Ask a Terrier: Paper Training
Professional Advice from a Licensed Dog. Dear Budleigh, Are you kidding me? What is it with you dogs and paper? I leave my Labrador Retrievers Vex (nose above) and River (nose below) for an […]
Author: Dave Jaffe
Writer, columnist, former Chicago reporter, humorist Dave Jaffe has written for online, print, television, and radio. Creative, clever, witty – these are traits that kept Dave in detention for most of the eighth grade. But as an adult those skills led to multiple award-winning columns and commentary, numerous published articles and essays, and even sketches for Bozo the Clown. Dave’s blog, Sleeping between Giants – which explores life, if you could call it that, with a terrier – received the 2018 and 2017 National Society of Newspaper Columnists awards for humor blogs. His work has twice been honored with Peter A. Lisagor awards by the Chicago Headline Club, and by the Parenting Publications of America.
Ask a Terrier: Don’t Hold the Phone!
Professional Advice from a Licensed Dog: Dear Budleigh, Zoe, our new poodle, has a problem. Or maybe I have a problem. Or Society. The thing is, Zoe keeps stealing my cell phone and snuggling […]
Ask a Terrier: Wake Up and Smell the COVID!
Professional Advice from a Licensed Dog: Dear Budleigh, Am I to understand that dogs are being trained to sniff out COVID-19? Has anyone explained this to the dogs? While there is no evidence that […]
Ask a Terrier: Unmasking the Mask
Professional Advice from a Licensed Dog: Dear Budleigh, I know all about coronavirus, but do we really need to be wearing face masks everywhere? I walk around the grocery store and feel like an extra […]
Ask a Terrier: Zooming Isn’t Like Running
Professional Advice from a Licensed Dog Hey, Budleigh! Is this social distancing as hard on dogs as on us Giants? When I take Edde, my big goof, on a stroll, I keep six feet from […]
Ask a Terrier: Sheltering Outside the Shelter
Professional Advice from a Licensed Dog Dear Budleigh, In these pandemic times, I’m confident that your focus is on safety and community because you’re medically trained and don’t need toilet paper. We Giants are trying […]
Ask a Terrier: How the Dogs Are Voting
Professional Advice from a Licensed Dog Dear Budleigh, Assuming that you’re not a registered voter, have you any advice for us Giants on the U.S. elections? We seem to be making quite a hash of […]
Ask a Terrier: Budleigh Addresses a Royal Pain
Professional Advice from a Licensed Dog! Dear Budleigh, I was gobsmacked – isn’t that what the British say, gobsmacked? – when Prince Harry and wife Meghan announced they were stepping down from their royal duties. […]
Ask a Terrier: Mark of the Hallmark
Professional Advice from a Licensed Dog Hello, Budleigh! Big fan of Hallmark Christmas Movies here. I’m excited that 40 new titles are slated over the holiday season, which according to Hallmark began in July. While […]