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The Dog Blog is a community of ordinary dog lovers who have come together to discuss our extraordinary dogs. Each Monday, a new topic is introduced. If you've got an opinion, share it. If not, look for the current "anything goes" topic and introduce a discussion of your own. On Fridays, weigh in about your training questions and successes.
Your host: Mike Lewis is a little-dog nerd and the proud owner of Eddie and Jillian, a pair of Yorkies who think they're Labs, and Rusty, an elderly Lab who thinks he's a Yorkie. Contact mlewis@adn.com

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Painting of Jack arrives in the mail

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Jack: Portrait of Jack  1/16/96 to 2/8/09Jack: Portrait of Jack 1/16/96 to 2/8/09

This amazing 16x20 portrait arrived in the mail this week from a person I know only from a Yorkie forum. It is a painting of Jack, my 13-year-old rescue who died in February.

I used to think the Internet wasn't real. The people we meet and the "friends" we make didn't seem genuine if I didn't meet them in person. But I have to say after losing Jack, I discovered you can get to know people -- and animals -- via pictures and stories on the Internet. I was deluged with condolences on his passing, this being just the latest. People got to know Jack, and they grieved his passing every bit as much as I did.

Jack was a scrawny, 4-pound yapper who at a glance epitomized all the things so many people hate about little dogs. But he had the heart of a lion and a capacity to love that came across in the videos and pictures I posted of him over the years.

That's why I've tried to set up this blog as a community where we can all share stories of our dogs. They really are amazing, and it's not just the owners who know that. Our dogs affect everyone who sees the pictures and reads about their adventures. Their capacity to make us happy can be shared, and their legacy spreads infinitely wider when we do so.

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