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 […]
Author: Dave Jaffe
Humorist, writer, former Chicago reporter, multiple award-winning columnist Dave Jaffe has written for online media, 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 these skills have led to award-winning books, columns and commentary.
Dave’s work has appeared in a wide range of outlets, from HuffPost and HumorOutcasts to National Public Radio and The National Lampoon. He even wrote sketches for Bozo the Clown. (Who can forget the “Bozo Juggles Invisible Chainsaws” bit?)
Dave’s books, Sleeping Between Giants, Book 1: Life, if you could call it that, with a Terrier and Sleeping between Giants, Book 2: Ask a Terrier—Professional Advice from a Licensed Dog, have been honored with the 2023 Best Indie Book Award for Humor, the 17th Annual National Indie Excellence® Awards for Animals & Pets, the 2021 International Book Awards for Humor, and Indies Today 2019 Best Humor Book Award.
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 […]
Ask a Terrier: It’s In the Bag!
Professional Advice from a Licensed Dog Dear Budleigh, What’s the best bag for a dog? My sweetie Brussels Griffon, Tinker, commutes everywhere with me in her suede faux-fur lined carrier. But she’s an uncompromising fashionista! […]
Ask a Terrier: Semper Canis!
Professional Advice from a Licensed Dog Dear Budleigh, How cool is it that a new line of postage stamps will honor the military’s working canines? Have you seen them? They feature four breeds often used […]
Ask a Terrier: Talkin’ TED
Professional Advice from a Licensed Dog A question for you, Budleigh. Have you considered giving a TED Talk? You’ve such an essential grasp of the issues and themes that trouble us all. Well, mostly dogs. […]
Message from Space: Duck!
The threat of meteors devastating the Earth is so real that scientists at the recent Planetary Defense Conference in Washington, D.C. didn’t once giggle every time they said “Uranus.” To punctuate the dangers from space, […]