Well, my awesome redbone coonhound Lady has done it again and is featured on the homepage news slider of Palo Alto Online. It’s for a good cause, as she’s promoting an event at the Palo Alto animal shelter this weekend, where shots are low cost and adoptions are half price. See my blog post on Love That Pup here:
I have another blog called Love That Pup about dogs and animals over at Palo Alto Online, where I recently posted “Try the Moonlight Dog Walk,” about walking your dog at the annual Moonlight Run for charity. Since the event is sponsored by the Palo Alto Weekly and the City of Palo Alto, the Weekly thought fit to feature the post on the news slider of their home page. So here’s the screen grab from my dog Lady’s five minutes of fame. She is a Redbone Coonhound, although I am well-versed in explaining how she is not a Vizsla (they have light nose, light eyes, sporting group) or Rhodesian Ridgeback (lighter coat, ridge on back, more powerful build, although technically the better guess because they are also in the hound group). The Moonlight Run event is over for this year, but do think about going out and supporting it next year, whether as a runner, walker or dog walker!
Now’s the time to think about what you and your dog will be up to this summer. Will it be going on vacation with the family, or enjoying the longer daylight by spending more time together outdoors? Do you have any new training or behavior objectives for your dog? Here are some ideas to think about. Decide to Travel with Your Dog. If you make the decision to travel with your dog, then you will find yourself undertaking to work out your plans to make that a reality. It may be that you need to adjust your plans somewhat, but where there’s a will there’s usually a way. For example, you might decide to drive rather than fly, if your dog doesn’t meet…
In training there’s a phrase “putting time on your dog,” which means working your dog around a particular discipline for a period of time. It’s not rocket science that consistency and time-on-task are key elements of any training routine. Of course, many short sessions are better than one long one, unless your training exercise is an advanced one geared to address a training challenge over an extended period of time. Anyway, this concept of “putting time on your dog” is a way to think about what you actually do in “spending time with your dog.” Being with your dog is the foundation of your relationship, from which everything else flows. And when you spend this time together, you are in fact putting time on…
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