Category Archives: Holidays

Expectations Of Snow

  It’s a great day for the first snow of the year. It would have been Little Star’s eleventh anniversary of her first day here. It was a cold snowy Friday and it was one of the happiest days of my life. I would soon learn it was one of Star’s happiest days also. It…

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Thanksgiving Day: What’s Your Plan For Your Pooch?

A few years ago, my friend’s 150lb Mastiff ate a raw 28 pound turkey that was sitting on the counter. Both were unsupervised. Luckily, she was fine and full. Let’s just say, the next few days when she went to the door, it was opened often and quickly. I had a call from a new client the Monday…

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Confessions Of A Dog Trainer: Practice What You Blog

Well, after not following my own advice in Stress for the Holidays, and talking to a few friends, it seems this is the outcome. Stevie raided the garbage bin for the first time ever, (he’s seven so that’s pretty impressive). Sotsu got locked out of her house in between the screen door and regular door in…

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Stress For The Holidays

Well,  we have bought all the toys and treats for our canine loved ones, now what?  Let’s have a calm, restful, easy going holiday. OMG, WHAT ARE YOU KIDDING?  WHAT PLANET DO YOU HAVE CHRISTMAS ON?     Holidays are stressful, nothing else to say,  that’s just the way it is. Well, no not really,…

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