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An article by Nathaniel Herzberg in Le Monde says that dogs capt the sense of human words and tones of speech. I've just told my fr...

This short video shows Richard Dawkins in the company of his dog Tiger . " We think we know what it's like to be a dog......

The delightful little dog Dobrynya (German Shepherd race), given by Russia to France, to replace the Raid star Diesel killed at Saint-Den...

I’ve always suspected that Fitzroy might be a mathematician or some kind of a computing wizard… who doesn’t necessarily go out of his way t...

Once or twice a day, as usual, Fitzroy lets off steam by means of a short but intense session of hose running. I tried to “freeze”...

Christine went on a car excursion with François to an ancient manor-house at the western tip of Brittany to pick up this magnificent l...

Yesterday afternoon, my supplier of firewood—my neighbor Gérard Magnat —dumped a huge pile of wood alongside the house. Since rain has been ...

Dogs, in the context of conventional religions, have often had a hard time. An antiquated version of Revelations , on the very last page of ...

For the last two days, my memories have been dominated by images of Christine's dear dog Gamone . In the stark clarity of the death of a...

Sophia 's primary wish, as she grows older, is to lead a peaceful and lazy (non-strenuous) existence... like all of us, you might say. ...

Over the last week, when the weather was bitterly cold, I allowed Fitzroy , exceptionally, to sleep in the kitchen with Sophia . Inside the ...

For many years, I've been cynically amused by all the talk about the sense of Christmas. Back in the days when I used to celebrate this ...

In a blog post of 9 August 2010 entitled Sophia's future companion at Gamone [ display ] , I explained that the elegant name Fitzroy , ...

Every morning, one of the first things I do is to set off up the road with the dogs for Sophia 's morning "business", which al...

My daughter Emmanuelle —who seems to imagine (rightly so) that her father is snowed down under tons of surplus stuff—is always delighted to ...

The weather at Gamone has been mild, and the dogs have been lounging around lazily in the sun. They get on wonderfully well together. This a...

Here at Gamone, certain leaves confirm by their color that it's well and truly autumn. But the recent weather has been splendid. I'm...

Over the last few days, our region of south-east France has been beset by a heatwave. By the standards of my native Australia, it's prob...