Last year I got an email from a friend which included the comment, “Another thought about pets in general is that the more one pays attention to them the clearer their needs are transmitted. This is kind of obvious but we do tend to forget.”
I mulled over that “obvious” thought. How closely did I [...]
I’ve done mind mapping for many years, about as long as I’ve been training my dogs, but never until today did it cross my mind to combine the two activities.
So what is mind mapping, and why might you want to use it for your own dog training? If a picture is worth a thousand words, [...]
I’m writing this with a heavy heart, because this morning a friend took a dog to be euthanized for behavioral reasons. I know my friend well, and she knows a huge amount about dogs and dog training. I have seen her with her dogs and with mine. When our Rottweiler Lola was a bit timid [...]
How prepared are you and your dogs for a natural disaster?
This came up big time for us a few months ago, when torrential rains did some serious damage to our town. Here are some tips.
1. Depending on where you live, you might have to deal with earthquakes, floods, tornados, lots of rain, blizzards, [...]
Halloween! Trick or treaters! Some wild and crazy energy at times! And what about your dog or dogs?
Will there be treat-or-treaters coming to your door, or teenagers roaming around with possibly more mischief than usual on their minds?
Making sure that your dog gets through Halloween just fine is really quite simple. Know your dog and [...]
For two or three years now, I’ve had another dog website but I’ve never quite figured out how to make it work.
This week, I had an AHA and now it’s finally got some content on it.
The website is www.online-dog-resources.com and my plan was to bring together a variety of places where you can get dog [...]
We’ve just gotten back home from a two-month road trip around the U.S. LarryDog was well cared for here at home and he went wild when we arrived, but I want to tell a different story here.
We had about a week’s vacation in the Ozarks, lovely ancient mountains. We sometimes look at real estate when [...]
For over a year now, my husband and I have been living in Mexico. We consider it an experiment and don’t know yet if we will return permanently to the small town in Colorado that we came from. Since much of our business is online, we can spend time anywhere in the world that [...]
Wednesday we had a hectic spell, with a friend visiting on the front porch, our cellphones ringing, and a neighbor named Avelino working for us on a project beside the house — a workshop for my husband.
Somehow in all this, LarryDog managed to get out in the yard. We normally keep him in when there [...]