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Spring break brought Max’s first experience of school holidays. He enjoyed it; I did not. The first day, I came home from grocery shopping to find a mob of little girls roaring around the garden with Max in hot pursuit.
When our daughters, Caroline and Katie, were four and one respectively, my mother gave me a diary for Christmas. With the gift came the instruction: “You have to write down all the funny things that the children say. Otherwise, you’ll
In the days following Max’s defiant sprint after the dog in the woods, he reverted to good-as-gold, and we were back to debating whether his misbehavior was just puppy high jinks or whether he needed serious training from an outside
Max’s predecessor, Beanie, was a gentle dog. Throughout Beanie’s life, we had a love affair with the George Derby War Veterans’ Centre, where we served as Pets and Friends volunteers through the program founded by the SPCA. Beanie was eight
Max’s first few days with us had been deceptive. As he’d arrived on a Monday, he was introduced to a household where three of the four humans were out during the day so that many hours were spent having quiet
Max settled in very quickly. Those first few days, he was good as gold, other than minor misdemeanours like stealing my dusters when I was doing the housework. He also made one tentative chew at the Queen Anne leg on
My Diary entry of January 27, 1993 wasn’t quite accurate. The family who owned Max lived in Queensborough, not Delta, but given the glazed state of my brain after weeks of preparing elementary school students for a puppet marathon, it’s
Max, our much-loved family pet, was the inspiration for fourteen of the twenty Elwoodettes shows, and with his puppet look-alike, he made over 100 bows on the stage of the Bernie Legge Theatre. Our cat, Minx, the Manx, also exists