Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

Doggie diary: The story of Rosie and Sophie Unleashing the inner carpenter

The amazing, Houdini-like powers of Rosie — which have noe rubbed onto Sophie — have me unleashing my inner carpenter. Of course, I can't claim to do union-level work — or even nominally proficient work — but this seems simple enough. I am going to fasten the pen to a heavy sheet of plywood in the hopes of stabilizing it and keeping them from pushing the sides down to escape. I also bought a new tarp and, just in case, some chicken wire for the top — all just to avoid crating them.

Of course, the plywood doesn't fit in the RAV4, which I hope is not a sign of bad things to come.

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Doggie diary: The story of Rosie and Sophie The Sleeping Beauties chapter

When they sleep like this, it is easy to forget their evil puppy manuevers — like Rosie escaping the pen or both of them eating every stone, leaf and stick in the yard.

We put them on the bed last night with Annie while I finished watching something in the living room. I promptly fell asleep. two hours later, when I retrieved them from the bed, they were comfortable and cried when I put them in the pen for the night. Rosie, of course, was loose this morning and came to wake us up.

Puppies!

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