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June 21, 2013 • Dogs
Today is Take Your Dog to Work Day! My beloved dog Javier made a visit to the Quirk headquarters to help out at the office (we are a pretty small operation after all).
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January 24, 2013 • Dogs
Australians love celebrating Australia Day for several reasons.
Not only is it a public holiday (and we all love those) but it’s a time to gather the crew together and celebrate what it means to be an Aussie. Think playing cricket in your togs with ice-cream running down your arm coz it’s 40 degrees outside.
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August 31, 2012 • Comics, Dogs
Photo by Michael Peligro
For anyone who has ever had a dog, you will know that they are more than just a pet. A dog is a friend, companion and to many, a family member. Recent studies have actually shown that the average dog has the intelligence of a two year old human with a vocabulary of 165 to 250 words.
So, in honor of man's best friend, we are going to take a closer look at five of the best canine companions... in comics.
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June 13, 2012 • Dogs
Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein with their poodle
Just when you thought the holidays couldn’t get any weirder, along comes Take Your Dog to Work Day.
This holiday was first celebrated in 1999 to promote pet adoption from local shelters and humane societies. Employers are encouraged to open their offices to four-legged friends on this one special day.
But these authors? They celebrated Take Your Dog to Work Day every day.
Ann Patchett makes her home in her hometown of Nashville with her husband and their dog, Rose. A self-proclaimed late-in-life dog owner, Patchett equates her relationship with the mutt to falling in love.
“I could hardly sleep at night for watching her sleep. She was small and white; maybe a cross between a Jack Russell and a Chihuahua, without the deep neuroses of either breed. If shedding was an Olympic sport, she would have brought home the gold. I was besotted.”
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January 17, 2012 • Dogs, Fiction
When Stacia Kuceyeski of the Ohio Historical Society reached out regarding Taft 2012 campaign materials, she included photos of her adorable pug-chihuahua mix... President William Howard Taft, or just "Taft" to his friends.
These, of course, had to be posted on the blog immediately.
The photos are of Taft posing at the McKinley Memorial in Canton, Ohio. Please take note of the sassy Taft tag on his collar and the scarlet carnation, which is Ohio's state flower. According to Stacia, McKinley always wore one.
There are a few more photos below after the jump. Take a look. Thanks for sending these in, Stacia! Taft sure is cute.
