To shake the earth

Most pets hate loud noises, but we had one dog who loved fireworks. He especially liked to chase the ground flowers. Luckily, he never caught one!

Extraction work

Don't you just love a bad pun?

Keeping it clean

Oh, yeah.

In your prayers

That would make an interesting research study -- can prayer affect genetics?

What's in a name?

Give a child a puppy...

Yeah, I caved at home, too.

Tired of it

That's what got me to cave in to the "let's get a dog" lobby!

Honor dog

I really liked the idea of naming a puppy "Stinkyhah!"

Fetch, he said

Kind of a Mormon double entendre. Heh.

His bark is worse

This series created a set of problems at home. My son also wanted a dog, and he sometimes sees himself as Kib...and one thing led to another...