Sometimes my parents take me to this place that is very large and open and quiet.  I am told to “Sit” and they walk away but they are very close to me. In the beginning, I’m afraid. I hear sounds of  “whack” popping all around me, again and again, then silence, then this “whack” “pop” [...]

You wake up feeling really good.Your Dad takes you for a nice walk early in the morning: What a great way to begin a great day. Soon, your mom takes you on a nice car ride to your favorite animal hospital. There, your friends greet you with smiles. They take you into the back. You [...]

A dog has a really unique family and set of relatives: He has his canine family and he has his human family. And then he has his adoptive human family. It was a long long time ago when I had my first human family. So long ago I really don’t recall. But last week when [...]

Here I am, a runner, sitting beneath a statue to one of the great runners of the Boston Marathon, John A. Kelly. And I would say I’m a pretty long-distance runner, for a dog of my age. After all, I’m going to be eleven years old and I’m back to running with my Dad, anything [...]

I used to have a little brother cat, a cat named Mickey. Mickey came into my life one day when I was pretty comfortable in my home.  I love everybody, and the more creatures we have in our home, the happier I am, so I was anxious to become friends with Mickey. I had never [...]

Many people look at their dogs and ask, “Is my dog dreaming?” And if so, they want to know “What is my dog is dreaming about? Here is a video of me, taken three months after I was hit by the car, shortly after the doctor took off my splint and bandages. It was July [...]

So there I was, a Cover Dog, my photo on the cover of a newspaper, right there on the cover of the Daily News Tribune, for everybody to see!  And my story was the cover story, “Jottings from Joey”. And it said, “Chocolate Lab’s blog gives dog’s eye view of world”. When my mom came [...]

In June and July, I continued to get mail and receive comments to my blog posts, and I continued to make friends with dog lovers and dog owners. In June, I made friends with people all the way in Russia. I really have no idea where that is, or how far away it is, but [...]