Sweet Baby Tonka has perfected the sad, pitiful look.


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Is your dog a werewolf?

I knew I would be a little sleep deprived what with the time difference, but it's only three hours.  How bad could it be ( Read more... )

"Mmmmmm . . . yogurt"


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Since the Buttercup (she of the issues) came to live with me several years ago, I've been on a couple of dog-related lists.  My favorite is clicktrain, which is run by Shirley Chong.  She is wonderfully generous with her insights on behavior and ideas on how to change it.  Recently she posted this interesting link:

Right Brain v Left Brain

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For the last couple of weeks I have been, to put it politely, rather cranky. After my mini-meltdown at work just before the holiday, my mood has gradually mellowed to a general sulleness. But something fun happened at lunch today. I went to a nearby park to kill the hour and noticed . . . a man in a full bite suit on the soccer field. Next to ( Read more... )

. . . we go dirt bike riding out there all the time."  Thus saith the man who clued me in to the herding dog trials tonight.  Yeeeeaahhh ( Read more... )

Oh yes, there's a link -- click on the pic!


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Yeah, I know.  At four years old and sixty pounds he doesn’t qualify as a baby anymore.  But he’s just soooo CUTE and sooooo SWEET and sooooo . . . “OK, OK - enough already!”, you say . . . but he really is adorable!

Tonka is my first puppy and my first male dog.  He and his sister were turned in to a shelter Manatee County, Florida where they were ( Read more... )

First, let me make it clear that she came to me with that name.  I would never, ever name a dog “Buttercup”.  Not even one of those fluffy little lap dogs.  However, it is lovely for extrapolating nicknames.  She is known by, and usually answers to the following:  Buttercup, Butter, Butterdog, Butterball, Butterboo, Butterbean, Bean, Bear, BearDog ( Read more... )