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I Love Dogs, I Really Do

By MichaelCrawford (Wed May 04, 2005 at 07:58:50 PM EST) (all tags)

... but one thing I don't love about them is that if they throw up, you have to catch them real quick or they'll gobble it back up.

Twiggy was begging for food again afterwards (after all, she lost her supper) so I went out and bought some tuna, and gave them a half a can each. (Had to share with Jacob or he just wouldn't have understood.)

I've been a cat lover all my life. I've always had cats: my parent gave me my first one, Tiger, while I was still an infant. We had a German shepherd named "Dog" when I was a teenager, but he was really my Dad's dog. He followed Dad home one day from the store and he took him in.

It was my wife Bonita who taught me to love dogs in general, and beagles in particular.

Twiggy:

We named her after the British model because she is so thin. It was heartbreaking actually, she was emaciated when we adopted her, and she used to go just crazy at mealtimes. Someone abandoned her one night, tied to the gate at the SPCA.

Jacob:

There, is that better?

My article "Earn High by Playing it Clean" is getting a much warmer reception on K5. It should make front page within the hour.

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``warmer reception on K5'' by lm (2.00 / 0) #1 Wed May 04, 2005 at 08:19:31 PM EST

Sounds about right.

So how did you and Bonita meet anyway?

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: She sent me an email to say she liked my web page by MichaelCrawford (2.00 / 0) #2 Wed May 04, 2005 at 08:57:52 PM EST

You'll be surprised at which one it was.
Or not so much that she liked it actually, but to commend me for being so brave as to publish it.
At the time she was a chemistry student at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro, where we live now. I was working a perm job as a programmer in Santa Cruz, California.
I started my own consulting business soon after we met, which has not been an easy way to live, but being able to work out of our home enabled us to move to Newfoundland (where she's from) for our wedding in 2000, then to buy a house in Maine, then (for reasons I explained in last night's diary) to move here in October of 2003.
She's going to art school now, and as I write this, is on a whirlwind tour of Spain with a bunch of her fellow NSCAD students.
CheeseburgerBrown also went to NSCAD. It is quite possibly Canada's top art school.

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+1FP Puppies by ammoniacal (4.00 / 2) #3 Thu May 05, 2005 at 12:27:52 AM EST

You're catching on quickly. This is how we write diaries in these here parts.

Now, please excuse me. I have to go and pack.

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: IVMAWTP by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #6 Thu May 05, 2005 at 07:24:59 AM EST

More puppy pictures is what we need. Lots more puppy pictures. They're cute, delicious, and nutritious!

Also, don't forget the fudge.

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That's a bad thing? by gazbo (2.00 / 0) #4 Thu May 05, 2005 at 01:56:14 AM EST

Surely the dog cleaning most of its vomitous mess up itself is a good thing?

"Engarde!" cried the larvae, huskily. - Scrymarch

: In a sense, yes by MichaelCrawford (2.00 / 0) #5 Thu May 05, 2005 at 02:32:29 AM EST

... but then I get to think about how my dog just enjoyed a supper of vomit.
I'd rather take the trouble to wipe it up, even though I don't like to it's not quite as repulsive as watching my dog eat her own vomit. In most other ways, she's very much a lady.

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