I enjoyed writing about one of dearly departed dogs last week, Ragges, so I felt compelled to write another dog column. In fact, since I’ve put the flying column on hiatus, maybe I’ll replace it with a weekly animal column. Besides, columns are always easier to write than hard news stories.Sad part of life -- had five dogs, but now we are down to none, which makes for a relatively lonely existence. Okay, maybe I don’t miss cleaning up the occasional mound of dog puke or stepping in the messy dog diarrhea on the carpet in the middle of the ...