Tusker: Lhasa Apso. Rejected from the breeder for the cowlick on top of his nose.
AKA: Poppalope, Apsolope, Poppaweenus.
Idiosyncrasies: Clown-like personality. Attacks sprinklers, steals remotes.
Favorite Snack: Fuji apples and eggs.
Tobin: Wire-haired Pointing Griffon from Maine. Has human eyes.
AKA: Tobs, Magobs.
Idiosyncrasies: Swims every chance he gets. Always first one in, last one out. He’s known to use the ladder getting in and out of the pool.
Will hop off the bed and come running downstairs if he hears you cutting an apple in the kitchen.
Favorite Snack: Frozen broccoli. Loves all foods save for blackberries and almonds.
Buster: Boston Terrier. Belong’s to Paul.
Buster: Chow Chow. Official Name: “Ch. Domino I’m the Boss.” Nephew to Ch. Domino Buzz Lightyear, and believed to be the uncle of one of Martha Stewart’s Chows.
AKA: Buster, Albert, Algebra.
Idiosyncrasies: Lies under the dining room table and likes to steal the napkins off of people’s laps.
Favorite snack: Cheese
Ernie: Airedale with a checkered past. Ernie’s original owners moved back to Manhattan and listed Ernie with the house. The new home owners were weekenders, and had no interest in Ernie so they relegated him to their live-in chef and dog trainer wife. The chef and his wife later moved on, and left Ernie at the house which was vacated during the week. Ernie was my first failed foster. Abandoned twice. Irony: Sweetest most sincere dog ever.
AKA: Woolydale.
Idiosyncrasies: Howls so loud when he dreams you can hear him across the street. Eats bees with ninja precision. Weaves in and out between boxwood bushes in order to scratch an itch.
Favorite Food: All food.
Tyler: Brussels Griffon. Loves to be chased with his favorite toy - an octopus named Boo Boo.
AKA: Tyler Mannnn.
Idiosyncrasies: Morning ritual: Wrestling with the cat.
Favorite snack: Greenies.
Simon: A rescue from Texas. DNA reveals mostly Schnauzer, with Chihuahua and Chow Chow. Previously named Bolt, and with good reason. He wears a GPS collar.
He came with a heart condition and given a year to live. His new owners granted him an angioplasty, and he’s now ? years old. Lives with another rescue, a Westie named Mingus.
AKA: Scruffy, Gibbs
Idiosyncrasies: Howls when the phone rings.
Favorite Snack: Bacon and cheese.
Sal: Miniature Italian Greyhound. Best security alarm money can’t buy. Owners refer to him as their “prison dog” because he has a teardrop mark on his head. (google that.)
AKA: Sal Sal
Idiosyncrasies: Loves to sleep under the covers and needs his luxurious blankets with his favorite toy - a piggy from Angry Birds.
Favorite Snack: Chicken. Backup snack: Stella & Chewy’s.
Maru: Bouvier des Flandres. Means full circle in Japanese. Lives with Clarise, 8 other dogs and 5 parrots.
AKA: Rooney
Idiosyncrasies: Pulls the newspaper out from under the parrot’s cage, so the parrot’s food drops to the bottom and he can eat it.
Favorite Snack: Edamame.
Clarise: Yorkie long-haired Chihuahua. Lives with Maru, 8 other dogs and 5 parrots.
AKA: Muppet.
Idiosyncrasies: When Maru is laying down, she uses him as a step stool to climb onto a chair, but can’t get down if he gets up and walks away.
She sits in Maru’s bowl when he’s done eating.
Favorite Snack: Edamame.
Cabby: King Charles Cavalier
AKA: Cabbers
Idiosyncrasies: Sleeps completely off of his bed so that only his back feet are on it.
Favorite snack: Cheerios.