In addition to all the fun I get to have with digital video and still cameras, audio recorders, and powerful computers with large HD monitors, I also get to write about my dogs. Hey, text as a medium falls under the umbrella of “multimedia journalism” doesn’t it? My writing appears as a blog on TheDay.com, […]

An excerpt from the latest post on my “Dog Blog” on http://www.theday.com: “Apparently writing this blog has turned me into an advice columnist. My friend Raj emailed me to say that his family was getting a dog. A doodle, actually. Now he already knows my distaste for designer dogs, so I won’t call him out […]

For a friendly, good-natured dog, Remy has built up a surprisingly long list of enemies in her four-plus years with us. The list has grown to include cats, squirrels, the lawn mower, garbage cans, recycling bins, kids across the street playing basketball, mail carriers, pizza delivery guys, the garbage truck, car alarms, car doors, trick-or-treaters, […]

Is there another breed of dog besides Labrador retrievers that is so often identified with the color of its coat? Whenever I mention that I own two Labs, invariably, the first question is “What color are they?” Everyone wants to know are they black, yellow, or chocolate? This never came up during my childhood. No […]

I share a lot of things with my dogs: a love of outdoor activities, space on the couch… One thing we don’t share, however, is a constantly sunny outlook. Take this morning, for example. My a.m. routine recently has consisted of a two-to-three-mile solo run followed by a one-mile walk with the dogs. They eagerly […]

As I’m sitting down to write this, Remy is spinning around in her dog bed violently pawing at the ground. Just when I think she’s going to claw right through to the floor, she turns two more circles and collapses in a huff. We have five dog beds in our house and I’ve seen both […]

Monday should have been a great day. It was Labor Day, a day off from work with classic end-of-summer weather. It was also my 30th birthday, and we had tickets for the right field roof at Fenway Park. But Monday turned out to be an awful day for my wife, Jen, and our dog Remy. […]

We recently returned from a ten-day vacation, and my excitement at being reunited with the dogs was slightly tempered by the rainforest that had overtaken my back yard. Surprisingly, in my absence, no Good Samaritan had spontaneously decided to push their mower up and down the overgrown hillside behind my house. The dogs, who treat […]

When I arrived home from work on Monday, all I wanted to do was sit down. It had been a long, full weekend and an earlier shift than normal at the office, and I was feeling a little sleepy. The dogs had other ideas… READ THE FULL POST HERE