The month of July 2022 was a rough one for Blitzen. This month had some serious (temporary) escalations in his behaviors and also a bout of sickness. For the first couple of weeks after his MRI, we had him on memantine and pregabalin. You might recall from the last Bulletin that his MRI in June [...]
Zooka and Blitzen love parkour! This blog contains videos of Zooka and Blitzen practicing parkour on some of our obstacles. Dog Parkour is an adaptation of parkour for humans. Sometimes called urban agility, participants utilize their environment to navigate. That might includes walls, trees, logs, benches, or anything else in the environment to jump [...]
Does your dog greet you politely when you return home? Watch the video to see if Blitzen greets me politely. . . We love how excited our dogs are when we return home. Who else in our lives is THAT excited for us to return home? Greetings can be problematic though, if the greeting [...]
What does it look like when you head out the door for a walk with your dog? I bet it does not look like this! Watch the video to see how Zooka and Blitzen normally exit for a walk. Zooka and Blitzen are Vizslas. Vizslas are bird dogs. Hunters. Pointers. And boy do they [...]
The period of April, May and June of 2022 of Blitzen's life included his 2nd birthday. He turned two on May 11th. This time period also included finally getting Blitzen's MRI completed. While we do not want to do anything that overly stresses him, we also have to be very careful about what happens AFTER [...]
