b'editor unleashedAnna Cooke, Editor in ChiefEvery song has a memory and dogs to come inside. I can still see theevery memory has a song.three of them tumbling down the stairs.Music is as much a part of my life as dogs Behind them, through the doors window,are. The very sound of a songs first note I could see what looked like the cyclonerunsthroughmymindlikeasurgeof scenefromTheWizardofOz. Debriselectricity,sparkingamemory.Hearing flying through the air. just a couple of notes into a piece of music Atanygivenmoment,amemorycan throw me into a movie character as ofoneofourdogswillunexpectedlyquickly as Meryl Streep changes accents.reveal itself, and I can go back in time.Atanygiventime,therearethree Sometimes,thememoryissostrongitrandom songs rolling around inside my conjures up the feeling of touching theirhead. While making a pot of coffee, first fur or the intoxicating smell of it. thinginthemorning,Imhumminga Theotherday,Iabsent-mindedlycombination of songs, which sometimes kept calling our ShihTzu, Teddy, by thesetsthetonefortheday.Ihavebeen name of our late great Scottish Terrier,knowntobreakintodancedownthe Dougie. After a couple of times, I finallyfrozen food section of a Publix grocery just acknowledged his presence and said,store. In my head only, its to the tune of HiDougie!Nicetofeelyouaround.One from A Chorus Line. Using the cart Thanks for stopping by. for balance, I sashay, kick and sashay! down In this issue of The New Barker, weDefinitely a memory (clockwise): the aisle, and dont care about the stares have allocated several pages to the subjectsChloe, Zoe & Rita by Stephen Bennett from strangers. The music has taken over. of death and grief. Our dogs lives are tooThe first song I recall dancing and short, no matter how long they are withsinging to was from Walt Disneys movie, us. It is the circle of life. Every dog hasCinderellathe original animated release. taught me something before leaving, even Thegroovesonthat45rpmrecordof those we have fostered for a short periodOne I Could Have Danced All Night were of time. Even Henry, who was with us forSingular sensation deeply engraved from constant playing. I less than 48 hours before we learned heEvery little step she takes cangobacktothatchildandseeher was in congestive heart failure. One unclipping the lock on the blue box that When we first developed the conceptcontainedtheturntable,flippingthe of The New Barker in 2006, discussion ofThrilling combination switch, then placing the stylus onto the deathandgriefwasvirtuallynon-exis-Every move that he makes record. There, on the floor of my purple tent.TherewereservicesandproductsOne smile and suddenly bedroom, sat Moochie, our smooth-coated available to help pet parents prepare forblack-haired dog. She had a white spot on deathandthegriefthatfollows,butnobody else will do herforeheadshapedlikeastar.Her people preferred to turn away. It was as ifYou know youll never wagging tail kept time to the melody. tospeakaboutitwouldbringonthatJust as music stirs my memory, so too which we dread the most. be lonely with do the dogs in my life. Every dog has a ThankstoCurlewHillsMemoryyou-know-who memory and every memory has a dog.Gardens and Natures Pet Loss, we wouldAchildhoodmomentinOhio, like to continue bringing more writingssittinginthebackyardwatchingmom on the subjects of death and grief in ways groom our two Cocker Spaniels, Gal and that are helpful and informational to ourSongwriters Kleban/Hamlisch Beauty. The sky quickly turned black and readers. It is my hope that by seeing andthe trees began to bow in the wind. A comprehending the written word, we willnoise that sounded like the distant roar of allbemoreopentohavingimportanta freight train signified danger was fast conversations on these subjects.approaching by way of a tornado.ThankyoufortakingthetimetoMomquicklycorralledusintothe sitbackandreadthisissueofhouse, pushing us downstairs. I screamed TheNewBarker. Theheartandsouloffor the dogs, who did not live inside with every issue is the love we have for dogs,us. Mom ran back up the stairs, swung past and present. open the screen door and yelled for the One singular sensation. U6THE NEW BARKER www.TheNewBarker.com'