Stories & Lit | The Bark

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Musings on the world's oldest friendship in personal essays, memoirs, fiction, classics and, of course, humor.

Photo by B.G. WALKER

The Scent of Glory

In Their Voices

By Philip W. Merten

Piglet, the Deaf Blind Pink Puppy, Inspires and Educates

By Melissa Shapiro, DVM

Avalanche

By Jeffrey Feingold

The Bonds of Love

By Charles Street

Snow Dog

By Brenda Wolfenbarger

The Fat Cat

A Tribute to the Dog Who Saved Me

By Cecilia MacMillan

How I Got A Dog

I Love Dogs But I Don’t Want One Anymore

How I Got A Dog

By Phyllis Berger

Nicole Wilde, Keeping the Peace, Book Review, a Guide to Solving aggression between dogs

Keeping the Peace: Solving Dog-Dog Aggression at Home

Book Review and Excerpt

By The Bark Editors

Healing Fraught History of African Americans and Dogs

Becoming a dog owner helped me dispel internalized myths about black people and dogs.

By Joshunda Sanders

Studying the Dog

A friendly pack is scaling ivory towers on campuses worldwide

dog adoption problems, returning an adopted dog

When a Dog Adoption Doesn't Work Out

Sometimes, love isn’t enough

By Elizabeth Mehren