Sawyer eating last batch of new grass

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Sawyer & Phoebe: A Reason to Live

WRASSLE

I don’t
kill myself
because of
my dogs – just like
Mickey Rourke who
felt much the
same way – or there’d be
no one to
feed them and
no one to
love them and
no one to
walk them and
no one to
brush them and
no one to
tease them and
no one to
pet them and
no one to
clean up
their
poop.

-Ryn Gargulinski.02.26.09

Dog pool party at the YMCA

Every year before closing down the pool for the winter, Tucson's Lighthouse City YMCA has a dog pool party.

At this year's bash, Sawyer did laps, Phoebe skulked around, barked and refused to go in the water while good pal Scout of North Sixth Avenue Dog Park fame only went in when he fell in on accident.

It's good none of the dogs ate 45 minutes before swimming but they did break the longtime rule of no running by the pool.

Dog pool party at the YMCA

Dog pool party at the YMCA

Tulum: Palm tree, two dogs and a glow in the dark lifesaver

Tulum: Real dogs, substitute dogs and random dogs

SUBSTITUTE DOGS

for Phoebe and Sawyer with love from
substitute dogs Sadie and George

I’ve found two
substitute dogs on the
beach – as my real dogs they
had to stay home – the beach dogs
don’t play dead but they
know how to sit but alas I have
nothing to feed them – unless
they want cigarets or Altoids – they
swim very well yet don’t
come when they’re called but then
neither do my
two dogs at
home.

-Ryn Gargulinski

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