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I live an epic life, my friends. Case in point, this past Monday. I manfully wrenched a glass doorknob from its moorings in my new place. I don’t mean I pulled the knob off, I mean I tore the fucking thing in two. “RRRRAAAARGGGH!” I cried in primal rage as I cracked the orb with my bare hand. That’s mostly true. What really happened is that I tried to open the door to my bedroom and the knob came off in my hand. I thought I had pulled the center bit of the lock out so that I wasn’t going t

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Dogs are pack animals and many of their behaviors reflect this fact. When you get a new puppy one of the initial and the most notable things that you can do is to create authority. You are the “pack leader” and you must act appropriately. Puppies will use a major amount of time trying to figure out where they fit into the hierarchy. They generally do this by trying to establish their own dominance. Some breeds are more forceful than others, for case in point, the terrier breeds. Some of the

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Dogs are pack animals and many of their behaviors reflect this reality. When you get a new puppy one of the first and the most central things that you can do is to create dominance. You are the “pack leader” and you must act correspondingly. Puppies will use up a major amount of time trying to figure out where they fit into the chain of command. They usually do this by trying to set up their own dominance. Some breeds are more domineering than others, for case in point, the terrier breeds

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How Much Does a Dog Cost?My wife and I have been thinking about getting a dog for over a year now. It seems that whenever we think about it seriously, we have an important trip planned. (Case in point, I'm writing this flying somewhere over Kansas - I think). We've started to begin the search for Fido a more seriously in recent weeks. We've spent a lot of time looking online and visited with animal shelters. We've learned a lot along the way. For one, don't call an animal shelter a "pound" - t

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Some dates just cannot slip by unnoticed. Today, October 13th, is a case in point for me. It was the birthday of my brother Syd, who died 11 years ago, aged 57, and would have been 69 today had he still been with us. My siblings were certainly strung out in age-gaps. I was the eldest, followed by Syd five years later, Doreen arrived on the scene 10 years after him and, finally, Alan joined us after a further five years, making the total period for the four of us one of 20 years. I think my moth

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