My Life in Dog Years
“We lived in a small cottage in the mountains of Colorado, where I worked in construction, mostly hitting my fingers with a hammer and making serious attempts at cutting something off my body with power saws while I tried to build houses during the day and write at night I had been looking at the local consumer guide, called The Shopper’s Bulletin, when I saw an ad: EMERGENCY! AM LEAVING FOR HAWAII FOR A CAREER CHANGE. MUST FIND HOME FOR LOVING GREAT DANE NAMED CAESAR AS THEY WON’T ALLOW DOGS IN... THE ISLANDS. PLEASE HELP!
All right—I know how it sounds. Nobody who lives in a small cottage in the mountains of Colorado with a wife and baby should probably even consider a pet, let alone a dog, let alone a large dog, let alone a very large dog—at least nobody with a brain larger than a walnut. But I had once been associated with a female Great Dane named Dad when I was in the army and had ever since had a warm place in my soul for them. The secondary force, the force that kicks in whenever I visit a dog pound, roared into my mind, the force that says, If you don’t take him, who will?MoreLess
All right—I know how it sounds. Nobody who lives in a small cottage in the mountains of Colorado with a wife and baby should probably even consider a pet, let alone a dog, let alone a large dog, let alone a very large dog—at least nobody with a brain larger than a walnut. But I had once been associated with a female Great Dane named Dad when I was in the army and had ever since had a warm place in my soul for them. The secondary force, the force that kicks in whenever I visit a dog pound, roared into my mind, the force that says, If you don’t take him, who will?MoreLess
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