We bought a dog bed for Maud when she was a puppy, which in hindsight was very optimistic of us. It was immediately clear she would never use it. Instead, she installed herself in our bed like a permanent fixture, often wedged directly between my husband and me, her head on the pillow with her […]
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Maud was born on Dec. 29, one of those inconvenient, post-Christmas, pre–New Year’s orphaned birthdays that humans tend to resent. People with late-December birthdays always speak in the fragile tones of hostages: “No, it’s fine, really. Christmas counts for both.” It never does. But for a dog, it’s perfect. The humans are home, slightly dazed […]
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Since she was a puppy, Maud has accompanied us to work at the TV station. What began as a quiet office companion quickly turned into an accidental on-air presence, her head popping up behind the news desk like a rogue sock puppet during a live broadcast. And from there, she became a fixture of CHCO-TV […]
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