Being a Good Canine Citizen

JB and I informally started working on getting her CGC designation about 2 weeks ago. What might you ask is a Canine Good Citizen and why does it matter? It’s an AKC-sponsored award that dogs can earn via a testand is an important step to take if you would ever like your dog to be a [...]

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Goodbye Charley

It hit me after I arrived home yesterday that Charley Bear is gone. I found out midday he was getting adopted by an incredible forever mom and didn’t really process it then as I was mid-workday and preoccupied. Bella and Jobear still have been a bit mopey – though a healthy dose of daycare yesterday [...]

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Varia

Been quite a busy few weeks – that combined with the summer doldrums are not motivating me to post. I took a technology break over the weekend – no PC, Internets, laptop, blog posting and/or reading. It was nice. So here’s what’s been going on – in no particular order of importance and in list [...]

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The Things I Do For Dogs (Many of Whom Aren’t Even Mine)

It’s been an interesting week on the foster/rescue dog front. Actually, there are 2 good stories and one not so good. One of the good stories is about Jag. Jag’s an English Sheepdog. His mom has cancer. He needed to find a foster home while she gets better.  Courtney and Charlie (among others) volunteered to take [...]

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You Can’t Make This Sh!t Up

My new foster arrived tonight. He came from Kentucky. His name is Serengeti. And his previous owner fed him a diet of fried chicken and Vienna Sausages. I can’t undo previous diet infractions but I can undo the name. Any suggestions? He’s about 90 pounds, shy, super-sweet, a smidge playful, a little needy of attention [...]

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She Fell Through the Cracks

About 3 weeks ago, I picked up a beautiful, 10-month old playful great pyrenees at IACC (Indianapolis Animal Care and Control) for IGPR named Daisy. She was an owner-surrender at HSI who made her way down to IACC via the new “policy”.  Jo and I were walked back to the kennel section to retrieve her which was very hard for me – [...]

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On Using Prong Collars

Blogging back and forth with Al has inspired me to write a post on my experience with prong collars. Let me first put a disclaimer here that I am NOT a certified dog trainer or behaviorist. Through my experiences with rescue and my own dogs I have done research and made the decision to use [...]

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Never a Dull Moment

Update: After a somewhat harrowing and long day, Jojo is home and stitched up. After a relatively uneventful night, the makeshift t-shirt + makeup pad dressing came off and the flap opened up and started bleeding again kind of profusely. I called John Rose who said bring her right over because it was a few [...]

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You Know You Own and Love Great Pyrenees When…

You are having dinner at a fairly nice establishment with the folks who run IGPR and have 4 pyrs of their own and mid-sentence and mid-bite you realize there is a hair in your mouth, you remove it, examine it, realize it’s long, white and has come from this dog, this dog or this dog, put [...]

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And the Award for Biggest Tool Goes To….

Yesterday was a bad day turned better for numerous reasons – began nuts but ended well with a Fat Boy party for Brigitte’s rescue baby Bruin who weighed 64 pounds when he came into rescue and now weighs 120 – what he should weigh.  After the party, Melody, Vanessa, Drew, Amberly and I ate at El [...]

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