If you didn’t love your dog, chances are you wouldn’t be reading a dog blog, but how do you show your love? The list below is adapted from one published by the Humane Society of the United States.
Continue reading Tuesday Top Ten: Ways to Show Your Dog You Care
Steven Sable has designed a photography exhibit called “The Rez Dog Biographies” to highlight the plight of desert strays. What got Sable interested in the topic? On a landscape photography trip in the desert Southwest, he stopped to take a picture of a deserted highway in Arizona. Along came a stray to see him, and Sable, an animal lover, adopted the dog on sight. Although the sheltie/corgie mix was only about 3 years old, her teeth looked like they belonged to a senior citizen.
Happening upon a stray running the highway in Tennessee, Kathy Wilkes-Myers coaxed the emaciated Rottweiler into her car. Kathy, a member of Love Me Tender Animal Rescue, didn’t think the dog acted like a typical stray, so she set about trying to find her family.
As we end October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I thought this story from WEWS in Cleveland was appropriate. (No, it doesn’t involve NFL players wearing pink shoes – have you ever seen anything more ridiculous?)
If you didn’t notice, most of the posts this week have revolved around the theme of dogs doing something out of the ordinary, many times helping their families out of a jam. Which begs the question, has your dog ever done anything heroic?
Check out the Today show’s viewers’ pets all dressed up & ready to go trick-r-treating.
They also had a segment on this morning’s show of professionally done dogs – my favorite was the princess from Shrek. I can’t find these photos online yet, but they may be up on Today‘s site by the time you read this. While you’re there, see if they have the segment where Lester Holt dressed up as Susan Boyle – it’s hysterical!
Until next time,
Good day, and good dog!
Not sure where these pictures came from – they were sent to me in an e-mail. Aren’t they great?
You’ve heard them referred to as mutt-i-grees, Heinz 57 dogs, mongrels, mixed breeds, and just plain mutts. But my favorite description of a dog with uncertain heritage comes from a book I just listened to on CD.
In “The Best Revenge”, Stephen White describes a pack of dogs this way: “None of the dogs’ gene pools had been contaminated with an AKC specimen in many generations.”
OK, I’m warped, but I thought that was just a hoot!
Until next time,
Good day, and good dog!
OK, I’ll be the first to admit I never even thought about teaching my dog to use the bathroom indoors. Of course, I live in the ‘burbs and can easily let my dogs in and out pretty regularly. So, when I wrote the first blog post on the PottyPatch, I thought it was a rather unique product. That post has turned into our top attraction, drawing more visitors than any other. And apparently, that interest is not unique to doggies.com. A simple Google search of “indoor dog potty” returned 7.9 million results!
Since I know by the wealth of page views and comments we have gotten about these devices that this is a topic near and dear to many of you, I encourage you to go read the article I just researched and wrote for our dog den about indoor dog potties. The article reviews 10 of the PottyPatch’s competitors, hopefully helping you to sort out the pros and cons of each.
Let me know if you’ve tried any of these products and what your experience has been.
Until next time,
Good day, and good dog!
I know I’ve seen this dog on TV before but I can’t remember where. Thanks to friend-of-the-blogger Wendy for submitting this story about a dog born on Christmas Eve, 2002, and thanks to Judy Stringfellow for believing in him!