Why My Dog Barks at Dirt
Ajax, a beagle, is the sweetest, stupidest, most stubborn dog I have ever known. He’s pretty typical of hounds, which don’t always make the greatest pets. His consciousness revolves around three things: Love, Smells and Food. When he was a tiny puppy, Ajax liked to lie splayed flat on my chest, his legs out to either side like a baby, his nose tucked under my ear. Outdoors, he would shadow my heels so closely I’d literally lose sight of him. I’d turn this way and that, thinki