BOBBLE TIKI THINKS HE'S READY >>>

Bobble Tiki knows life will change.  He knows travel will become a bitch and daily walks will become imperative and going out for a beer sans canine for hours on end will become slightly pressured and more urgent, because Bobble Tiki knows he's gotta get home at some point so the dog doesn't think he's dead and eat all of the wicker and find the credit cards and start ordering streaming cat porn.

Bobble Tiki knows the automobile will smell permanently of dander, and Bobble Tiki knows that since he wears a lot of black (mandatory for writers - it says so in the manual) it is wise not to get a white dog or Bobble Tiki will spend the next nine years with one of those sticky lint roller things in one hand and a Hoover in the other.

Bobble Tiki also knows there are exactly 12,000 books on proper training techniques and there are as many schools of thought on how to raise a great dog as there are religions (and, by extension, fanatical followers of both), and he knows they are all absolutely correct, and yet, none is absolutely correct because every dog is different and if they weren't we'd be very very bored and probably switch to parrots or ferrets or vampires.

So, Bobble Tiki will attend today's Dog-A-Thon at Fort Steilacoom Park looking for answers amongst the thousands of dog freaks picking up their "best friends'" crap. Bobble Tiki is ready. He just hopes the dog is.

Dog-A-Thon

Saturday, July 24, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Fort Steilacoom Park, 87th and Steilacoom Boulevard, Lakewood
253.284.5811