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Duke, the first dog of my adult life, cost $100 and came from a shelter in southern Minnesota. For a time, I considered feeding him Ol' Roy from Wal-Mart, which is about $10 for 45 pounds of food. I'm pretty sure they put cats in it. Instead, he got Purina for a while. ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Eventually, thanks in small part to TW and the urging of veterinarians, he was upgraded to Science Diet and, even further down the road, a moderately expensive natural dog food. Daisy, our 1-year-old chocolate lab, is not Duke. Her adoption fee was $375. I had to drive to Tennessee to pick her up. After a couple of weeks in Maine, we noticed Daisy had troubles. A rash on her belly. An ear infection that would *not* go away. A constantly runny nose. She was diagnosed with a food allergy when we got her back to Maine. We put her on hypo-allergenic dog food. Mmmmmmmmmmm (one-letter caption day) Have you ever had to purchase hypo-allergenic dog food? A 27-pound bag was $110. That's slightl...

Don't be that guy. I try to live my life my that motto. Don't be the guy on his phone in the grocery store checkout line or at Starbucks. Don't be the guy who orders a hamburger in a high-end restaurant. Don't be the guy that blogs about his dog. Nobody likes that guy. I am that guy. It's a minor miracle you're not reading something dog-centric every week. That it's been limited to two posts is commendable. Or something. Here comes No. 3. This is Duke, the reason I find it funny Daisy won't go in the water. We had a chocolate lab named Duke (or Dukakis, or Olympia) who died in January. The day after he went to the big dog park in the sky, I was on petfinder.com looking at what was available for chocolate lab females in New England. "I found one that's perfect for us," I told my Mom. "It gives me hope that, when we are ready for a new dog, it will be easy to find one." In the greatest listening error of our lives, TW overheard the ...