1. If I am down, I will cheer up by thinking about dogs.

2. I will remember to be silly more more often.

3. I will get enough rest.

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I hope your dog is having a good holiday season… I hope you do, too, but here I am more concerned with the dogs!

I set out to write a post about not getting a puppy on Christmas Day if it’s hectic with lots of people, and then I thought, wait a minute, didn’t I do that once? Sure enough, here is my blog post on Puppies and Christmas. And here is one of the main tips:

If you are giving or receiving a puppy at Christmas, consider making the actual arrival of the puppy happen on the 26th or later. Christmas tends to be a busy day for many families, and it can be a day when you leave for Christmas dinner at another home. Of course, there can be exceptions to this, such as a gift to a lonely elderly person who will be home.

I did another holidays post too: Puppies, Dogs, and Christmas or other big events.

Happy Holidays to your dogs and to you!

Rosana

Recently I moved the sofa in our living room about a foot.  So what, you could very reasonably ask.  Well, the dogs turned out to think it was a big deal. My office takes up about half the living room and this week I encroached even more on the living room so I can put a rebounder in my office space.

This meant that our dog bed blocked the access to my office unless you like walking over foam all the time. I don’t.  This bed is a formerly-human bed, consisting of 3 pads that can fold up. I took off the cover, cut one of the 3 parts off and after recovering, put it in my office. Neither dog much cares about it.

The old bed was plenty large for both dogs, and they were often there together. Now the smaller 2-pad bed is the prime real estate. In this sequence, shot in about 20 minutes, senior LarryDog claimed it first.

Then he got up for a drink and Rottweiler Lola immediately came out of the bed in her crate–also in the living room–and took it over.

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Memorial Day weekend always feels like the start of summertime for me, to be highlighted by the 4th of July and wrapped up by Labor Day weekend. Here in the high country of Colorado, that’s about it for summer. My dog will be out in our yard more, and we’ll probably get in a few good walks with Lola, our five-year-old Rottie. Also, I want to teach her a couple of fun tricks, though I haven’t picked them out yet. Here is one  I taught her a while ago:

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