Zooka's 17th month, September 2020, was full of hikes, visits to the mountains, and snuggles - many of my favorite things! Your dog's adolescence is a time generally filled with great progress mixed in with some (hopefully short-term) regressions and new behaviors that crop up from time to time. One thing it never is though? [...]
The month of August 2020 was filled with getting away from home more and more helping me out with my business. Normally, we are booked up with boarding dogs during the spring and summer months with lots of people traveling. With the pandemic this year, there has been less traveling. While that definitely takes a [...]
Most of us who have dogs enjoy taking walks or hikes with them. That's one of the reasons we have a dog. Someone who enjoys getting out as much as we do. Well, probably enjoys it even more than we do. Our dog is tuned in. We are tuned in. We are enjoying a [...]
Some dogs love water. Some love water in some forms and not others. Some are not big fans of water - other than to drink it. Even some breeds that are supposed to be "water dogs" (like Labs, Poodles, Portuguese Water Dogs, etc.) do not love the water if they do not get the [...]
July 2020. One year ago we drove to North Carolina to pick up Zooka. On our way there, we did not know which puppy we would be bringing home and we did not have a name chosen. One year later, we are very happy with our choice. This month we had more visiting dogs with [...]
