I'm a week late, but we're officially halfway through 2011. How?? It's sort of unbelievable how fast time flies! Did you set any dog training resolutions or goals for the year? I always set tons of goals at the beginning of the year, and I try to check in on them at milestones - like halfway through the year - to see if I need to rearrange or reprioritize. Here's my recap (posted mostly
First dog
This is Sparky: He was my very first dog. My family bought him from a pet shop in a mall in Baltimore in the early 80s. (Sigh. What we didn't know back then.) My parents somehow deciphered that when my younger sister, who was probably around 4 at the time, said she didn't want a dog that "got old," what she really meant was she didn't want a dog that got big. So we bought a
The “go find it” game
Cooper's energy knows no bounds. For instance, on Saturday, I took him for a long walk in the morning, he had a puppy play date at the dog park in the afternoon, our 10-year-old neighbor came and took him to play in the park in the evening, and by nightfall he was jumping all over Lucas. Lately, we've been having a lot of pretty severe thunderstorms. Luckily (thankfully) my guys don't seem
Two tales of dog walk frustration
On Saturday morning, I took Cooper for a long, leisurely walk through our neighborhood, down along a local trail, and the looong way home. We were walking through an undeveloped section where empty lots are overgrown with two-foot-high weeds. When we moved here in 2008, these lots were supposed to become homes. After the housing market crashed, they're piles of wood, debris, and scraggly, prickly
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