It’s the little things

Our french bulldog Missy used to love popcorn. I don’t mean a casual love like she loves her butt scratched, but loved as in I will do ANYthing for a piece of that heavenly food. She could even do a Jedi mind trick with her stare. “Give me the popcorn …

More Pit Bull Idiocy

Some people get on my last nerve. Check out this idiocy that was in one of our state newspapers recently. Thankfully they printed a nice rebuttal opinion. I also wanted to share another response from one of the founders of SOME Pit! a bully rescue here…

Things that make you go ewwww

Check out this post from Frogdog on using rendered pets in pet food. For those that don’t know rendered means boiled down until it is a paste. It is then used as an ingredient in food as protein source. For those that want to know more about this pract…

The word of the day was socialization

As you could see by the past photos we had a visitor for a couple of days. He was a 9 week old smooth coated chow chow. I am friends with a fabulous breeder and when she has a litter I usually get to help socialize some of the pups before they head t…

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Walker makes a friend and my 1st razzy award

Walker did great at the boat show today. He made a new friend named Price and they played together a lot. (Price is also available for adoption at HSKC.) He went back to the prison quite exhausted. We also found out that Walker IS food possessive with…

A K-9 Corrections update

The bad news is that Cooper didn’t get his splint off the other day as expected. The x-ray wasn’t quite what the Dr. wanted to see so he gets two more weeks to make it 8 total. It is better to be careful though so he doesn’t re-break it and we end up b…

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Support your local shelters!!

We are glutons for punishment so we did another float. This time for the Maine Lobster Festival parade. Here are just a few of the photos I took before the parade. We updated some of our signs. This is cat litter boy. I love the back! Check out our new…

Itchy dog

Tonight’s oatmeal bath was a soak instead of the usual rub down. I have to say I think it worked very well. And for those who think their dog will always respond to verbal cues, try asking for a sit or a down in a tub of oatmeal water. I’m pretty sure…

A dog trainers version of the age old question

WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?Pavlov: we fed the chicken on the opposite side of the road each day at 4 p.m. until the chicken’s autonomic system actually began causing the chicken to cross the road at 4 p.m. without even questioning the “why….

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Jack is "The man"

I was having a conversation the other day about multiple dog households. It was about how some dogs just require more attention than the others. I can identify. Jenny is a dog that NEEDS attention. She is a busy body and has always been our high maint…

To war we go

I hate waiting for anything so I put the plan into play today. Jenny’s rash is getting worse so I went at it from both directions. First I gave her an oatmeal bath to address the outer direction. I finally learned the trick. I kept hearing about using …

Time for a new plan

Jenny is once again going through some itchy spells. She sometimes gets hives and sometimes these weird little sores on her belly. It got bad right before the trials so I put her on some Temeril-P. It is a low dose steroid and NOT something I want to …