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to bringing him home we saw a black bear by the side of the road naming him bear seemed too simple so then we went on the internet and we found a movie we ve never seen brother bear it s an animated film and one of the main characters is named koda it s native american sioux for friend or ally which was exactly what we were hoping he would be when he came into our lives does koda do more to help or hinder your writing i think it might be dead even he helps because in my morning walks which i never did with ginny i often find my mind wandering about whatever i m working on a wandering mind is fast becoming a rare occurrence nowadays when we have so much entertainment podcasts ebooks internet etc at our fingertips at all times so the walks definitely help but koda also takes up a significant part of my attention letting him out boarding him when we re away vet visits etc he s not a difficult dog to have around and most of the time i m upstairs with the cats while my wife is with him downstairs so i m probably casting undeserved blame sorry koda has koda inspired you to create any fictional canines in my fourth novel deep roots i have a whippet named mare who comes into the story nothing too involved kind of like koda himself here s the introductory sentence if the queen of england saw what her majesty s charters looked like she would not be a fan she may even have the palace guards tear down the signage for it featured a dog in a tiara cat postman squirrel we are still attempting to acclimate him to our two cats it s a work in progress koda loves people so if he did see the mail carrier our mailbox is out of sight from him he d probably fall right in love squirrels on the other hand and rabbits and groundhogs though nothing sets him off like deer ball squeaky toy stick koda likes really small stuffed animals and tearing them apart of course we have been showered with many gifts including a wood bone shaped and tastes like wood and a silent squeak toy that only dogs can hear who is koda s best pet pal i d say his best pet bff is cooper a friend s dog he spent an afternoon with him in their yard and they became fast friends neither my wife nor i are social butterflies so i m afraid koda doesn t get a huge amount of fellow canine socialization what is koda s best quality he barks very rarely he does have a rather strange howl yowl combination that he employs when very excited or distressed but by and large he is a silent dog if koda could change one thing about you what would it be can you please be a bit more generous with the treats if koda could answer only one question in english what would you ask him when you have that blank look about you what are you thinking about if hollywood made a movie about your life in which koda could speak who should voice him i wish for michael peña but in reality he s probably more aligned with david hyde pierce what advice would koda give if asked what s not to like visit sung j woo s website q a with sung j woo my book the movie deep roots the page 69 test deep roots writers read sung j woo marshal zeringue posted by marshal zeringue at 12 05 am no comments labels whippets monday july 31 2023 nan fischer boone who is in the photo at right i m nan fischer an author and that s boone beside me he s a vizsla and almost 15 years old what s the occasion for coffee with a canine i always bring a coffee down to the beach boone s favorite spot you can t see my mug in the photo boone would knock it over the beach is his favorite place and even at 14 5 he gets the zoomies once he hits the sand what s brewing i drink my coffee black use a jura machine for perfect crema and prefer stumptown beans any treats for you or boone on this occasion boone doesn t get any treats from me at the beach because pretty much every dog owner down there has some in their pockets boone didn t always trust strangers so it s a great way to get him to interact in a positive way with people he doesn t know and learn to like them how were you and boone united i grew up with rescue beagles from a medical testing facility but allergies led my husband and i to get a vizsla as they re super short haired and easy to keep clean even so my husband had hives around his eyes for a full year before his body got used to boone our dog was rejected from the show ring of course we think he s perfect and so the breeder wanted a home for him where he d have tons of love and exercise and we fit that bill how did your dog get his name any aliases i was flipping through books looking for unique names and saw boone and it just fit as he s a gift and treasure in our lives aliases include monkey sweetpea boonimul and lovebug does boone do more to help or hinder your writing boone definitely helps my writing he sleeps under my desk keeps me company and forces me to take breaks to exercise us both has boone inspired you to create any fictional canines boone is in every single novel i ve written but in the book of silver linings he was the inspiration for a dog named growler who has behavioral problems and is in danger of being euthanized boone too had some pretty serious behavioral issues if my husband and i hadn t been incredibly committed he probably would ve ended up at a shelter with a very bleak future but we were devoted stayed consistent loved him even when it was hard and he s come a very long way and we couldn t be more proud of him cat postman squirrel squirrel for sure ball squeaky toy stick boone loves every stuffed toy he s ever gotten and never rips them apart his favorite is a giant fleece bone who is boone s best pet pal boone has never met a little dog he doesn t love he s over the moon for my sister s dachshund mixes sydney and oskar what is boone s best quality just one he s goofy devoted to us and also lives in the moment if boone could change one thing about people of the pacific northwest what would it be he d probably say that we shouldn t go outside when it rains and is cold but that would be a lot of the winter if boone could answer only one question in english what would you ask him what do you need most from us as you re getting older if hollywood made a movie about your life in which boone could speak who should voice him wow that s a fun question maybe ashton kutcher he strikes me as an actor with an enormous heart like boone what advice would boone give if asked live in the moment try not to bark at strangers and snuggle whenever possible visit nan fischer s website writers read nancy richardson fischer october 2019 my book the movie the speed of falling objects the page 69 test the speed of falling objects marshal zeringue posted by marshal zeringue at 2 05 pm no comments labels vizslas monday march 27 2023 margaret fenton roly lady and mimi who is in the photo at right hello my name is margaret fenton and i am a mystery writer from birmingham alabama usa i write the claire conover social work series which starts with little lamb lost followed by little girl gone and then little white lies i have three dogs and they are all papillons i have a male named roly and two females named lady and mimi in the picture roly is in my lap lady is on the back of the chair and mimi is on the armrest to my right roly and mimi are ten years old and lady is nine what s the occasion for coffee with a canine i drink coffee every day with my canines or anyone else who shows up what s brewing i m going to be totally honest my husband is the coffee snob he buys whole bean coffee