Togo Goes Retracting

Sometimes your staff lets you down. I know better. I should check and double-check facts before I release one of my stories for publication. I’m coming to you today with a retraction and with the hope of regaining your confidence.

Shame and Humiliation

Daddy was doing his best. But we just have to own the fact that his belief that his knowledge of all things is encyclopedic is simply wrong. On the record, I would just like to say that I’ve known of Daddy’s propensity for error for a long time. 

You may remember that my last story was about my friend, Doug, the dove. And in that story, we identified him as a mourning dove. In fact, we even talked about the woeful sounds he makes and how they sounded like mourning. Inaccuracy stacked on inaccuracy. 

Fortunately, one of our readers, Ms. Carisse from Lubbock, contacted us to point out that Doug was not a mourning dove. In fact, from this picture, you can clearly see (as did Ms. Carisse) that Doug is, indeed, a white-winged dove. 

Daddy went undercover and took a few more pictures of Doug parading on the back porch. Note that he shot these exclusive pictures from his hiding place behind me. 

So, I want to apologize to you, my readers. Daddy has already been in contact with Doug and his family to make appropriate apologies. And we are hereby proclaiming “Doug is a white-winged dove.”

Move over, Linda Blair.

Now the record is straight, this late-breaking addition to my story. Daddy also took this picture of Doug which is reminiscent of that horrifying scene from “The Exorcist.” Apparently, Doug’s body is capable of walking in exactly the opposite direction from where his head is pointed. We are doing more research to determine whether all white-winged doves are possessed or if it is just Doug.