I wanted to title this something like ‘Bad Dog News’ but I was afraid regular readers might leap to the wrong conclusions.  The hellhounds are fine.*

            But . . . remember Mike?  Adorable cocker spaniel puppy given via deepest conspiracy to my friend Daisy?   A conspiracy initiated a few months after her last critter died (she had two old dogs and an old cat all go within a few weeks of each other) when she said to me with tears in her eyes that she didn’t know how she could go on witho