First Person: Old Dogs Stick Together - Rhode Island Monthly

First Person: Old Dogs Stick Together - Rhode Island Monthly

John Palumbo with Jake at the East Greenwich Animal Protection League on the day he brought him home. Photo courtesy of John J. Palumbo All my life I have been a dog person (not to the exclusion of other animals, though). My father worked in a Fall River textile factory and whenever we were “dog-less” a puppy would arrive, usually from a co-worker’s litter. Blackie, Dutch, Teddy — along with Sadie, who came home from URI with me — an array of mu…