In the spring of 2022, I was contacted by a well known dog training company in the greater Cleveland called Elite K911 Dog Training & Behavior looking to do a branded promotional video about their growing business.
Sometime over the summer of 2023, I was contacted by a friend named Lennie Stover. I was introduced to Lennie in 2018 through a contact I made during the pre-production phase of a documentary – “Train Ave”, I was directing and producing at the time.
In this fifth episode – titled “An Advocate Is Born“, of the inaugural season of the “I Am Human. This Is My Dog.” podcast, I uncover two invaluable lessons that force me to not only ask the questions I know, but also begin to question and critically think about what I previously thought I know is true.
Located within the historic Lake View Cemetery – a notable resting place for some of Cleveland’s most prominent and influential residents of the past, lays claim to the most haunting beautiful statue named The Angel of Death Victorious.
In the spring of 1861 – at the start of the American Civil War in Camp Wayne in West Chester, PA, a civilian gifted the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry with a four week old puppy. The soldiers named her Sallie Ann Jarrett after their commanding officer, Colonel Phaon Jarrett and a young townswoman they were fond of.
The attached press photo appeared in a side story by an American media company – ACME Newspictures, dated November 2, 1933. In Archive #7, we will discuss this unexpected interspecies relationship between a Boston Bulldog named Peaches and a wild rabbit.
I never really wanted three dogs…it just sorta happened, which is partially why the process of gathering my thoughts for the contents of this blog entry have been so painful to digest and write about. But, since the evening of July 8, 2020, it’s been long overdue.
For nearly a century, generations of children grew up watching some version of a pit bull dog named Pete the Pup. In Archive #6, we take a look at the real life dog who played the character of Pete in the Our Gang comedy series.
In this fourth episode – “The Cost of Political Wars”, of this inaugural season of the “I Am Human. This Is My Dog.” podcast, I am forced to jump slightly ahead to the spring of 2009 to an interview I conducted with a man named Leonard Shelton.
