Category Archives: Roxie’s musings

Just stuff that Roxie thinks up in the course of the day.

How Roxie became a pet sitting ninja

Contrary to what you might think, I wasn’t born a Chief Dog and major pet sitter. When Marcia rescued/adopted me, she also had another dog, Pasha the Greyhound. Pasha was a sweetheart, and even though we were very different kinds of dogs, he showed me the ropes and even let me sleep on his pouf….

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Smart dog awarded Harvard diploma!

Imagine that!  I completed Sophomore Year in the Class of 2010 in less than two hours!  How many of you can say that? Here’s my Certificate in Recognition of Canine Achievement to prove it. I must say, it wasn’t too difficult for a smart dog like myself to just breeze through the program. For those…

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Roxie goes to HAHVAHD!

Who’da thunk it?  A dog like myself, of no special pedigree! And I’m going to Harvard, that’s Hahvahd for all you Boston Brahmins out there. My person read an article in the Boston Globe about a lab there in the Psychology department–of all places!  It’s called the Canine Cognition Lab (that must be short for…

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Me again, Roxie here

I was thinking of some ways to use this blog (that’s short for web blog for all you dinosaurs out there). Here are some of my ideas: I could tell you about nice, warm stories of my compatriots who have been rescued from awful fates (just as I was).  Nothing like a story of a…

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Roxie here- My first blog

This is my blog.  I know.  I’m a dog and dog’s aren’t supposed to blog.  But, just as God is Dog spelled backwards, blog is…golb spelled backwards. Oh, nevermind. You have to admit, at least, that blog almost rhymes with dog.   So there you have it. I will write whatever matters to me– subjects like…

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