The other day while gardening I heard the neighbors behind me asking their dog in baby talk if he was feeling better. I was not intending to eavesdrop, but hearing them ask him multiple times whether he was feeling better and seemingly waiting for a response from him each time, well that amused me and [...]
When I make travel plans for the family one of my first agenda items is making plans for pet care. Our dogs gleefully go to Sheyenne River Kennels - they love it there. I do believe they look forward to our vacations so they can have their own little vacation at the kennels. But care [...]
Two of my favorite things are fireworks and thunderstorms. Two of Cooper's least favorite things are fireworks and thunderstorms. Go figure. Cooper is our big orange dog - the one that barks at anything and everything relentlessly. I often marvel at the fact that none of the neighbors have wrung his neck yet as he [...]
I lost a friend yesterday. He was the best friend I had in my neighborhood. I will miss him terribly. His name was Toby and he was my neighbors' Golden Retriever. I realize that it likely says something about me that my best friend in the neighborhood was a dog and not a person. I [...]
As I understand it, our big orange dog - Cooper - is a German Shepherd and Saint Bernard mix. I say "as I understand it" because the information came to me secondhand from the shelter where Cheyenne and I adopted Cooper at five months old. I don't know if they knew his composition for sure or whether it was merely a visual [...]
Our family dog Cooper loves the sound of his own bark. For the most part, he is the only one. Cooper will bark at anything and anyone with his big, deep alpha male bark...incessantly - I should add that...he will bark incessantly until everyone within earshot wants to kill him. We have had Cooper for [...]
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