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Posted on June 10, 2019June 14, 2019

At the Dog Writers of America Awards

  My birthday weekend in February brought me a genuine surprise: I won an award from the Dog Writers of America Association for my story in Bark Magazine on the organization…

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Posted on December 2, 2018August 29, 2019

The Black Dog: How Animals Help with Mental Health

While it has been a few months since I have posted, this blog and its readers have been very much on my mind. We are all doing well, although we…

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Posted on April 13, 2018May 5, 2018

Two years of Rufusness

Two years ago today, I spotted an alert looking dog sitting at the edge of an alley wearing a collar with a leash attached, but without a person. He was…

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Posted on March 27, 2018December 2, 2018

De-grossification

As a writer, I have learned that the best way to get me to write is to give myself a deadline. In a similar light, as a homeowner, the best…

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Posted on March 20, 2018January 26, 2019

Big Whoop

  Yesterday, in between writing an article for a fancy pants magazine and dog-walking (because we’re nothing if not glamorous), I learned that The Rufus Files had been nominated for…

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Posted on January 30, 2018April 23, 2018

Tongue Out Tuesday: The Black Spotted Tongue

When Rufus was about six months old – a month after taking him in – I noticed that he had a few new black spots on his tongue. Then a…

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Posted on October 27, 2017April 23, 2018

The Art of Backing Off

Recently I met up with someone whom I had not seen in years. I soon realized why it had been so long. Within half an hour I was getting all…

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Posted on May 27, 2017April 24, 2018

Swag update

The red alert ring has held up brilliantly under  intense large dog chewing. Rufus really digs this thing. There are no plastic shards falling off at all. He carried it…

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Posted on January 3, 2017January 8, 2017

The Battle of Heat Vent Alley

  When Sophie and Rufus are outside in subzero weather, they run around as if the temperature were nothing. It’s pretty impressive. But once they return to the house they…

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Posted on December 28, 2016January 8, 2017

We made it

Christmas is over, and Rufus survived boarding. He did it one previous time back in October for two nights but I was closer, in Colorado Springs. This time I was…

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Posted on December 13, 2016January 8, 2017

Exquisite corpse of an orange thing

What is this? This orange thing in the foreground is a thing that Rufus chewed. I *think* it might have been a part of a broom that he took apart…

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Posted on December 13, 2016January 8, 2017

Gross carpet stain

When I tried cleaning Rufus’ pee stain on the carpet I think I mis-used the Bac-Out by Biokleen. The directions say to saturate the stain with this, and instead I…

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Posted on December 12, 2016December 15, 2016

Free to be you and me, at three

At three a.m. Rufus vomited up the part of the towel and soft glasses case he managed to chew while crated. I was at a production of Hedwig and the…

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Posted on December 8, 2016June 1, 2017

I always tell him he’d look good in anything

It’s less than fifteen degrees out, and the doodle-bug is having a blast running around the back yard, coat-free. I think I’ll take his respectable Republican cloth coat back to the…

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Posted on December 7, 2016January 8, 2017

Animal Control

In that first week, I posted Rufus’ picture on my neighborhood Facebook page and checked in with local shelters. I also looked around for “lost animal” notices pinned to trees…

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