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In her early days with her dog, Ambrose, and partly due to his apparent swagger of indifference, Jenny tells me she’d underestimated his sensitivity. In frustrating training moments, his gaze often seemed focused off in the distance, she says, “like he was some guy I was boring at a party,” and so she gradually began…
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In the cathedral of my morning, only the laptop screen illuminates my hands as I begin to click out letters to make meaning. But then I am jarred by the sound of gnawing. Here I have shown up, habitually earnest, like a monk who has risen for matins. But something has changed, because there is…
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Downward Dog is a restorative pose for experienced practitioners, but can be hard work for beginners. — Wikipedia I was first introduced to downward dog by a yoga teacher who made all sorts of pleasure noises as she guided us into the pose: “hips toward the sky, arms outstretched, long back, neck relaxed, hands planted,…
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The first dog I had as an adult was spectacular, an enormous, mostly black Malamute. Adults gawped, and kids would sometimes ask from a respectful distance, “Is he a wolf?” Though it’s been decades, there are people in that town who still remember me as that magnificent dog’s companion, folks who recall the tableau of…
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My two hound mixes have been dead for a couple of years now, and all I’m left with is this terrier-chihuahua something-or-other who occasionally looks more like a cartoon rendering than an actual dog. Battle-scarred, bug-eyed, and half-deaf, she’s adapted over the years by pushing more and more of her consciousness into her nose. And…
being with dogs 