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Gratitude
Lyn and I were sitting at our kitchen table the other day. It must have been Sunday because the sun was coming up and we were still sipping coffee instead of hustling off to work. Our Lab pup doesn’t know what a “day off” is and she had woken us...
Dogs Bite!
Every year approximately 4.8 million Americans are bitten by dogs. That’s a staggering statistic when you think about it! That translates to about 2% of the population who will experience being bitten every year! Each year dog-bites send about 350,000 people to a hospital emergency room. 800,000 bites are serious...
Holiday Traveling...Over the River and Through the Woods…
Holiday season is also travel season. More people travel by car during the Thanksgiving weekend than any other time of year. A lot of folks will be taking their dogs with them on the holiday trip. Here are few tips and reminders to make the holiday trip safer and more...
Walk The Walk! Our 5 Dogs
We get a lot of comments from our customers about the 5 dogs we have at work with us every day. People see our dogs lying around behind the counter and often they’ll ask, jokingly, if they are real dogs. Or sometimes they’ll chuckle and ask us what kind of...
Mangy Mutt?
I recently had an opportunity to re-familiarize myself with mange. I learned a lot about mange 20 years ago when one of my dogs had a struggle with the stuff. To summarize: YEEUUCK!!! Mange is some nasty stuff! A customer walked in the other day and told me that he...
To Clean Or Not To Clean, Your Dog’s Dental Health
Does your dog have healthy teeth?
If you don’t know the answer to that question, you are not alone. It’s not always easy to check what’s going on in there, especially if your pet is not the cooperative sort. Even if you manage a quick glance at your dog’s front...
Vexing Vaccines – Are Annual Shots Necessary?
We don’t vaccinate our children every year for their entire life, so why the heck would we vaccinate our dogs every year for their entire life?
Every year they show up in the mail – brightly printed post cards informing you that your dogs are due for their annual vaccinations....
How to Fail at Dog Training
One sure way to fail at dog training is to allow yourself to get angry at the dog. Anger tends to cloud our judgement and make us poor, heavy handed trainers. In addition to it’s effect on us, anger also has a profound effect on our student, the dog.
Humans have...
5 Ways To Keep Your Dog Happy While Your At Work
As much as we would love to spend all day long with our dogs, kibble isn’t free. It’s a sad fact of life that we have to go to work. (Of course, if you’re a dog groomer like me, you get to spend all day with dogs anyway, but we...