mingusandthebitch

Mingus the Black Labrador Retriever, and his bitch, writer Christine Saulnier, blog about love, death, walks and food, aging and bodies falling apart, and about silly dogs and FAR SILLIER humans. Mingus died on November 18, 2008. This memoir is a small,loving tribute to his GIANT spirit.

About Mingus and The Bitch

About Me:

I was born in the country by a lake named Michael. My breeder thought I was lazy, but I was just observant and laid back. I knew my bitch would call for me at the right time, and she did.

Her name is Christine Saulnier but I call her The Bitch, T.B. for short. My kennel call name was Cool Blue. When T.B. and I fell in love I offered her Christine Blue as a new name, but she said I was with her to take the blue out of Christine. I think I have. She wears red quite often.

My Bitch wanted to call me Getz, but I refused to respond thinking, “you threw the damn thing, you getz it.” "Mingus" sounded better all around to me. I relate to dissonance.

I’m fourteen in human years now. T.B. thinks it is an appropriate time to write my memoirs so that she'll have this legacy of me after I die. What if she dies first, what will I have? A dead writer and all the beds to myself?

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015