Woof! Lady barking up the right tree

LADY DECIDED TO VOICE HER
CONCERN ABOUT DAISY'S BARKING.

SOMETHING ALMOST MOMENTOUS happened recently. Daisy barked at Lady, and Lady barked back.

Daisy barked again, and Lady woofed back, much louder and more powerfully this time. Daisy, who was on the other side of a fence, jumped back and hurried away from the fence.

Lady trotted away happily.

Why was that momentous? Lady probably hasn't barked a couple of dozen times in the nearly eight years (come this June) that I've been taking her to the Happy Hounds dog park. Several people have asked if she couldn't bark; in fact, someone asked that today.

Yes, she CAN bark, as Daisy will attest. She just doesn't bark unless she has something to say.

NOTE: Lady passed on Sept. 17, 2016, my worst day until Nov. 8, 2016.

• Woof! (Needs no translation)

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Other entries from The Dog Blog

• Katie cried

• Growl and pull

• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2015)

• The Dog Diary (2014)

• 13-plus years with my dog Lady

• OOH! OOH! The stereophonic huskies

• What Lady and Michael Jackson had in common

EDITOR@WORK blog entries

• You really DO need an editor

• Reminders for would-be novelists

• What I do when I'm editing

• What I charge (it's a deal) and what I edit

• Slogging through the Internet

• J-school: More eyes on your stories

• J-school: Go out and learn

• Rookie mistakes for magazine writers

Blog entries from The Auto Racing Journal

• Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr.

(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)

• Then Junior Said to Jeff...

(the book of great NASCAR stories)

• My best day as a sports writer

• Jeff Gordon's milk toast to Dale Earnhardt

• Wayne Auton: A life in racing

More blog entries by Tom Gillispie

• Resume for a writer and editor

• An editor's views on powerful writing

• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

Anecdotes by Tom Gillispie

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• The PRESS cap and my friend Mike

• Watching TV

• No luck with Billy Sims

• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

• A desperate writer working in the dark

• Yer outta there!