Thursday night we joined our training group for training in a closed-down retail store. There are lots of obstacles such as elevators and escalators, and retail equipment to tunnel through. It’s good training for dogs in service such as Therapy Dogs (like Juno) and cracked-up dogs (like Loki). “Princess I don’t know about you, but I [...]
Seriously. Why should I be surprised? After all, she also ate my Mini-Cooper. This time, I put my shoes away AND hid the trash can. I left my important identity file folder out on top of my desk because I need to renew my passport. She helped herself to the folder. When I got home, it looked like a [...]
Since Juno’s alpha doggie around here, Loki had to wait his turn to compile his entry for Mango Minster . He’s been patient (ha!) so lets get right to it. Naturally first we thought of the Herding category since he is half German Shepherd, but the only photo we could find was this: But lets face it. Loki [...]
Juno has been bugging me for weeks to get her entry into Mango Minster, but we’ve been so busy doing other things like, preparing to move, producing custom jodhpurs, making New Year Resowootions, doing Siberian Pilates and cleaning off muddy dogs. And we’ve been wrestling with which category to enter her in. The first category [...]
It’s been raining cats and dogs here in Northern California. Loki, Juno and I barely sneak out for an hour in between storms on our walks to the tree farm or school. NitWit Bridge has class 4 rapids running below it. Well, class 4 for a squirrel I guess since the river is a bit [...]
Yesterday started as a nice day. Instead of waking up to the bucketing downpour we’ve been getting every morning, we had sunshine. While Mr. Wild Dingo prepared to leave for Switzerland for a week, we headed out for a nice long walk to the tree farm where they both got to run free with 2 Northern dogs, [...]
“Did Woo say ‘CHEESE?’ “
Um, Loki?
Not too long ago, I teased The Herd about not walking in the rain. I egged them on and told them to go get their human’s rain gear and make them take them out on a walk. The shoe is on the other foot. I have wussy dogs. Neither one will brave the rain to [...]
For Christmas I bought a Chase It toy from Planet Blue Dog for the two to share. Talk about minimal effort to exercise your dog. This thing is like crack to them. Especially if you have a cracker insane dog like Loki. These are a few photos from a day after Christmas playing with the toy. Um, Darwin, [...]
I turn my back for 3 seconds: “Digging? Who, me? What mud?”
It was a pure coincidence that 2 BT’s were runner ups in the Wild Dingo Big News contest. And since Dozer and Dotti haven’t sent me a photo of their derriere for their jodhpur fittings, I had to go ahead and ship the custom made jodhpurs for Hubbles (who’s alias is Bougalou Bear) and Mack [...]
Thigh master, low impact aerobics, Tae Bo, Winslow Pilates, Power Yoga? They’re so five-minutes ago. Siberian Pilates is all the rage. Juno’s core- strengthening routine is making her a super star. We may just have to enter her in Mango Minster in the sporty dog category. Here’s a little look into what Juno’s Physical Therapy looks like. [...]
Why in the world would I take my dogs to the dog park and then make them do obedience exercises? Because its fun. Because I’m mean. (Booowhahahha!) Because I love our trainer’s motto: obedience, anytime, anyplace, under any circumstance. Most of all, because I can. Loki was and still is a reactive, alert dog. When I [...]
“I’ll give you a walk to first base this time buddy. But you’ll have to buy me dinner before you ever see the jodhpurs.”
Wednesday was Search Training day at Wild Dingo! We invited a bunch of friends over to take turns hiding and braved the ticks while we hid ourselves for a single dog and handler to conduct a search. Overall, it was a really fun and successful training experience. Each dog got two or three searches (that’s plenty when you realize [...]
“I will not use the nearby Siberian as a head rest.”
I was too sick to party on New Years this year, but apparently, somepup wasn’t! What can I say? My dogs lead a much more glamorous life than I do. Sleeping Beauty catches up on her much needed rest after a four-day party weekend.
A day late and a dollar short on my masthead this month. I must be setting the stage for low expectations for the coming months! This month’s header celebrates the blue moon we had on New Year’s Eve 2009. Apparently, the next time we will see a blue moon on New Year’s eve is 2028. [...]
In 2009 I committed to changing my masthead every month because I always grew so weary with my site design. What I was really bored with was the concept, not so much the colors or layout. So I decided to switch out my masthead monthly so it would feel fresh each month. Turns out, it [...]
