murphy

I've had a dozen dogs in my life, many of them memorable for one reason or another.

One of my early traumas concerns our family dog. When I was little more than an infant we had a daschund named Paula who was "in heat" and we had her in the house. A pack of male dogs had gathered around the back door, and I leaned against it and fell out among them. One bit me on the upper lip, so I had to get rabies shots around my navel for a month.