and grinds it himself daily we went through a time where he tried every brand of coffee and he says the best is the stuff he gets at sam s club it s called pablo s pride and it comes from guatemala honestly i ll drink anything but this is good stuff and i like it black black black any treats for you or the dogs on this occasion not usually i drink coffee in the morning and we don t eat until lunch how were you and your dogs united ten years ago i wanted a dog i m allergic to cats so a dog was kinda the only option for a furry pet other than some form of rodent no thank you my husband said he wasn t a dog person and we couldn t get one ha so wrong i literally begged and begged until he gave in but his only stipulation was to get one like my brother had at the time my brother and his now ex wife had a papillion named cinderella who was so beautiful and smart so i found a lady here in alabama who had pap puppies for sale i knew i wanted a male and she had three four month olds that were available i went to her house and she took all the females out of the room and i sat on the floor with the three males roly walked over and sat in my lap his birth owner said i think that s your dog no truer statement has ever been uttered so i bring roly home and it takes oh about a month before my husband falls deeply madly and truly in love with roly he looked at me and said go get another one i called roly s birth owner and she had roly s half sister for sale so we got her and that s lady mimi was my above mentioned brother s dog he was very sick with diabetes and complications so we took mimi in several years before he passed away in april of 2022 how did your dogs get their names any aliases roly came out of his mother nice and round and plump so they called him the roly poly one and the name just stuck he s always been very food motivated i was going to change his name to doodlebug and his birth owner told me to call him by the name his knows roly and then say doodlebug after that and eventually drop the roly and he will respond to his new name well in all the chaos of being new pet parents and potty training and everything we got lazy and he just became rolybug so the name change thing didn t go very well lady was named by my two best friends i told them we were getting a female puppy and they said to name her lady and then we d have rolybug and ladybug brilliant mimi was named by my brother and mimi is the japanese word for ears not hard to see why that name was perfect do your dogs do more to help or hinder your writing i don t think they do either they sit on a chair and i take breaks to be a dog butler and get the door for them i swear i m putting that title on my resume have your actual canines inspired the creation of any fictional dogs not yet i have dreams of writing a cozy so we ll see cat postman squirrel squirrel i encourage the chasing of those rat bastards who chew on the wood of my house ball squeaky toy stick lady will chase a small tennis ball for days just say ball and she goes nuts who are your dogs best pet pals each other i think what is each dog s best quality rolybug is the sweetest dog ever really he loves all people and is your friend instantly lady doesn t have any good qualities just kidding they are all really sweet but lady is the loudest dog ever her bark is high pitched and just loud i don t know if that s a best quality or not but nobody is walking into my house unnoticed mimi is my back of pack caretaker and will stop everything to make sure you are okay if your dogs could change one thing about you what would it be i m sure they d love for me to get up from this computer and walk them more often if your dogs could answer only one question in english what would you ask them you know there s a dog door right just push with your nose if hollywood made a movie about your life in which your dogs could speak who should voice them yeah so truthfully i m not much of a movie watcher i m a reader i have zero idea what actors actresses are out there now roly would be someone kind lady someone loud mimi someone friendly what advice would your dogs give if asked take time to smell the world visit margaret fenton s website marshal zeringue posted by marshal zeringue at 2 05 am 2 comments labels papillons friday december 23 2022 elle grawl olive and truffle who is in the photo at right i m elle grawl and i m the author of the psychological thriller one of those faces in this photo my dog truffle an 8 year old shepherd mix is in front of me my other dog olive a 1 year old goldendoodle isn t pictured here what s the occasion for coffee with a canine as i write this we re preparing to make a quick trip to a coffee shop before i need to head to the office for my day job as a lawyer what s brewing i typically like to support the independent coffee shops in my neighborhood but on days when i bring my dogs i ll swing through the starbucks drive thru for my venti dark roast coffee hot no cream or sugar so they can get a puppucino any treats for you or the dogs on this occasion no treats for me but the dogs love their puppucinos which are these tiny cups that the baristas fill with whipped cream olive and truffle don t get them very often so they cherish each one how were you and olive and truffle united my husband and i wanted to buy a coffee plant one saturday morning while i was in law school and we returned with truffle instead while we were looking for the plant we stumbled upon a local shelter event and we really connected with truffle we d been wanting to get a second dog for some time and had been on waiting lists with doodle mix rescues in the area for a while before we got to meet olive how did your dogs get their names any aliases my husband and i like to cook together and we love truffle as an ingredient when we talked about getting a dog we d always joke that truffle would be a great name for a dog i sometimes call him truffie or chuckles because he always looks like he s smiling we had a couple of name ideas for our second dog but when we met her olive seemed to fit for some reason she also responds to ollie ollie kins and stinky do olive and truffle do more to help or hinder your writing they somehow manage to do both when we first got olive she was a handful and required a lot of attention as a puppy so i didn t have as much time for writing these days they both love to curl up by me when i write and it s so comforting to have them around but when they re super playful or if they spot a squirrel anywhere near a window i usually opt to close my laptop and take them outside have your actual canines inspired the creation of any fictional dogs actually yes truffle inspired a shelter adopted shepherd mix in one of my works in progress and olive inspired a brief interaction that the main character has with a goldendoodle at a house party in a different novel i m working on cat postman squirrel truffle and olive both love to run after squirrels we have the occasional cat pass through our yard and those are olive s favorite to watch through the window i never let them out when a cat is around ball squeaky toy stick they love all three but the ball is a particular favorite since they get to chase after it who are your dogs best pet pals before olive truffle used to have a good group of corgi friends at our last place but right now they are each other s best pals what is each dog s best quality they are both so smart and so great at training they re also...
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