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“Marley was dead.”
Whoops, wrong Marley.
John Grogan of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote a book about his Labrador Retriever, Marley and Me. (Recently, it was optioned for a movie).
I haven’t read the book, but I have read a few of his Marley stories. Having had a black Lab, I could empathize.
Apparently, though, some of his stories have been called into question.
From today’s Inquirer:
PHILADELPHIA – Credible evidence has surfaced that Inquirer columnist John Grogan might have greatly exaggerated the badness of his now-infamous Labrador retriever Marley.
In his memoir, Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog, Grogan portrays his now-deceased pet as incorrigible, neurotic, ill-mannered, flatulent and slobbering. But a SmokingCanine investigation found scant evidence to support the unflattering depiction.
One former neighbor, Betty Barcalot, told SmokingCanine: “Marley was a great dog. I once witnessed him dart into traffic to pull a chihuahua to safety. But did that make the book?”
The entire story is well-worth a read.
