Sweet Tibbit’s Very Bad Day
She thought it was a great idea at the time. A remarkable opportunity even. How often is a dog left alone in the basement after all? As she snacked her way through the tasty cat box bites, Miss Tibbit...
View Article10 Reasons Miss Tibbit The Useless Little Black Dog May Not Lick My Face
10. Miss Tibbit is a dog and has aromatic dog mouth. 9. She licks the floor. 8. She licks the sidewalk. Oh, why? Because it has on it flavorful substances like gum, bird crap, spit. 7. Miss Tibbit...
View ArticleHamish the Corgi Achieves Master Craftsdog Status
Press Release: With the intuitive senses of a nascent master of his craft, Hamish eyed the 107th Annual Strawberry festival at the Church of the Good Shepherd at the corner of Jewett and Summit...
View ArticleMiss Tibbit, the Useless-Little-Black-Dog, had a bad week.
Friday: There was a horrendous, apocalyptic thunderstorm and she was forced to go out into the yard for bedtime peeing while the storm still rumbled in the distance. It was scary. Saturday. It was...
View ArticleMiss Tibbit Takes Herself to Brunch.
“I’m feeling peckish,” Miss Tibbit, the Useless-Little-Black-Dog, thought to herself this sunny Saturday morning. She was curled tight on the Big Bed next to the Person. She laid there for a few...
View ArticleWalking dogs in the fall has a certain frisson.
The leaves changed in here Buffalo in that last week or two. An orangey road glow replaces the striking sun to shadow dichotomy of summer. Bowers formed by century-grown wrinkled and twisted tree...
View ArticleLemme me see the other side.
I’ll tell you what. I have lived in Minnesota. I know what cold feels like. I spent a couple of winters in Anchorage. I know what big snow looks like. I grew up at the South Jersey shore. I am...
View ArticleThree’s Company, Two’s Just Awkward
As it turns out, Miss Tibbit the Useless Little Black Dog and I don’t have all that much to say to each other. Hamish the Corgi was in the dog hospital yesterday. This left Miss Tibbit and I alone in...
View ArticleSweet Tibbit gets her money’s worth out of a jelly bean.
Hamish the Corgi and Miss Tibbit can’t stop thinking about jelly beans. I’m looking at Sweet Tibbit now and she’s laying on the window seat gazing into the middle distance. She seems vacuous,...
View ArticleMy work colleagues are dogs. And no, I’m not a sheepherder.
Miss Tibbit the Useless Little Black Dog and Hamish the Corgi work with me all the day long. And they work hard on their dog chores. Miss Tibbit holds the cushion down on the chair. Hamish holds the...
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