We follow this contest every year – not only are the dogs so endearingly ugly, the event celebrates shelter dogs. Click here to see the pic of this year’s winner, Pabst, along with a slideshow of the runners-up!

And so ends another busy weekend!
We started Friday with the first in a series of eight training sessions with Emmett and Lucas. The course we’re taking adds escalated distractions and distance to commands. The boys are pretty decent with distance – not so much with distractions. Especially other dogs. Or kids. Or food. Or, actually, [...]

This is Emmett:

He is the sweetest boy you’ll ever meet. Yes, I may be biased, but he truly does melt every single person he encounters. We spent this past weekend at my parents’ house with many relatives and cousin-pups coming and going. Yesterday about 20 people came to cookout, including my elderly grandfather and great [...]

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.”
-  Josh Billings

Lucas is so excited because we’re heading up to my parents’ house for the weekend, so he’ll have three nights of puppy play with cousin Otto! We hope you have a wonderful, relaxing weekend. And happy father’s day!

There is a fabulous dog park about twenty minutes from our house. It’s huge and well maintained. There are benches and shady spots, water fountains and picnic tables. The park requires membership, which isn’t cheap, but it’s definitely a good thing because it helps ensure that the dogs there are vaccinated. However, it doesn’t ensure [...]

Whenever I get a comment or when I’m reading other blogs, I love following links to see what’s on the other side. From a great comment, I found another fabulous dog blog that I wanted to share: Battery Powered Dog! The blog is about the life and adventures of Hoover, a rescue dog with a [...]

A little over a month ago, John and I decided to plant a vegetable garden. Since neither of us had ever planted our own veggies before, I dug into the research. First, I found this really great article, the ASPCA’s Guide to Pet-Safe Gardening. Ultimately, we decided to do an organic garden to be both [...]

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”
- Roger Caras

Because of a whole series of activities occurring on the same day, last Saturday I ended up dogsitting a total of eight dogs: my guys Emmett and Lucas, my mom’s dog Otto, my sister’s dogs Tank and Buster, my cousin’s dog Turk, and my aunt’s dogs Louis and Bubba. All I can say is….. PHEW!
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I was out of town earlier this week for a couple days, and of course I missed my boys horribly. Also while I was gone, Turk’s person got back into town so he’s not here anymore. Though it was tiring to run around after a puppy, I do miss having his energetic, happy little self [...]