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rescue |ˈreskyoō| verb ( -cues , -cued, -cuing ) [ trans. ] save (someone) from a dangerous or distressing situation : I’ve written in the past about my work in the world of rescue. That is, of unwanted animals needing a new home. I consider it a non denominational tithing portion of the work I [...]
Rescue and rehab of dogs is often part of a dog trainer’s life. I have had numerous rescue dogs I have fostered — Ruby, one of my first, a red merle australian shepherd pup — stayed 2 years and left to become a service dog to a little girl with spina bifada in 2003. Rarely [...]
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While there have been a rasher of visiting dogs living alongside my own pair off and on, mostly on, for the past six months, all were serendipitous additions of various breed types and ages and issues and who came with no real warning. Nor were they selected by me for any characteristics — they just [...]
PRODUCT REVIEW GUIDE Always questing for things in Dog Toy Category Three: Interactive Toys that I can recommend for those with active dogs who need mental challenges, I have undertaken my own Interactive Dog Toy Reviews. First up, Quado. I think I picked it because it uses the word GINORMOUS in its packaging. It’s one [...]
The near blizzard of earlier this week forced a slow down, bringing to the surface with an ice cold punch the kind of awareness weather can have on limiting outdoor time for some of us in humid continental climates. Yet the active mind of the canine who might not be getting as much outdoor walking [...]
Days are shortening, Thanksgiving is behind us, we begin the festival of lights — Hanukah — tonight at sundown! Speaking of sundown, we in the northern hemisphere are on that trajectory to get shorter and shorter days for the next 3 weeks before the solstice and only then, in what is often an excruciating slowness, [...]
DIPs have proven to be such an amazing experience since launching them back in the beginning of the summer. Not only have I had the pleasure to watch dogs learn social skills or get their mojo back, but it’s been a great exposure to more and more nuanced awareness of dog/dog social skills that endlessly [...]
The midterm elections are over. Gone now are the relentless and mostly negative ads and the results are in. I think Trip is a blue dog. But not in the political sense. Normally perky for games of fetch, it was a calmer day for the introspective terrier. Bosco insisted on wearing his ladybug costume long [...]
It’s gettin’ to be that spookin’ time of year. On walks I hear the crunch crunching of the fallen deadened leaves; the Hunter’s Moon is soon upon us and I can almost hear the werewolves howling off in the distance. It seemed appropriate to play around with some of the options for Bosco to figure [...]
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