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A young reader's perspective

I received the sweetest e-mail this weekend from an 11-year-old reader, Mallorie. Here's what Mallorie wrote:

"I loved reading about your dog, Greta in the paper. I came across it reading the paper looking for items that have to do with math. Our teacher gave us all newspapers (which happened to be the News & Record, my favorite). so I started looking and I saw your section. It was amazing. My favorite part was when you were looking under the couch and found the ball for your dogs to play with. I loved your section and I would love to hear more stuff like this. I love your writing and sometimes all I have to do when I'm having a bad day is just read that story. Thanks alot. Mallorie"

I'm so glad that my story about Greta's pink ball meant to much to Mallorie. There are plenty more stories where that one came from, stories about Greta and about my other dog Cassie. Mallorie, if you're reading this, I hope you visit our blog, The Pet Shop, at news-record.com/blog/thepetshop to read more about my dogs, and our other bloggers' pets. Carla has a dog named Yoshi and a cat named Buckley; Margaret has four cats, Julian, Abbey, Apple and Libby; Faun has a dog named Harpo; and soon staff writer Robert Lopez will join the blog to share stories about his cat Jet.

Excerpts from the blog also print on Tuesdays in the Life section of the News & Record.