Baxter— Living With Your Humans

William Kunitz is Baxter’s long-suffering and oft neglected translator and scribe. For years he has tried his best to understand and interpret Baxter’s observations. He is Baxter’s Maxwell Perkins, each month carefully editing and faithfully shaping the canine’s prose into an acceptable column, his only reward the occasional thanks from a dog who has read Baxter's work.
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Baxter: Living with your Humans
By William Kunitz - Jan 01Hello, I’m the one responsible for listening to Baxter’s musings about living with two-legged creatures with very little fur, a terrible sense of ...
Shoes
By Baxter - Nov 02Do you have more than one chew? Maybe a nice marrow bone, a couple of chew flips, and a nice piece of knotted rawhide? In addition to chews you ...
Oh, the Suffering of Puppies
By Baxter - Aug 31Humans seem to have only one word for puppies: No! It goes something like this: Can I chew on this shoe? No? Oh, I just found its mate. No. How ...
Cookout Capers
By Baxter - Jul 01Summer is here and time for another refresher on family cookouts. In the past I’ve focused on the technique of removing unwanted meat from the ...
Fur
By Baxter - May 04Ah, spring, a time for all of us (except you poodles, doodles and hairless types) to finally shed the fur we’ve built up all winter. I prefer a ...
Snow Days
By Baxter - Mar 02In tribute to our long time contributor, Baxter, we will be reprising some of his best pieces from over the years. This month's column was first ...
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Busy, Busy, Busy
By Baxter - Dec 23Busy, Busy, Busy Humans have to be busy at something all the time. I think it’s what complicates their lives. As we begin another year let’s look ...
News Flash!
By Baxter - Nov 03Humans have discovered we’re smarter than they thought we were. Well, duh! For eons, humans have thought they were training us when it’s clear ...
Ah, September!
By Baxter - Sep 01September is my favorite month - my favorite non-winter month, that is. The air is finally cooling off; it smells so clear and clean. My humans ...
Backyard Cookout
By Baxter - Jul 01Over the years, I've given all sorts of advice on how to enjoy your humans’ cookout. I've suggested stealth, patience, and such brazen tactics as ...
The Problem with Cats
By Baxter - Dec 01My humans got a cat about the same time they got me. It was a standard, garden variety cat: It coughed up hairballs, sat under the window waiting ...
Obedience Training
By Baxter - Oct 02Not long after you land in your human’s home they’re likely to take you to obedience training. I don’t even like the sound of those words. The ...
Staying Cool in the Summer
By Baxter - Aug 03I’ve written more than once about the alarming lack of fur on humans. Still, there is one time of year when a nearly hairless body has an advantage...
Human Food Rituals and how to benefit from them
By Baxter - Jun 01Before we begin, let’s review how we eat: 1. Our humans pour food into our bowls; 2. We eat. Not so with humans. They make a ritual of eating. ...
Spring Scents
By Baxter - Mar 31Winter is a very boring time for my nose. Of course, being part husky, I love lying in the snow chewing on a bone or bounding over big drifts, ...
Snow
By Baxter - Feb 01I don’t think I’ll ever understand humans. First, as I mentioned a while back, after years of dry food they started giving me moist, yummy meaty ...
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Things Your Humans Don’t Tell You
By Baxter - Dec 01There are a lot of things your humans don’t tell you – like where they go all day or why some days you get to go to day care and other days they ...
Stupid Human Tricks
By Baxter - Sep 30What annoys you most about your humans? See if any of your pet peeves match this list: Roughhousing. Roughhousing is fine when we’re outside but ...
Keeping Cool
By Baxter - Aug 04It’s our days again, Dog Days-hot, sticky days when we can’t stop panting. We’re living with that fur coat that keeps us warm in the winter, but ...
Beg No More
By Baxter - Jun 02If you’ve been reading my column for any length of time, you know I often return to my favorite subject, food. It’s embarrassing to visit a canine ...