Dogs' best friends. (notes).(dog lovers)(Brief Article)

Away from the clash of competing religions, opposite the scrape of political factions, apart from the sea of bobbing "isms"--capitalism, postmodernism, reductionism--there is the constancy of dogs. For true dog people, this assurance replenishes hope and makes life more bearable. For non-dog people, it's sappy nonsense, but you wouldn't want this crowd for your friends anyway.

True dog lovers humanize their companions without shame. They are their dogs' ventriloquists and mind readers, as well as parents, entertainers, waiters, nurses and fetchers. Indeed, their loyalty to their dogs approaches their dogs' fidelity to them. True dog lovers are always in one of two states: either happy their dogs are with them, or wishing they were, because the presence of a dog improves almost any situation. For instance, I attend trade shows that the organizational talents of a border collie would improve markedly. Mistakes I make at BN are, no doubt, for want of an office beagle to sniff them out.

Any place that accommodates dogs gets five stars in my book. The Super 8 Motel in Seward, Nebraska, once gave my Labs Argus and Chuck and ...