Be an advocate for Fido!

Well, I had this great post written about how you should go about greeting dogs you are unfamiliar with …but my good friend Casey Lomonaco KPA wrote a lovely post about that topic today.  So, go check out her Behavior and Training blog about how to greet an...

Space Saver…

Alright, this past weekend (well, Friday/Saturday) I attended full-day dog behavior seminars with Sarah Kalnajs.   I need today to “digest” everything, but tomorrow (hopefully), I’ll post about the experience… so hang on! Happy...

Fat Fido to Fit Fido

Alright, so you gave your dog a once over and have discovered he is not as lean as he could be….now what?  Well, that sort of depends just how much extra weight your dog is carrying.  If your dog packed on a pound or two of winter weight (for a medium sized...

Root of handler frustration…

Today I took the dogs to the farm again.  We are supposed to have wicked afternoon storms for the next few days so exercise must be done in the morning and the farm is one of the ways the pups get knocked out for a long time on not too much exercise (only two hours at...

My apologies… again

Alright, I’ve dropped the ball … again (it was a sad hockey night).  I find myself exhausted after a ridiculously busy day (and of course the hockey game) and unable to commit to writing a post and searching for and putting together a spiffy photo/title...

Well, that's not entirely true…

This is more of a personal rant I suppose, but it’s something I’ve heard a few times recently and it started to bug me and I just want to get it off my chest.  Since the weather has turned nice, I’ve stared to bike with the dogs again and I’ve...