogs

If you think collecting for Star and Nancy and keeping them amused is not work, you just don’t know work when you hear it complained about. But I gotta say, traveling to Iraq as a therapy dog would be challenging. Sometimes the paper falls to the floor and I catch a couple of paragraphs.
Seems Budge [...]

Sure, a movie star’s dog gets ink

Paul Newman, big sighs, blue eyes—I have heard of him. The other day, I read on a package of his dog treats that he lets his dog write copy.
If that’s his picture on there, he is some hairy Scottie type. According to this, he is coming out with a “tell all” on Paul, and these [...]

My ancient soulmate

Nancy and Star agree on almost everything. Has anyone even seen them in the same room together. See? I thought not.
But Star likes Archy, the Typing Cockroach, and Nancy thinks roaches, even the poets, could use a good mashing. I am on the fence, personally. I am a little jealous of the Arch-Man—he invented animal [...]

Short and cheesy

Those two—they never stop thinking. The other day they thought they should ask the Kraft Company to advertise on their sites. Star (who can’t cook, I’m here to tell ‘ya) eats a lot of the yellow–orange ambrosia. Comfort food for starving writers. Sure, don’t even mention Alpo, Pedigree and Beneful. It’s okay. I am quite [...]

Sad really—so many dogs without insurance

I hear that pets can get health insurance now. I told my peeps, but they said they can barely afford it for themselves, the vets are nicer than their doctors anyhow, not to bother them with this, didn’t self-employed people have enough to worry about, and so on. The usual.
Then I heard an ad for [...]

Learned under the desk

As a purebred Clipart, I lie pretty flat in the kneehole of a desk. Though I don’t miss my third dimension, I do enjoy a nice towel under me. As I snooze under here, I hear a lot.
These two women are chatterboxes, though they live on opposite coasts, one in Arizona, the other in West [...]

Ruger and Remington rocked

I saw the coolest show on Nat Geo last night, “Dogtown,” about the big Best Friends sanctuary in Kenab, Utah. Basically, it’s a desert full of dogs and every other animal you can think of. Star and Nancy would contribute part of their profits on Writers Catablog to Best Friends, if you people buy anything. [...]