Dog Story

Part 2: We Rolled My Father’s Harley Into His Hospice Room So He Could See It One Last Time. But the Last Thing He Asked For Was the Dog. They Are Buried in the Same Field Now — and Every Year, the Club Rides By and Waves.

Part 2 I want to tell you about the Harley first, because the Harley is the thing that makes the…

Part 2: A Faint Bark From Under a Collapsed Building Led Me Through Six Hours of Digging. The Dog Had Built a Shelter Out of Himself. The Baby Underneath Him Was Alive. He Was Not.

Part 2 I want to tell you what that bark sounded like, because I have heard a great many sounds…

Part 2: The Retired War Dog I Brought Home Was Missing His Right Ear. I Am Missing My Right Leg. A Caseworker Slid His Service Record Across the Table — and the Date on It Stopped My Heart.

Part 2 I want to tell you about military working dogs, briefly, because most people do not know how this…

Part 2: For Two Years, My Husband’s Mother Said Nothing at All. Then She Touched a Screen With a Dog on It and Whispered a Name None of Us Had Ever Heard. Six Months Later, She Told Us Why That Dog Was the Reason She Was Alive.

Part 2 I have to tell you why I sent the video, because it was the smallest, most ordinary thing,…

Part 2: Everyone Laughed at the One-Eyed Dog I Adopted. I Had a Line Ready for Them. I Did Not Understand, Until a Pediatric Surgeon Explained It, Why That Dog Had Been the Only One Who Could Do What He Did.

Part 2 I need to tell you about myself, a little, because you cannot understand why I chose Wink, or…

Part 2: My Rescue Dog Reacted to Exactly One Name — and Only That Name. When I Learned Who She Had Been, I Understood Why He Chose My Wife Over Me.

Part 2 I want to tell you exactly how I discovered it, because it took me a while to even…

Part 2: The Bus Driver’s Dog Sat Next to Me Every Morning for Seven Years. When the New Driver Said No Dogs, I Took Him Home. A Year Later, the Department of Transportation Called — and Everything Changed.

Part 2 I have to tell you how the dog came to be named Bus Driver, because the name tells…

Part 2: For Eight Years, My Twelve-Pound Dog Rode in My Bicycle Basket to Work. The Morning I Was Robbed, She Did Not Stay in the Basket. What She Said in the Robber’s Own Words, in a Courtroom, I Will Never Forget.

Part 2 I need to tell you how Karat came to me, because the how of it matters to the…

Part 2: The Dog I Rescued From a Lake Had One Strange Habit — Every Night, He Faced North and Waited. I Did Not Understand It Until His Real Owner’s Mother Called Me.

Part 2 I want to tell you about the eight months I had Lake before the phone call, because you…

Part 2: Our Oldest Shelter Dog Gave His Toy Away to Every Frightened Puppy Who Arrived. The Day I Read His File, I Understood What He Had Actually Been Doing — and It Broke Every One of Us.

Part 2 I want to tell you exactly what Gunner did, because for six years we watched it and softened…