“A street dog is a sweet dog …”
Our recent post about Bobby, a Nicaraguan street dog, drew a comment from Mary Graham Bliss, the founder and executive director of Practical Small Projects, a non-profit organization that works to...
View ArticleBack to the Stars: The afterlife of dogs
What happens to the souls of dogs when they die? Here’s one magical interpretation — a song and animated video that follows a dog named Dingo as he leaves his earthly life to take his place among the...
View ArticleClassical music makes for calmer dogs
Bach is better than Judas Priest, Strauss is preferable to Slayer, and Mozart is a wiser choice than Motorhead — at least when it comes to keeping dogs calm in kennels and shelters. A Colorado State...
View ArticlePlaying by ear: Retriever on the keyboard
A lot of viewers of this video suspect there’s trickery at work, but German musician and dog trainer Schlauwauwau says her two golden retrievers are neither scammers nor musical geniuses — just dogs....
View ArticleDancing Dog Day: Deaf bulldog blues
We hereby proclaim this — now that spay-neuter month is officially over — Dancing Dog Day. And we begin our presentation with a dancing English bulldog who, though deaf, still seems to feel the blues....
View ArticleDancing Dog Day: A techno mix
Next, we present what appears to be a shepherd mix who’s ready for a night at the Roxy. This one’s short and sweet, as should be the case with techno music, which is written by robots who have been...
View ArticleDancing Dog Day: Ending on a classical note
We conclude today’s series on dancing dogs with a non-dancing one — a pug who seems not the least bit inspired by Chopin’s “Minute Waltz.” Not everyone knows this — unless they have been classically...
View ArticleA musical interlude, because we’re moving
You’ll have to wait until next week for the details, but ohmidog! is moving, and since we’re not sure how much time we’ll have to post stories in the days ahead, we bring you this three-day musical...
View ArticleDolly Parton: Me and Little Andy
This is possibly the saddest, sappiest song Dolly Parton ever recorded. So why does it give me chills?
View ArticleHawthorne police ask public not to rush to judgment in case of Rottweiler...
Amid growing outrage, online petitioning and a few threats, police in Hawthorne, Calif., are asking the public not to rush to judgment and say they are investigating an officer’s fatal shooting of Max,...
View ArticleDog concert was … we’ll never know
By most human accounts, the concert for dogs held outside the Opera House in Sydney, Australia over the weekend was a big success. Staged by Laurie Anderson, musician-wife of Lou Reed, the 20-minute...
View ArticleOn music, memories and the open road
This trip, whatever else it’s about, is also about nostalgia, and I got a big dose of it on the drive to Houston – most of it induced by the long-distance driver’s best friend, the radio. Music, like...
View ArticleWhen God is on every station
I wrote down this song for my own self, and sing it now to my own soul But if you’ll sing songs of your dreamings, then you will reap treasures untold – From the Song “Heaven,” by Woody Guthrie, 1947...
View ArticleAccordion-playing dog fails to impress
I wasn’t personally tuned in, but it seems Pup, the accordion-playing pooch vying to win the NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” competition, failed to make much of an impression last night. Maybe he was...
View Article95 for 95: More songs for the road
Since I decided nearly three months ago to get on the road again — that I was going mobile — I’ve reached a few conclusions: Life is a highway. Every day is a winding road. And, though I may not be a...
View ArticleOf siblings, the 60′s and sappy songs
While traveling with Charley in 1960, John Steinbeck worked in a few visits with family — his son in college, a rendezvous with his wife in Chicago — but he made a point of not including details of...
View ArticleCarefree Highway — the song, the road
The trailer in Arizona where Ace and I are spending December is just a mile from Carefree Highway. Maybe two miles. Possibly three. It doesn’t matter. “Carefree Highway” is also a Gordon Lightfoot...
View ArticleStandin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
We started off on Carefree Highway, got some kicks on Route 66, spent some time standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and ended up at a Motel 6 in Albuquerque. That last one isn’t a song, though...
View ArticleHeavy meddle: Creed works as wolf repellant
A 13-year-old boy in Norway credits the Creed song “Overcome,” cranked up to full volume, with saving him from a pack of wolves. Walter Eikrem was walking home from a school bus stop in Rakkestdad,...
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