Me, my dogs, and our long march together through evolutionary time

As my lovely wife is fond of saying, we and our beloved doggies are thrown together by fate, but I want to go much further back in time than she’s normally thinking to consider what fate had in store up to a hundred million years ago when humans and canines were one species.  Since every… Continue reading Me, my dogs, and our long march together through evolutionary time

Life lessons from a three legged greyhound

Rosie, three-legged greyhound

For a distance of over fifty yards on reasonably flat ground, our greyhound and our whippet tore across the lawn at well over forty miles per hour in a full-fledged race, almost neck and neck until the greyhound pulled ahead towards the end, despite having only three legs.  That’s the heart of a champion. We… Continue reading Life lessons from a three legged greyhound