Remember that Go Orange Photoshoot Wild Dingo participated in a few months ago? Well, shockingly we did not win or even make the final five. But then again, though they were rescued, they weren’t rescued from an SPCA. For now, I resurrected some of the shots that didn’t make the cut for the shoot. Friday Fivers [...]
Juno has…well…an unnatural obsession with raisin toast. So much so, she’ll go against her own deeply-held values and belief systems in order to obtain just one square inch of the mouth-watering delight. Given the choice between raisin toast and a juicy tri-tip steak, it wouldn’t shock anyone at Wild Dingo to see her choose the [...]
“That is not your tri-tip. This isn’t the sibe you’re looking for.”
Coming soon! A video of a Sibe doing the unthinkable: Tricks! Here’s a teaser:
Ok, I usually don’t do advertise too much specific rescues on my site, but when I saw this, I had to post it. This is Locke, a Formosan/Kelpie mix up for adoption on the AHAN Web site. Currently, Locke is in Taiwan. Yes, I know there are tons of dogs in the states that need [...]
“Hey Daddy-O, this class is cramping my style. Let’s make like a tree and leave.” “Keep talking. I got a lot of room left in my ears yet.”
It may come as no surprise to Wild Dingo readers to hear me say that Loki is a punk. Ya’ll know he’s a bad boy disguised as a good boy in training. During Wednesday night’s beach class, the trainer asked me to sit him half-way to me during a 600-foot recall, while an assistant held [...]
How is it that we’ve lived in our home now two years and we have yet to finish a bathroom, put in landscaping, buy artwork, furnish the dining room, repaint areas that need painting or do any of the 457 things that need to be done, but our dogs’ treehouse is already on its first [...]
For the three readers who actually read this blog, the few who know Loki and ALL the dog handlers at the K-9 Clinic, you all know how far he’s come. Last year, I couldn’t last 3 minutes in class without him yapping, jumping, mouthing and thrashing around like a raving lunatic. Now, when he goes to training [...]
Mr. Wild Dingo’s been working Juno in obedience classes on Saturdays because Juno has a few, well, “issues” with Scott. For one, she’s terribly fearful. She never was the first few months we had her. For some reason, she developed it. We think it has a little to do with Loki being possessive of Scott. [...]
Last year, I took Juno to beach classes without Loki because she had to do a few special classes for her Therapy Dog certification. When I worked Juno by herself, I had absolutely no obedience problems with her. She did everything perfectly: stayed, came, heeled, sat on picnic tables. She even hurdled over BBQ stands on command. After she got her [...]
One of my current jobs is to keep the photos and content updated on The K9 Clinic Web site. Can you say “dream job?” How fun is it to add photos and think of silly captions? Check it out! Twinkle Toes, the Formosan Jumping Bean, shows us it takes more than one human hurdle to challenge [...]
Can you? Wanna be startin’ somthin’…
Everyone sorely mistakes Juno for the shy, not-too-smart member of our family. But anyone who knows Siberian Huskies, knows just how crafty they can be to get exactly what they want. And Juno is no different. This past year, though Juno has always submitted to Loki’s bully behavior, she slowly has found devious ways of leveraging [...]
Every morning is routine here at Wild Dingo. Get up, go outside. Clean up dog yard and put up with the ridiculous antics of two very attention-needy dogs. Mr. Wild Dingo has a hard time believing that Juno can be a tough little gal and stand up to Loki. Juno never displays her confidence or strength in [...]
Last July 4th, Wild Dingo’s rock star lifestyle took a back seat to a white picket fence and dog yard for our wild beast. This year, Mr. Wild Dingo wielded the tool belt and power tools to build a tree house—for the dogs. And as usual, it took a lot of work on both our parts. [...]
Mr. Wild Dingo actually looks like he’s listening to me talk.
As promised, here are some more pix from the Fun Match! Julie/Juno, Christi-Ann (our K9 Clinic Trainer/Nikko, Christine/Yukon Here we are (Christine and I) the odd balls at our Saturday morning class who take their cats, err, huskies to dog obedience. We convince ourselves that obedience is working for them. Here, they sit pretty. Sometime later, when [...]
This month’s masthead celebrates one of America’s favorite junk foods. I don’t think I would ever got the Husky to do a single thing without the magic of hot dogs. Marker training rules. Even for low drive dogs, like the Husky. Loki? He’ll do anything just for his marker word and some praise. For a hot dog, [...]
