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I love this article from the ASPCA on how to choose friends for your dog. Good advice that all dog owners can benefit from. -Anne
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Just like us, dogs are social animals, and many enjoy spending time with each other. If your dog’s a social butterfly who seems happy—rather than afraid or aggressive—hanging around or playing [...]
It’s freezing here in the Midwest and it has been for awhile. Subzero temperatures and tons of snow does not make for a great walking environment for dogs…especially short-haired, small dogs like mine. Zoey and Leroy do really well with just playing around the house…they are pretty mellow.
Stella is a different story (blame it [...]
Stella has this lovely habit of waking us up every night…usually once or twice at minimum. Since Don is a very supportive and kind husband, he doesn’t make me get up to deal with her because I’m so far along in my pregnancy. Usually he will just feed her a little bit of food and [...]
What is it with dogs and ice? Whenever we run our ice machine, all three dogs come running. If it’s hot outside, I take a bowl of water with a bunch of ice on our deck and the dogs go nuts over it. Stella acts like she’s bobbing for apples to get to the ice. [...]
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I think that whoever made this card had Leroy in mind. You see, Leroy is a marker…also known as the phantom pisser. We rescued him at five months and the Humane Society had already neutered him. I always assumed that marking was an issue for unaltered male dogs, but that’s not the case (although unaltered [...]
How many nicknames do you have for your pet? Do you think your pet knows that you are talking to them when you use their nicknames? This is a great topic that is covered by Sharon L. Peters of USA Today and is also highlighted in the blog Dogster. I was very [...]
