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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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Capture the Flag

November 23, 2010
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I’ve been having a lot of childhood memories lately. Triggered by my mother’s death 11 days ago after an almost unprecedented 21 year battle with Alzheimer’s. Her death set off a myriad of events which turned into a nurturing soul cleansing of mourning. In my experience, the loss of my mom, this involved amazing support from [...]

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The real blue dogs

November 4, 2010
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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 [...]

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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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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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Classes Starting Soon. Register for your spot!

June 19, 2010
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Summer starts officially at 9:48 pm EST on Father’s Day this year. Tomorrow!  But already the sultry humidity and lush green of the heights is under full swing. Learn how to train, manage, enjoy your dog or puppy, morph behavioral problems into fixes and take responsibility and control using the concepts of benevolent leadership and [...]

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Walking the walk AKA Kudos to my big sis

May 26, 2010
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proverbios y cantares xxix by Antonio Machado Caminante, son tus huellas el camino y nada más; Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace el camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante no hay camino In English [...]

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Willard Water Wonder

May 21, 2010
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Did you ever have the experience of learning about something that was really super cool and then forgetting about it? Then circumstances bring you back and you remember and vouch for its amazingness.  Then you forget about it again? Well, from my end it’s either early dementia, extreme stubborness or my own aphorism, “sometimes it [...]

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Lecture Series Session 2: Bereavement & Pet Loss

April 12, 2010
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BEREAVEMENT & PET LOSS Bringing our hearts into a relationship with another species whose life expectancy is relatively short certainly stacks the odds that you will experience the loss of a companion animal. Whether the relationship was obvious to anyone, each person grieves differently. When the need arises to process those stages of grief that [...]

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