So I adopted an eleven-month old long-haired dachshund from Dachshund Rescue and he moved right into the book:

The thing about playing around with your story in the sticky stages is that sometimes the wrong things stick. We already have nine dogs in this story, we definitely do not need a tenth. Especially a tenth with an addiction problem because addiction is not funny. So we absolutely do [...]

Wolfie’s cousin Pia is a high fashion model in NYC. Her posters are everywhere:

Squash belongs to Tallie (the missing priestess from the first scene). Tallie’s a vitamin salesperson, very hipped on nutrition, and she’s made sure Squash is healthy and happy. She even gives him dog vitamins.

The Mesopotamians evidently liked dogs because they did a lot of dog art, especially statues and bas reliefs. At this time none of the dog art discovered shows them playing poker, but scholars feel it’s only a matter of time since all civilizations have some version of that myth.
In the meantime, here are some [...]

Carla told us about this CNN gallery of this year’s ugliest dog contest. If I could figure out how to link to a gallery, I would, but you’ll just have to go to CNN.com and search for “These Dogs Are Ugly!” (Genius headline, eh?) CNN said, “Most of the entrants [...]

Death’s chihuahua, as we like to think of Mort, is a malevolent little side-kick, the heh-heh-heh in Mina’s daily life.

Ziggy is Gen’s foxhound. She’s the priestess who reps fertility, so when she got him as a puppy, she said, “Aw, he’s just a Zygote.” And then she called him Ziggy for short.

Some of you have already met Baby on the Argh Ink blog, from my post about Lani and I surfing the web for ugly dogs when we were in NYC. But here she is again:

I volunteered for Dachshund Rescue of Ohio and they sent me after this little one-year-old, imbred, puppy-mill, longhaired, silver dapple dachshund.