Who Invited the Dog?

Who Invited the Dog? – New York Times
Among the ranks of dreaded house guests — essentially anyone with a food-phobic four year-old who will only eat “white” food (spaghetti with butter, rice, pizza with no sauce) — is the visitor-with-dog (which applies to no reader of this blog who has been to Morningwood ((ancestral Churbuck manse)) .

Anyway, in the tradition of killer quotes, here is why I miss being a newspaper reporter:

“And the term “family member” should not be used lightly. Ari Henry Barnes, who works in a New York law firm, is so devoted to his cat, Romeo, that he wipes the animal’s behind every time he does “a stinky boom boom.”