I'm going blind in my left eye. So far it's temporary. I wake up and can only see white in one eye for about twenty minutes, then it passes. No one knew until I heard a sound, turned to my left and whacked my head. Hard. I'm more careful now.

Sam went mostly blind. Permanently. Well, first she went deaf. At first, no one knew. They just thought she was getting pig headed in her old age. She was twelve, and a lab, like me. When she responded to hand signals, but not words, they figured it out. I don't really know hand signals. I guess I'll be in trouble in five years.

I like a late night walk. I sleep all the time, so if I get up for a walk (I'm always up for a walk!) its early for me, no matter what time the clock says.

We live in Brooklyn, in a row house near the park. If we all get up early enough on the weekends, a lot of the dogs are running off leash. You couldn't really call them a pack, since almost all the alphas have two legs and they can't be bothered to run. So alpha-for-a-moment is fluid. Mostly we run where our noses take us. Mostly, we don't get to the park, we love to sleep in too much.

Has anybody's dog gotten sick from swimming in or drinking from the lake? It must be full of bacteria with the ducks, etc. What about Dog Beach?