I wanted to call this “Earl’s Last Gift” but the Editors at G&G Suggested “Four Star Canine” and it was hard to disagree. This essay was one of the “20 Most Read On-Line Articles for Garden and Gun in 2019”. Earl was more than a dog to me, he was friend, family, and a mirror that reflected the best of all of us. I miss him every day. A desire to see Earl memorialized in G&G is what really got me started me down the writing path, which is just another thing for which I owe him. Sleep well, sweet prince.

Earl the Labrador is the single greatest reason I ever finally put pen to paper

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