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The Daily Companion — Audio Edition No. 14 (Monday, October 19, 2026)

Your daily newspaper for very good dogs, read aloud.

THE LONG AUDITION ENDS IN A YES. After a year and six days of daily auditions at the gate, Askia the Azawakh has examined the harbor end's new cello teacher, Miss Wren, and delivered the verdict the whole street was holding its breath for: yes. Also today: Bryor, day seven — the season has stood for its own audition and the house pronounces it promising; the Morning Game is Paper Tear; Djenne holds the doorway at the Harbor Precinct; Mali refuses the biscuit index in the Barketplace; and the Book Page reviews You Decided to Get an Azawakh — five paws.

Also in this edition: all eighteen Companion Sign readings · Tales of the City — Binta's twelve minutes of weather, Kano's caravan of one, Zuri's performance, with feeling · Weather Around the World: Bergen, Marrakech, Hobart and Juneau, and the weekend the sun kept its appointment in Gulfport · the Police Blotter · the editorial — Trust, Earned at Walking Pace · Bruno's Blog: On Beginnings, Kept Small · the Monday Blues · and Born Today: Bryor.

Musical breaks, drawn by wheel spin: the Yorkshire Terrier anthem after the readings, and the Afghan Hound anthem before Bruno — one minute each.

The Daily Companion is the audio edition of The Dog You Chose Press — from The Companion Signs. dogyouchose.com