Attributes & Functionality – Why They Matter

February 22, 2011
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The most recent onslaught of wintry weather — a breathtakingly glistening but potentially toxic mix of ice and snow coating anything and everything in its path — brought me out for the umpteenth cycle of shoveling this season. And as I cleared away the newly fallen inches of powder in the stunningly sunny aftermath of [...]

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Eye Contact: Love Or Betrayal

February 14, 2011
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Open, bright, relaxed and focused. Eye contact like this is a sign of love of a dog for a person. Dog love is a combination of nature and nurture. But even if nature short changed a pup, and nurture before you met, you can create the trust to get it from your own dog. The [...]

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Bubbles Gets Her Own Link

February 10, 2011
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Now that Bubbles has had her final set of puppy shots and she’s getting a much better grasp of basic puppy stuff, we’re getting out on adventures daily. House training in the eye of this particularly brutal winter is daunting but surmountable. But getting her out regularly, keeping an eagle on her when in the [...]

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Case Closed: Lakewood Dog Park Stays Open, Dogs Bark (quietly) For Joy

February 2, 2011
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The results are in at last. The nuisance wasn’t the dogs. It was the lawsuit brought by the neighboring city and 4 residents living in verdant splendor up high. But now, after years of dispute between grumpy residents and dog lovers which culminated in a week long trial last July, for which my irrepressible terrier [...]

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“Ticklenin” Me (tickling) – from the archives

January 31, 2011
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The seemingly endless snow and cold coupled with puppy raising has afforded me the time to poke into the archives to edit long ago footage into useless info. Bubbles (not her real name) was selected after an exhaustive search for the right sort of puppy make and model to mold into a great service dog [...]

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Puppy Raising in Winter – Pros and Cons

January 29, 2011
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Perhaps there is a vestige pioneer spirit from my ancestral line (Siberia anyone?) that compels me to agree to puppy raise in what is arguably the most daunting time of year here in Cleveland, Ohio (and this particular winter, in many other regions as well!). My new golden retriever service pup in training project has [...]

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Puppy coming in Winter; batten down the hatches.

January 18, 2011
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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 [...]

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Season’s Greetings

December 25, 2010
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Interactive Product Review 1: Quado

December 21, 2010
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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 [...]

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Shameless Plug • Cleveland – You Gotta Be Tough

December 17, 2010
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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 [...]

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