Rio's Done It Again

This past weekend Rio did some agility demonstrations at a local “Bark For Life” fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. In between agility demos, he got to play some frisbee in a GORGEOUS park on the North Shore of Pittsburgh with the city skyline on...

New "Ready To Tug" toys

I’ve been really negligent with updating my ready-to-tug toys but no longer! Finally sat down and took photos of what is left of my Ready To Tugs. I’ll be making more as soon as I can reclaim my table from all of our seedlings 🙂 In the mean time, here are...

Easter Bunnies

I’m sure that I’m preaching to the choir but I wanted to make sure that I addressed this in the blog. It is a very common theme for parents to buy their children bunnies, ducklings, or chicks as a way to celebrate the Easter holiday. If the family has...

Old Doesn't Necessarily Mean Mature

A few weeks ago I mentioned that my next investment would be child locks. Well, I bought the locks but haven’t put them on yet and was certainly punished for my procrastination tonight. I was working on some emails for students when I hear this *THMP* noise from...

Living With Reactive Dogs–home improvements

As many of you know, I’ve been fighting an up hill battle in my house of curbing fence fighting/reactive behavior from all three dogs. Shayne and Rio, after lots of hard work, are now easily called off of the undesirable behavior. They still choose to partake in...