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Throwback Thursday–My Best Advice…

Best Advice I can Possibly Give... "Be your dog's advocate." That is, I think, the best advice I can give to people with dogs. "Be your dog's advocate!" That is, I think, the best advice I can give to people who are handling dogs with a variety of behavioral issues or...

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Getting Back Into the Game

Getting Back Into the Game December 9th 2012, the last time Rio touched a piece of agility equipment other than my backyard weave poles.  August 2012, the last time Rio had any type of agility training. Flip to the last week of December 2013, I happen to catch a post...

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Freezing Temps–Fired Up Dogs!

Freezing Temps--Fired Up Dogs! It's Monday night at 10pm or so and it's already -6F  air temp with windchill of -25F. Today's temps dropped like a rock and it was 0F by this afternoon.  We are lucky that these temps are only going to last another day and a half or so...

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Hey! That's Not Dominance!

Hey!  That's Not Dominance! I regularly get asked questions from dog guardians that are worried about their dog being dominant (this happens more often than I would like to mention).  They are often genuinely concerned because they've either heard a T.V. personality...

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Don't Think, Just Do

Don't Think, Just Do Last week I met up with a friend to go on an adventure and then out to lunch.  With road conditions potentially changing, we opted to ride in her 4-wheel drive SUV instead of my little car.  I don't remember the last time I was in a car and wasn't...

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Finding My Voice Again

Finding my Voice Again It is 2014 and I am posting a new blog for the first time in 3 months.  I have spent the last few months wanting to write and trying to write blogs--I have written and deleted countless blog entries--but nothing seemed right or important or even...

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FREE Pre-Puppy Consultations

FREE Pre-Puppy Consultations I am in the business of putting myself out of business--dogs are brought to me with problems or needing training, and I give the owners what they need to remedy these problems.  Once the behaviors have been remedied, they often go off into...

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How Much Snarking Is Okay?

How Much Snarking Is Okay? I will be pretty honest and say that I have quite the structured and well managed house, in terms of my pets. Nearly all of my critters have some sort of special need that requires some management or structure to mitigate and make our home...

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Kyjen Slow Feeders–A review

Kyjen Slow Feeders--A review I don't know about you but I have some serious food inhalers in my house.  It's not so much an issue now since I feed primarily raw and when I feed kibble it's not in a bowl, but I am still really intrigued by the slow feeders I've seen....

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How to effectively Ditch The Food Bowl

How to effectively Ditch The Food Bowl I've written before about ditching your food bowl a few different times over the last few years but I've never focused an entire post on the subject (or not a detailed informational post).  I have mentioned my use of toys...

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