Word: dogdom
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...outside before running out the door (thanks to some basic training with the command sit). And although Divenuto's son Marc, 5, is just a few inches taller than the family dog, Jackson even follows the youngster's commands to sit and stay. "There's no democracy in dogdom," says Kilcommons, who preaches that people--not their pets--should always...
...that Stallings deftly takes something that the reader (presumably) knows well and uses it to reflect on a deeper philosophical theme. The well-known story of Penelope, for example, is turned on its heels as Stallings reflects on relationships and fidelity; In a poem entitled “The Dogdom of the Dead,” Stallings draws some remarkable parallels between the deceased and pet dogs in order to reflect on how we are affected by the death of loved ones...
...heat, Lyndon began walking. He heard his beagles, Him and Her, the First Family of dogdom yapping. "Let's get the dogs," he said. "They-all heard you talkin' and they want to go too." On his fourth lap around the driveway, the President turned the panting beagles over to a Secret Service man, explained, "They're gettin' hot." So were the 60 reporters, but Lyndon loped on, talking about the convention. "John Pastore was just excellent," said Johnson, who had personally phoned the Rhode Island Senator to congratulate him after his keynote address. "My barber...
...second person in the U.S. to own a registered Belgian Malinois, whose real name, le Malinois, chien de berger a poll court fauve charbonne, is the longest in dogdom. Apartment dwellers-or at least their neighbors-will favor the Basenji, a terrier-sized hunting dog once kept by the Egyptian pharaohs that never barks. But he whines, groans and gargles, and when happy makes a noise described as "a cross between a croon and a yodel." As for burglars-packs of Basenjis are used to hunt gorillas in their native Africa...
...news gives all dogdom paws. At the daily "twilight bark," an "All Dog Alert" goes out: Where oh where have those little dogs gone? They have gone, it seems, to join 84 other puppies in Cruella de Vil's Dalmatian Extermination Location, where they successfully and hilariously dodge the executioners until yelp arrives...