To Whomever Gets My Dog

I got this in an email first thing this morning and I wanted to share it with you. Remember - every dog at the shelter had a home before getting there. They had a family. It's hard for them too - not just you. Sorry it's a super long one - but it's worth the read.


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They told me the big black Lab's name was Reggie

DogsDeserveFreedom - Allergies Part 1

I believe Dogs Deserve Freedom, but what does that mean?


I've covered this topic a fair amount and generally my posts revolve around training. But what happens when a dog's health affects her freedom? I thought I would share our experiences with allergies and how they negatively affected our dog. For those of you with allergy-ridden dogs, this will probably sound pretty familiar.


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News Reel - Dog tries in vain to save its owner

Thought I'd share this one. It was emailed to me.


Dog tries in vain to save its owner

The Golden Retriever was found trying to tug its owner out of the water. When passersby found the retriever and tried to lead him to shore, he didn't want to leave his owner.

He is currently being cared for by the Oakville Humane Society as requested by the family ...

You know, stories like this always

Featured Rescue - Lady the Greyhound

Thought I'd post a sighthound today. There are currently 2233 Greyhounds listed on Petfinder.com. Greyhounds typically have a short racing career, usually retiring by the age of five years, and since their life expectancy is between 12 to 15 years, there are almost always adult dogs looking for adoption into loving homes.

This is Lady. She was a racing dog in Ohio but has since retired. Here's

Training Tools - Harness

How often have we seen dogs wearing this sort of apparatus? A harness. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I went to the dog park this week and saw FOUR dogs wearing one of these! FOUR! And guess what?? They were all small dogs ... one puggle, one pug, one JRT/beagle mix and one beagle.

Most people I know get the harness because their dog pulls which causes it to cough. The people don't want

Guess the Breed #3

Ok folks ... cue the irritating and corny music! Time for another round of Guess the Breed!




This is a purebred dog. The picture I pulled from a breeder's website ... I'll let you know where if you guess correctly!


I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with this breed ... I hope it's a mind-boggler!




Do you know it? Guess the Breed ...


Please remember the Golden Rules to these posts

Asshat Rant - Cyclist

So I'm at the dog park the other day walking with my dogs. I had met up with a friend who had brought her three and we were walking with around four stranger dogs. That brought our total of off-leash-crazy-dogs to nine. A healthy number, not too high nor is it insignificant.


So we're walking along socializing (both us and the dogs) when the dogs suddenly go all weird. Some of them start pacing