- The pooch is even less of a morning
personcreature than I am. Usually I’m the one dragging her ass out of bed for the morning constitutional, instead of the other way around. - Jerry’s of Westport is a great pet store, even if the resident parakeet freaks out Ginger. It’s locally, independently owned and the prices are competitive with the chain stores.
- Penn Valley dog park is doubleplus groovy. The city needs to build a couple more off-leash dog parks.
- Metrodog is a great resource for training and living with a dog in the city and/or apartment.
- Dogster, Friendster for pooches
- Trips to Home Depot have been replaced by trips to Jerry’s and Petco, which doubles as the DMV.
- Just when I think she’s making progress, she eats my library book Dog Training for Dummies.



My local Half Price Books has a section titled “If you like David Sedaris…” Since I hadn’t read any Sedaris yet, I picked up Naked, a collection of memoirs. It’s always interesting to read about other families’ dysfunctions… This one reminded me a lot of Dave Eggers’ Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
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