Dog Training….Unraveled

Petunia

I’m not even going to try to catch you up on the happenings of the last, oh however many months it has been. My brain would melt. Instead, I’m going to share Petunia’s story, because I need to.

When Petunia came here, it had only been about a week since we had lost darling Hazel, who [...]

The rest of Hazel’s story

Poor little Hazel has been in and out of the hospital all week. They get her sedated enough to rest, get her breathing better, and then she comes home and deteriorates. I brought her home on Wednesday evening, after spending yet another night and day at the hospital, and she was doing ok. Not great, [...]

Hazel’s story….

Her story is like so many others, heartbreaking in it’s commonality. She spent several weeks at the shelter in L.A. No one really knows how she got there. Maybe she was dropped off, maybe she was a stray, the details sort of got lost in her travels. The details though, they don’t really matter. All [...]

Making Teak look good

So, I’m in Wyoming visiting my Mom. Who owns not one, not two, but three pugs. Yes, three. She’s crazier than I am. Of course, I brought my dogs, so that brings the total in the house up to five. Pugs that is. Then add the goofy Labrador and the Border Collie, it’s a bit [...]

Things you shouldn’t have to say to your dog

Please get the cow off my underpants.

Gonna need a high chair

Because I’m currently feeding her in her swing, which is a bit rough on my back. Not to worry, I have plans for a high chair, I just was putting off actually buying it because I didn’t really want to feed her. Don’t ask why, it’s some twisted Mommy crap “then she won’t need me [...]

Some dog stuff

So, I joined a dog training club last month, to, you know, train my dogs. “But aren’t your dogs already trained?”, you ask. Why no, no they are not. A fact that was made blatantly obvious to me when I joined the club and asked my dogs to perform a simple stand for exam. Hahahahahaha! [...]

And then there was Dyson

So a couple of months ago I met a lovely lady who of course oohed and aahhed over my baby. This, in itself is not unusual. Lots of people gawk at the child – you’ve seen pictures, that’s why. What made this different was this nice lady is a photographer, and offered to come take [...]

Squirrels gone left

Can it possibly have been over a month since I have posted? Wow. See the thing is, there have been things, and stuff, and some things going on. Mainly I have not been very inspired. That, and my darling little one suddenly is way more fun to play with, which means I’m playing stupid baby [...]

Sleeping with dogs, part 2

Ok, so I’ve had dogs in my bed for the last 20 years or so. Some weird things have happened. Occasionally my bed gets puked on, there is always a lot of hair in it, occasionally someone leaves a chew bone or two under the covers, and you kind of learn not to smell any [...]