Dog Days on Maui, and on St. Croix

It’s often said in the newspaper business that readers love few stories more than a good dog yarn. Well, the New York Times delivered a double dose of dog stories on Sunday—both related to travel. In the news section, the paper offered a heart-warming tale about a woman who runs a market on Maui’s Hana Highway and loans her dogs to tourists. ““I know people when they’re on vacation must miss their dogs, so I let them use my dogs,” she told the Times. The tourists win, and so do the pooches.

And in a travel essay, Hope Reeves writes about the four-legged friend she met on St. Croix. She couldn’t say goodbye. “Caught up in the moment (and perhaps in a piña colada or two) I decided not to think about the fact that I already had two dogs—at least one too many for my Brooklyn apartment,” she writes. “And that my husband had shouted ‘No!’ into the phone when I called him with the news. Or that I was flying out the next morning to another island, and then another, before my return to New York. None of it seemed to matter as I scooped the dog into my arms and deposited him in my hotel room, smiling at the desk clerk as I slipped up the stairs.”

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