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Dear Riley:
While you are my puppy and I love you so, it’s kind of unacceptable to shred my work notebook while I’m playing softball. Back to the kennel for you.
Love,
Me

Whose gay dog passed his first round of obedience class tonight? Why, that’d be mine. $80 later, my dog can do absolutely nothing he didn’t know before… but that’s okay. Not the point, right?
I actually have a goal for Little Riley Fancy Pants. And it’s this - the AKC’s Canine Good Citizen Program (CGC, for [...]

There was the zoo, a fundraising Booby-Q with a Hawaiian theme, a charity walk, Pizza Luce, riding the train, and not enough sleep.
Good news? My dog likes wearing grass skirts and leis.
Booby-Q pictures here.
AIDSWalk pictures here.

Little Gay Riley Pants and I just spent 1.5 hours at the vet to learn that he had 2 mites. He’s on medication now for the next 45 days. He also had a secondary yeast infection on both his back paws. Don’t worry. If it wasn’t my dog, I’d make a douche joke, too.

Drop It [...]

Let’s say you’re at a softball game. This softball game is usually 7 innings long. But now we’re in the bottom of the 8th. The game is tied again, and you’ve got runners on 2nd and 3rd. Who do you want up to bat?
I can tell you who I don’t want up to bat, and [...]

Last night, Little Riley Pants had his first night of puppy class. I’m sorry, that’s Better Dog I class.
Now, Riley knows his name and can sit, shake, lay down, jump, hug, and pee on the floor. He pretty much has all of those mastered in any order. But not with other new dogs around.
Our first [...]

My dog has a photo shoot in May. A real one.
Through his profile on Dogster.com, a local Twin Cities photographer found his pictures and sent me an email a couple of months ago. I just got around to reading/answering it.
She’s putting together a book of some of her best pet photographs. While she already has [...]

Puppy class started Tuesday night. Since it was the first night, there were no puppies, just people.
I can’t take classes for a reason. That reason? I get too involved in the people in my class. I look at them, I listen to them, and then I analyze and critique them until I’ve completely tuned out [...]

I woke up at 5:30 this morning, which is an hour earlier than I need to. So, I went back to sleep.
In that hour of extra sleep, I had a dream that my dog carried a bottle of orange juice into my room. It was one of the gigantic Sunny Delight containers that I actually [...]

Headed to the dog park.

Heading home afterwards.