Yes, the above photo is of the gratuitous, dog-in-a-funny-hat variety, but the linked story is illuminating.  Apparently, parents tired of the never-say-no approach to child-rearing are turning to Cesar Milan’s methods (a/k/a the Dog Whisperer) that...

I have long appreciated the great Vladimir Nabokov (pictured above) for chief among many virtues his decision to write in English after his arrival in America.   I would gladly read anything written by this man, but recently his son has decided to go...

Tuesday Diversions have happy endings.  The story of the puppies pictured above has brought me back to my own pet-store days.  Apparently, these four above and thirteen others successfully thwarted a dog-napping by their loud yapping and uproarious...

Whenever anyone asks J.F. about what pre-occupation resides at the core of the the novels that feature Yours Truly, he almost always answers (after several awkward moments and false, stammering, starts) something like this: “consciousness is at the...

From time to time, Yours Truly cannot resist the absurd news wire story –it is not as intoxicating as a roll in sidewalk pate, but it has its own delights.  We have no pelicans in New York, but if I were a Chihuahua in pelican country I’d keep one eye...