Zooka turned 18 months - one-and-a-half years old! The month of October 2020 was mostly one of steady progress forward. But as you all know, progress is never completely a straight line forward. It often looks like two steps forward and one step back. Zooka has been doing very well with his at-home walks. One [...]
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 [...]
Does your dog howl? We recently discovered Zooka's ability to howl and oh my! Most of our dogs have never been howlers. We had a couple of dogs who did on rare occasions, but it was never something we heard with any regularity. We had never heard it from Zooka either. Until August 2020, [...]
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 [...]
