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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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Dog Nights of Winter

December 1, 2010
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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, [...]

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Pets in College — Rescue Ferret Saga or Illegal Alien in Academia

October 5, 2010
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Do you ever look at your ringing phone and stare at it in contemplation as if it’s daring you to answer it — like Bob Barker asking you if you want what’s behind the curtain or in the box and you just want to turn off the proverbial television and crawl into bed? But then [...]

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Kong Wobbler Review

August 31, 2010
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Testing new products on my own pack is a prerequisite before I stock in my own store or recommend you get elsewhere. Here’s my recent review of the new KONG WOBBLER. I give it a FOUR PAWS UP, my highest rating. No Paws  - Skip it. One Paw – You might like it. I didn’t. [...]

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The Real DIP! Thornton Dip Coming Soon!

August 25, 2010
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The DIP experiment has gone splashingly well this summer. Undersocialized dogs have come out of their shell, traumatized dogs have rehabilitated and relaxed, and the party animal cocktail party dogs have been just having honking fun all summer long. But now kids are going back to school, the slant to the sun is noticeably different [...]

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Chicken Soup and Hot Dogs

August 14, 2010
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The Dog Days of Summer is the name for the most sultry period of the year and boy are we in it now! For a bit of history, it was the ancient Romans — obviously not distracted by pursuits such as internet surfing, television and vacuuming — who connected the dots of stars into 88 constellations. [...]

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National Assistance Dogs Week

August 7, 2010
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August 8 – 14 is  National Assistance Dog Week (NADW).  This week was created to recognize all the devoted, hardworking assistance dogs helping individuals mitigate their disability related limitations. The goals of NADW are to: Recognize and honor assistance dogs Raise awareness and educate the public about assistance dogs Honor puppy raisers and trainers Recognize heroic [...]

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What Do Dogs Really Want?

July 30, 2010
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Humans have created a wide array of dog breeds by tinkering with genetics and new “breeds” are coming out all the time by industrious dog breed mixologists. Very wee to ultra large, shaggy or short haired, hypoallergenic, functional or decorative — it really isn’t that hard to find a canine make or model (or two) [...]

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DIP coolness

July 25, 2010
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AUGUST SCHEDULE OF A BETTER PET EVENTS

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