I will admit it - I am a dog-ist. I prefer my dogs to be BIG. The droolier and sillier they are, the better in my mind. Perhaps its in my genes, I come from a long line of big dog loving women. My grandmother always had rough coat collies when I was a kid, and my mom had setters and shepherds. The joke in our family is that my first word was "dog" , followed closely by "mine" and "no". These probably remain my 3 most used dogs, with a few more adult words I have since l

Over and over we are asked by potential adopters for dogs who are "non-pitbull" and great with kids. Yet, we have one and he just cannot seem to catch a break. NOT. A. ONE. Our history with this dog is long and sordid (well actually more just long, and less sordid) but starts with him ending up at a local shelter last fall as an approx 1 year old fun-loving, energetic hound mix who was returned when his family was moving. Housebroken, and good with kids. All BIG check mar

Sometimes there are some dogs who just hit you right in the feels and get to you more than all the other homeless dogs (although believe me, they all get to you). This blog is dedicated to those extra special ones that just seem to get to us, maybe because they remind us of a dog we used to know, or because they just seem to have rotten luck, or we are feeling extra hormonal one day. Regardless of the why, these dogs become the *who*, the reason we do what we do. Some of th