When Kiera, my Austrialian Shepherd, was young, Andrew and I would take turns every day taking her for a run. Not each of us every other day. Every day, twice a day at least, we’d take her for a 3-mile run. I’d have the morning shift and he’d take the evening shift. That barely took the edge off her need to run.

My legs don’t want to run 3 miles everyday anymore. So if I were ever to get another … Read More

Tis the Season to Get Puppies

December 24, 2014 / Dog Training, Dogs in General / By Karen Shanley / 2 Comments

Fa la la la la, la la la la!

Cait’s boyfriend’s family is a case in point. They just got a little Bichon Frise. He’s cute as a button and the only problem he will face is potential love overload. They just got him, and I just got the first phone call of many on training questions.

Which means, of course, that it’s time for another primer on house-training.

5 Rules For How to House Train Your Puppy

First … Read More

Herd mentality: ‘Sheepdog mystery’ solved at last. Really?!

August 28, 2014 / Dog Training, Dogs in General / By Karen Shanley / 2 Comments

Paris (AFP) – There is the riddle of the Bermuda Triangle. The unresolved identity of Jack the Ripper. The enigma of how the Universe developed beyond a quark-gluon soup following the Big Bang. And then there is the Sheepdog Mystery. A puzzle that has niggled mathematical minds for years, the Mystery is this: how does a single dog get so many selfish sheep to move so efficiently in the same direction? The answer, revealed on Tuesday in a journal published

Pet First Aid App

August 14, 2014 / Dogs in General, Finnegan the Coon Cat / By Karen Shanley / 4 Comments

It’s been an interesting week. We’ve been fighting hard to bring Finn back from the brink of death and he’s finally out of the woods (more on that in another post), and Cait has been very chatty about the movie, Into the Storm.

So combine one very sick animal and a wacko weather movie, and you won’t be surprised that I went looking for an app like this. It’s a great little app. If you decide to download it, … Read More

Find Momo

April 7, 2014 / Dogs in General / By Karen Shanley / 1 Comment

Wish I’d thought of this. Guaranteed to put a smile on your face!… Read More

How to Protect Your Dog in Cold Weather

February 2, 2014 / Dogs in General, Just Dogs / By Karen Shanley / Leave a Comment

After two days of reasonable winter temps, we’re headed back for another brutal cold snap. All kidding aside about Graidy and Wink being winter wusses, they both have conditions that make the cold and snow more difficult for them to handle. Both have very fine, single layer coats with little insulation value (versus Kiera’s thick 2-layer winter coat with undercoat). Graidy, at 10 yrs old, has a touch of arthritis and Wink’s short legs often put his underside in direct … Read More