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From: DawnWatch - news [at] dawnwatch.com
Date: Jun 11, 2007 2:54 PM
Subject: DawnWatch: NY Times, “My Dog Days” - 6/11/07

The Monday, June 10, New York Times has an op-ed headed “My Dog Days” by novelist Arthur Phillips, which will warm the heart of all who have fallen in love with dogs. It opens:

“My little guy is growing up fast. He’s toilet-trained, he goes uncomplainingly to sleep and he no longer chews on his playmates’ faces until they bleed. He is 8 months old, and I know, years from now, that I will always remember this summer as the time he and I fell in love.

“Between this summer and next, this latest beagle — the third of my adult life — will age from zero to 1 (or zero to 7), on a fast track to reduce me to mourning sometime in my early 50s.”

I will not attempt to summarize it, as it so warmly written I could not do it justice. I urge you to go to www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/opinion/10phillips.html and enjoy it in full. The more hits the article gets the better, so that the Times learns how much its readers enjoy animal friendly pieces. Please also send appreciative letters to the editor. As animal advocates, however, it is our job also to remind readers that equally beloved and memorable companions come from shelters. Because beagles are the focus of the piece, some people may also wish to write about the horrifying fate of many beagles in our nation’s laboratories.

The New York Times takes letters at letters [at] nytimes.com.

Always include your full name, address, and daytime phone number when sending a letter to the editor. Remember that shorter letters are more likely to be published. And please be sure not to use any comments or phrases from me or from any other alerts in your letters. Editors are looking for original responses from their readers.

I send thanks to activist Teresa D’Amico for making sure we saw this piece.

Yours and the animals’,
Karen Dawn

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