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Dog days in Ann Arbor

by Nehama Stampfer Glogower

posted 11/11/2011

After the parade of chickens, a duck, a box turtle, and a psychotic rabbit, it feels a bit strange to have so prosaic a pet as a dog. We had held out for years against pleading kids, but we were worn down. So when our eldest daughter, Abby, found a stray five-month-old puppy on the street in Chicago and was sure that it would be "a great dog" for us, we gave in

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