It’s Earth day and seems an opportune time to bring up a subject I love chatting with people about: eco or carbon footprints. Footprints are something left behind after you’ve traveled through. So an eco footprint refers to the impact…
It’s in the Tone!
“It has to do with your tone of voice! Dogs respond to the tone not the words!” How many times have you heard that in the past? I’ve heard it many times. Most often in reference to the way a…
Role Models
This morning we joined a friend and her 5 month old lab pup on a walk. He’s a fun, bouncy pup. At that age where social graces are often a quite bit of a struggle. Observing him shift from in…
The Smell
There is a certain series of smells that I’ve come to know well over the years. It begins with a specific permeating offense the fills the car ride home from the park, causing windows to open no matter how chilly…
Foiled
Zora is perturbed. She’s more than perturbed quite frankly. See, I put a bell on her. The bell is on her CoyoteVest that she wears on our woods walks. And it means she can no longer chase chipmunks. I’ve spoiled…
The Recall Game!
There are loads of games you can (and I do) use to teach and reinforce the come cue (aka Recall). Round Robin, Restrained Recall, Tag, The Stalky Stalk Game, Hide & Seek, Treat Toss, The Bowl Game, and more. But…
A Walk with Tom & Zora & the challenge of overhead obstacles
It’s been a while since I did a walk video so here’s some footage from today’s walk with friends at a state park. It was chilly and a bit windy but a lovely day for a walk. (ok now it’s…
She Found My Glove!!
Zora found my glove!! Ok the start at the beginning Today we went on our usual Tuesday walk with our friends. Usually on Tuesdays we go to a different place to walk, but they recently decided to make that place…
Just Wanna Have Fun
We woke up to a balmy 22’F out today, so a walk was in order! Tom was so so so so so so so (did I mention so) excited that as I put his leash on he couldn’t contain himself…
Say no to Coyotes!
It’s Vampire Corgi! Ok no not really, just Zora in her new CoyoteVest. Over the past few weeks I’ve heard report after report within 20mile radius of small dogs being attacked by coyotes. One image of a large tomcat in…