Of the many basically obvious things that seem to escape our dog Roscoe’s comprehension (like that moving cars are dangerous but water sprinklers are not) is that when you go out into our 2-door patio through one open door, you probably re-enter the house through the same open door which you exited. This weekend he [...]
Roscoe is still a puppy and sometimes we forget that, we’re so used to having adult dogs around. Sometimes we make mistakes that are obvious in hindsight – don’t leave shoes around on the floor, keep the door closed to the room with the couch, etc. These types of mistakes we realize too [...]
We adopted Roscoe from a nearby shelter where he was abandoned on the first day of Semana Santa. Why someone would abandon him we can’t understand; we hear stories of how Spanish people don’t respect dogs in the same way we do and often abandon them rather than pay to kennel them when they [...]
Yesterday afternoon we took our dogs on a mountain walk in the Sierra Nevada to La Virgen de las Nieves to escape some of the heat in Granada. After lunch at one of the chiringuitos or little “burger huts” at the bottom we started to head back to our car only to find our [...]
As many of our friends know, one of our dogs (Emmo) died last July and we have been missing him ever since. We knew there would come a time we’d want to find another dog to join us both because we really love dogs and we also think that as curmudgeonly as our other [...]