Don’t you just hate it when you visit a blog and the top post begins with something like … “I’m so sorry I haven’t been blogging lately. It seem like forever since I’ve posted anything and I miss all my bloggy friends, but I’ve been terribly busy with PQRST U and V…”
It’s like the blogger [...]

Dear Neighbor,
I love dogs. My dogs. I may even love your dog, but I promise I’m not going to love you if you don’t stop your dog from barking and barking and barking and more barking so early in the morning and so late at night. Have you noticed that when my dogs start to [...]

My husband and I are German Shepherd people. Once you fall in love with a specific breed, you can’t imagine life with a substitute. Labs, Goldens and any assortment of pound puppies could easily steal our hearts, but when we picture ourselves snuggled up with a four-pawed family member, it’s a German Shepherd Dog that [...]

Our backyard needed help. A steep rise that transitioned our lawn to a woodsy area had turned into a pit of mud. Multiple attempts to mulch proved futile. Our son and his two German Shepherd cohorts in crime made sure each new bale of pine straw made its way into a pile at the bottom [...]

After several months of training our two German Shepherd puppies at home, I realized we needed professional help. We were making great progress on our own, but I wanted validation that I was on the right track, and the pups needed to enhance their social skills.
Both dogs would do just about anything I asked as [...]

Training dogs is a lot like raising children. You use the same commands…sit, come, quiet, stop jumping on the couch, don’t bite the house guests, don’t pee on the carpet, get out of the trash, etc. And just like educating your child to have good manners, you’ll get further faster if you focus on the [...]