‘Marley & Me’ Times Four

Lisa Scottoline, the lawyer turned author turned Inquirer columnist, has realized on just her second column how to get the readers to keep coming back. That’s right: Dogs.

But Scottoline doesn’t have just one dog, a la John Grogan. No, she’s already way ahead of that:

Have you noticed that, too? It’s not just me, is it? I’m not sure when it started happening, but all of the people who used to have a family dog now have family dogs. I have a full herd - three golden retrievers and one Pembroke Welsh corgi, who rules us all.

Scottoline then moves on to a discussion of whether the more dogs one has, the more likely one is to get divorced, full of charts and graphs and discussions with experts. Ha ha, just kidding!

Instead she shares an anecdote from a reading she did and says her dogs sleep on the side of the bed her husband used to. Ha ha! No, that part I’m serious about.

Chick Wit | Shedding husbands, collecting lots of shedding dogs [Inquirer]