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Oh, I wasn't finished with my food yet…
Imagine for a moment that you are at a restaurant and you are eating your favorite dinner after a long day at work. You've just had a chance to take a few bites of the main entree and your two side dishes, when suddenly, the waitress returns and snatches the plate...
The art of making friends…
Today Shayne, Rio and I met up with a friend and four of her dogs for a nice walk together. Shayne, again, absolutely blew me away with her social skills (though I still use those terms loosely). My friend brought three really social dogs (Kobi, Potter, and Spencer)...
New Things for the New Year
I am totally and completely against resolutions... I don't think I have ever even made a resolution. Perhaps it's simply an issue with the word resolution and my never ending conflict with semantics. Given that some 80% of resolutions are broken within a month of...
Yay she growled!!
Way back in the summer of 2006 I adopted a 10 month old red Border Collie Mix. Shayne, as she would become to be known, was a very underweight terrified dog. I was made aware when I adopted her that she was food aggressive but other than being timid, she did okay on...
Dog Parks… Dun dun duuuuun…
Dog parks... they can be the source of great joy and the source of severe frustration. Now, not all dog parks are the same, some are certainly better than others but they are, nonetheless, frequently a hot-button topic for "dog people." Here's my take--dog parks are...
Together as one…
There is nothing I love more than the sound of the wind whipping past my ears (even when it's only 25 degrees F), snow landing on my eyelashes, the sound of hard snow crunching under my boots, the cold/hot feeling I get while hiking as snow lands on my cheeks, and...
Why it's hard living with an ACD/Whippet–Reason 2
I love Rio, I really do, but there are days where he just wont shut his trap. He is a loudmouth (and I lovingly call him this on a regular basis). While he doesn't bark constantly, when he does, it's intense. Curbing his barking has been an adventure (y'know, one...
To tug or not to tug…
*Face Palm* Hey Rio, did you know that.... "If you play tug with your dog, you are going to make him aggressive" "If you play tug with your dog, he's going to become dominant" "If you play tug with your dog, he's going to learn to attack people" "By playing tug, and...
Tidbits of Holiday Laughter and Cheer…
One of the things I love most about the holiday season is getting to spend so much quality time with my family... and the dogs...and the cats. Since getting laid off in the spring, I've certainly had ample time to spend with the dogs and since moving back to...
Christmas puppies become summer teens….
When I was 5, I went to see Santa at a local mall, like many children my age. Being the animal loving child that I was, when Santa asked me if I had been good and what I wanted for Christmas I replied, "Yeah. A kitten." Now, I think this Santa had it out for...