Comments on: An Open Letter to Our Dog

By: Cindi @Frugal New England Kitchen

Cindi @Frugal New England Kitchen — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 01:16:00 +0000

Wishing you the best of luck! We are now dog-free. Our Black Lab was the greatest however when our daughter boomeranged back home, she brought her not-housebroken beagle with her. Beagles are notorious. He was banned and put up for adoption.

Good grief! And here all along I thought it was just our cat who preferred the carpet all these 16 years!

By: Georgia

Georgia — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:41:42 +0000

Just read this blog and thank you! I haven’t lol so much in a long time. My dog thinks it is his job to bring the cat’s “clumped litter” to the kitchen to show me “how bad that cat is” … oh if only they could understand when we talk to them.

By: Anita

Anita — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:40:11 +0000

Thank you so much for the site. Absolutely hilarious! I’m on the internet at the library, and the laugh-out-loud moments are glorious.

Just had a thought about the preference for textured surfaces (Carpet! Always the carpet!) as opposed to smooth (blessed tile or lino, etc). I’ll bet their little paws can’t get a grip on the smooth surfaces. Hard to brace yourself for a stressful peristaltic power-move when you can’t get traction.
Maybe that’s one of many reasons we “hug the porcelain”.

Steady as she goes. . .

By: Telling Dad

Telling Dad — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:05:50 +0000

I don’t see the relevance, but Jackson is neutered. What gave you the impression otherwise?

And no, it didn’t continue, it passed. Turned out to be a random surprise.

By: Barbara Hopkins

Barbara Hopkins — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:04:06 +0000

I don’t know how I ended up here except that it was a link from something else I read today. My questions are: Did Jackson continue doing this for much longer? If yes, did you take him to the vet? And, more importantly, why isn’t your dog neutered? Just sayin’.

By: Patricia Calef

Patricia Calef — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:36:24 +0000

OMG. I love this site. Just discovered it. I have two dogs and seven cats so I am very familiar with cleaning rugs, rugs, and more rugs. Febreeze no longer does the trick. I buy What Oder. (they advertised it on our local news channel and it actually works.) I would rather clean up dog doo then cat pee. I have an older cat who has gotten territorial over me and thinks he needs to pee on my side of the bed. Yuck.

By: Brandina

Brandina — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:30:42 +0000

This is one of the main reasons I won’t own a dog. I have two cats who are, lucky me, very clean for the most part. Hairballs or messes outside of their litter box are rare for the most part. But if I had to clean up after the much larger messes of a dog, well, I can’t handle that.

I keep saying, time and again, that after the cats I have are gone I’m going to be done with pets completely. I’ve been saying this for many years, but for some reason, the loss of one just makes me want another.

By: hogsatemysister

hogsatemysister — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:34:43 +0000

OK, it’s on.

My Moosedawg against Jackson.

No rules.

Winner takes all.

May the best pooper win.

P.S. Extra points for maggots.

P.S.P.S. Ack.

By: karen

karen — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 02:40:30 +0000

I’m back to re-comment. I would like to say I am surprised that this post still gets comments — getting reminders of having read this story via the much later readers is like having Christmas come unexpectedly and random throughout the year.

This story has legs, man. You should be proud.

By: Lala

Lala — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:16:06 +0000

OMG I’m dying over here!