Here's our rules for hiking with your dog: Maintain excellent health through proper diet and exercise. This makes it less likely they will eat inappropriate things due to nutritional deficiencies and will help ensure they are not overweight and have the stamina for hikes. Keep up with appropriate vaccinations (or titers) and vet checkups to [...]
If you take your dog on off-lead walks in nature, which is what we do every day, it is good to know some rules about wildlife interaction with your dog. In a perfect world, we do not want our dogs interacting with any wildlife. But the world and our dogs are not perfect, so what [...]
No matter where you live, you will encounter some form of wildlife. If you love to hike in the mountains, you will certainly encounter wildlife. Whether you live in the city, the suburbs or a more rural area, wildlife can be found just about anywhere. Some of that wildlife is not dangerous, others certainly are. [...]
Most of us have some sort of holiday traditions. We might have special traditions for birthdays, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Years, or any other holidays celebrated throughout the year. Though we tend to refer to that time between Thanksgiving and New Years as the "holiday [...]
In a recent post, I gave a brief overview of the differences among service (or assistance) dogs, therapy dogs and emotional support animals. In my most recent post, I discussed therapy dogs in more detail. In this post, I will talk more about service dogs. Service dogs are trained to help mitigate the disability of [...]
