About Me

Welcome to Dog of the Week! I’m Ada and that's me in the picture above! I was born in May of 2020 and I have seven siblings. We meet up with each other and with our mom on our birthday almost every year. I love people but I’m not a huge fan of playing with other dogs. I think they’re interesting and I’ll watch them play but I don’t like it when the dogs pay attention to me. I also don’t like it when people pay attention to other dogs, I love all the attention! I don’t mind it when my human looks at art of dogs though just as long as they’re petting me while they do it!

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Hi, I’m Liz, Ada’s human! I’ve been loving dogs my whole life. Before Ada I grew up with two other dogs, Cocoa (a chocolate lab) and Ruby (a golden retriever) so I’m a big fan of all sorts of types of dogs. My lovely pup Ruby unfortunately passed away the year before I began college. I began writing a piece for the newspaper that I called “Dog of the Week” where I featured a new dog who lived on campus every week. It was one of my favorite things I did during college and I’ve always wanted to go back to that. During COVID we got Ada. A friend of a friend adopted a year-old pup and didn’t know she was pregnant! Ada’s siblings were adopted out to other families and Ada came with us! When I started grad school I had the opportunity to do an independent research project and I decided to make an archive of dog-related items in museums. The more I learned about the history of humans and dogs, the more I wanted to share it so I started this mailing list! People have been including dogs in their art for as long as they’ve been creating art so there are A LOT of dog related artifacts out there. This is not by any means a comprehensive list of dogs but I hope it’s enjoyable nonetheless!