An Amateur's Musings on Dogs and Their People
Posted in Reflections, The Puppiness Project on Jan 31st, 2011
Gretchen Rubin wrote in The Happiness Project about the year she spent “test-driving the wisdom of the ages, the current scientific studies, and the lessons from popular culture about how to be happy.” The Puppiness Project is my attempt to learn the same from Honey, my Golden Retriever. This morning I was woken by one of [...]
Posted in Puppy Training, Responsible Dog Guardians on Jan 29th, 2011
Honey’s been invited to her first baby shower. Her job will be to look cute and to not jump up on anyone. My job will be to make a dish to pass and pick out a gift. And because I’m a bit of a contrarian (those of you who read me regularly are now saying [...]
Posted in Responsible Dog Guardians, Silly Stuff on Jan 28th, 2011
Roxanne Hawn of Champion of My Heart introduced me to the Animal Purity Movement. One man’s campaign to end animal overpopulation by preventing dogs and cats from having “the sex” (at least until they are spayed or neutered) is HelpJoey.com. Joey will do whatever it takes to get dogs and cats to “stop chasing tail”–stage interventions, [...]
Posted in golden retriever, Reflections on Jan 27th, 2011
Honey is the first dog I’ve ever had whose birthday I’ve known. She’s the first dog whose mother and father I’ve both met. She’s the first dog I’ve raised from 8 weeks old. And although I still get cases of the guilties for bringing home a purebred dog when there are all kinds of wonderful [...]
Posted in Silly Stuff, Tue Cute Tuesday on Jan 25th, 2011
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Posted in The Puppiness Project on Jan 24th, 2011
Gretchen Rubin wrote in The Happiness Project about the year she spent “test-driving the wisdom of the ages, the current scientific studies, and the lessons from popular culture about how to be happy.” The Puppiness Project is my attempt to learn the same from Honey, my Golden Retriever. On my bookshelf right now I have books [...]
Posted in Reflections on Jan 22nd, 2011
Ok now. Take a deep breath. Don’t start creating an angry rant in your mind. Just hear me out. Cesar Millan, with his multimedia empire, doesn’t need me to defend him. He has plenty of followers with an amazing ability to repeat his talking points. Even the Republican party isn’t as good at remaining on [...]
Posted in Puppy Training on Jan 21st, 2011
I looked at quite a few videos demonstrating nose games and saw all kinds of interesting things. One family kept tossing boxes when their puppy took too long to find the treat. Another kept giving hints. And some of the videos are of more formal training classes with a definite intention to go onto more [...]
Posted in Puppy Training, Tips on Jan 20th, 2011
If you’ve been reading Something Wagging This Way Comes for a while, you know that Honey has been taking a K9 nose work class at the local SPCA. I’ve written about it here, here, here, and here (or search for “K9 Nose Work” in the search section of the sidebar to see the titles and [...]
Posted in Silly Stuff on Jan 19th, 2011
Jon Sung has an amazing blog on Tumblr. It’s just pictures of dogs he sees around San Francisco waiting outside businesses for their people. He captions the pictures in clever, funny, and sometimes profane ways (if you’re offended by four letter words, you may not appreciate Jon’s sense of humor). I love this blog. It’s [...]
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