Odin's Ravens

“Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love ...

His small paws shiver In swift pursuit of dream things While I watch and smile.

George the Beagador thinks he has arguments with me, but his vocabulary is extremely limited, like Groot’s. It begins when George stares at ...

George’s Rules 1) Motor scooters and bicycles are forbidden. 2) Horses are an outrage. 3) How dare squirrels exist. 4) The pillows are mine....

The dog stops and sniffs, reading recent visitors the way you read this.

Every day about dawn, a woman walks a large, black-and-white, boxer-type dog past our house into the park. It doesn’t see...

Drawing and quote by the late, great New Yorker humorist James Thurber

Here's an Alex Ross painting I absolutely love. For the uninitiated, I'll say that this is Krypto, Superman's dog (don't a...

By Lisa Lipham Lemza Their bodies soft, Improbably compressed, Curling into commas, Apostrophes of beguiling re...

U.S. Olympic freeskier Gus Kenworthy is bringing home from Sochi four stray puppies he saved from that city's disgusting ...

Wonderful.

Painting by Sinclair Stratton After their baby was kidnapped and then accidentally and secretly killed the same night in 1932,...

Our Dalmatian Baby. It's nice to remember her this way.

By Dan Hagen The 21-year-old Jacob Riis was jobless, homeless and foodless — starving, in fact — on one cold, rainy nigh...

We treat the bounding enthusiasm with which dogs greet us as silly, but at some level we're aware of its underlying existential truth . ...