Self-Portrait (with Human)

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Ella doesn't quite understand the concept of looking at the camera. Not that I'm complaining!

Dogs Ella Pets

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William Shunn
William Shunn

Hugo and Nebula Award nominee. Creator of Proper Manuscript Format, Spelling Bee Solver, Tylogram, and more. Banned in Canada.

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Infidel Dog
Poetry Online

Infidel Dog

Sometimes it takes a very special terrier to remind us humans that we’re more alike than we may want to think, and to bring out our latent civility.

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Poems

To Ella

I dreamed of you last night but it wasn’t you it was another dog who looked just like you but I was only borrowing her at the whim of some unseen and uncaring entity sometimes the dog was there and sometimes she wasn’t and I could not predict

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1 Min
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Ella - Signals
Music

Ella's Album Covers: Signals

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By: William Shunn
Ella the Wonder Dog, April 2004, 6 months old
Ella

Twelve Years of Ella

It was twelve years ago today that I posted my first-ever blog entry about Ella. I hadn't met her yet. I was traveling on the West Coast. █████ was visiting her parents outside of Chicago. The neighbors asked if she would adopt their puppy. She said yes. History was

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