Halloween Costumes for Pets
October 31, 2009
Check out the Today show’s viewers’ pets all dressed up & ready to go trick-r-treating.
They also had a segment on this morning’s show of professionally done dogs – my favorite was the princess from Shrek. I can’t find these photos online yet, but they may be up on Today’s site by the time you read this. While you’re there, see if they have the segment where Lester Holt dressed up as Susan Boyle – it’s hysterical!
Until next time,
Good day, and good dog!
Happy Halloween
October 30, 2009
Not sure where these pictures came from – they were sent to me in an e-mail. Aren’t they great?
Friday Funny: Best Description of a Mixed Breed Dog
October 30, 2009
You’ve heard them referred to as mutt-i-grees, Heinz 57 dogs, mongrels, mixed breeds, and just plain mutts. But my favorite description of a dog with uncertain heritage comes from a book I just listened to on CD.
In “The Best Revenge”, Stephen White describes a pack of dogs this way: “None of the dogs’ gene pools had been contaminated with an AKC specimen in many generations.”
OK, I’m warped, but I thought that was just a hoot!
Until next time,
Good day, and good dog!
Indoor “Potty Patch” Alternatives for Dogs
October 28, 2009
Photo Credit: Patio Park
OK, I’ll be the first to admit I never even thought about teaching my dog to use the bathroom indoors. Of course, I live in the ‘burbs and can easily let my dogs in and out pretty regularly. So, when I wrote the first blog post on the PottyPatch, I thought it was a rather unique product. That post has turned into our top attraction, drawing more visitors than any other. And apparently, that interest is not unique to doggies.com. A simple Google search of “indoor dog potty” returned 7.9 million results!
Since I know by the wealth of page views and comments we have gotten about these devices that this is a topic near and dear to many of you, I encourage you to go read the article I just researched and wrote for our dog den about indoor dog potties. The article reviews 10 of the PottyPatch’s competitors, hopefully helping you to sort out the pros and cons of each.
Let me know if you’ve tried any of these products and what your experience has been.
Until next time,
Good day, and good dog!
The Story of Faith, One Amazing Dog
October 28, 2009
I know I’ve seen this dog on TV before but I can’t remember where. Thanks to friend-of-the-blogger Wendy for submitting this story about a dog born on Christmas Eve, 2002, and thanks to Judy Stringfellow for believing in him!
Top Ten Tuesday: Hero Dogs
October 27, 2009
I recently wrote an article called Extraordinary Hero Dogs for our Doggies Den article library. I’m not sure when it will be available, but I thought I’d give you a preview here. These are dogs who, although not specifically trained to be assistance dogs or rescue dogs, performed an act of heroism to benefit their families, or in some cases, total strangers. Out of the forty-four dogs profiled in the article, here are what I consider the top ten.
Dogs Can Make Your Kids Healthy
October 26, 2009
OK, we all know there are many advantages to sharing your life with a dog, but how about this! The New York Times is reporting on a study being done by the the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health, in cooperation with the Waltham Center for Pet Nutrition in England (part of the Mars candy and pet food company).
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The Shelter
October 25, 2009
I received this from friend-of-the-blooger Wendy. What better example of a dog’s love? If anyone knows who the author is, please tell us. [Read more]
Saturday Survey: Does Your Dog Help You Rake Leaves?
October 24, 2009
If everyone else’s dogs are like mine, they have to be underfoot, helping you with everything you do. So, do they help you with the falling leaves?
Dogs: Smarter than we thought?
October 23, 2009
Photo Credit: Time.com
A new article in Time Magazine shows that dogs may well be smarter than we thought. Seems Brian Hare, an anthropologist at Duke, has worked out an experiment that shows that a dog can respond to a finger point. Now those of you who have trained your dogs using hand signals may not think this is too ground-breaking, but apparently, it’s quite an accomplishment. From the article:
Consider…all the mental work that goes into figuring out what a pointed finger means: paying close attention to a person, recognizing that a gesture reflects a thought, that another animal can even have a thought.
When you think about it that way, I guess it is pretty remarkable! Apparently, no other animal (besides man) is capable of interpreting a gesture.
The article goes on to discuss other evidence of intelligence in dogs, as well as looking at how these abilities developed. It’s a bit long, but worth the time – very interesting!
OK, now I have to be snarky for just a minute. Does anyone else think it’s funny that the picture from the article (shown above) shows a greyhound and a guy named HARE? Wonder if the dog chases him around the lab???? Wonder if his mother knows she paid for his education only to find him playing with dogs!
Until next time,
Good day, and good dog!
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