My name is Tanner the Pit Bull. I was living on the street when a kind lady took me to the shelter, the jail for dogs. I was supposed to 'go to sleep', but then Lou and Eugenie showed up and took me home. We've written a book about it, GIMME SHELTER. We're hoping you'll drop by from time to time to learn what's new with us and our friends. We'll be talking about rescue dogs, especially Pit Bulls, anger issues, and things we love, like movies, books, travel and karate.
Poor dad. He hasn't been available to help me post in several weeks and here's why. As he explains in GIMME SHELTER, it was 30+years ago that he left day-to-day teaching to follow a different drummer and pursue his artistic calling. Although he's been sub-teaching at the local juvenile probation camps, working with incarcerated teens, nothing prepared him for a recent gig, filling in for an ailing AP English teacher at a local high school. After two weeks, my black belt dad looked like he'd gone 5 rounds with UFC champ Anderson Silva: his eyes were glazed, his heart was racing, and his stomach was in knots. With another month looming, dad showed the better part of valor and tapped out, agreeing to take a greatly reduced workload. He's sorry that he couldn't push through, but mom and I are happy to have him back home with us and smiling again. Want to see just how thrilled I am to have my 'big dog' back? Here's a video of us hanging at home, playing my favorite game, ' Jump'.
Congratulations to our dear friend and pup-lover Jennienne LeClercq of NYC. When her beloved Stella passed away, she wasn't sure she'd ever share her life and love with another pooch. Enter, Darla, who's already captured Jenniene's heart…and most of the bed. The only tough spot so far - getting this discrete, 15-month-old country honey to squat on the New York sidewalks!
Jenniene and 'Darla' Darling @ the Central Park Boathouse
The fabulous Stella
Since it;s Holiday Season (and seemingly has been since July), we thought we'd share a Buzzfeed heart-warmer about Leo, a down-and-out Cambodian pooch and the guardian angel that turned his life around. If this evokes a 'Bah, humbug!', you'd best go see your cardiologist.
