There are many, many wonderful people in this world who dedicate their hearts, souls, time and lives to helping animals in need. These are not just the workers at local animal shelters but rather those who take in pets who have become "problem" animals or simply could...
We are on our way back from Venice and I have to say it has been a really great day overall. We were a bit concerned there might be too many people for Ayla or she might misbehave but she acted just like we wanted her to. Somehow, she always seems to know exactly when...
So I've gotten some complaints from friends & family that I'm not keeping up my blog very well at this point. Very true I had to admit but my response has simply been that things are not all that exciting in her life at the moment. Sure there are the truly...
We decided to use this weekend to practice what will happen when we have to set up and take down our whole collection of camping stuff so we packed everything up & found our way to Holland for the weekend. We had selected a camping site online a few days before...
We went camping again this weekend to prepare, train and just ready ourselves for our 3 week trip through Spain and Portugal. Since we intend to camp pretty much every night we're traveling, we know that we need to get everything down to an exact science so set-up,...
We went to visit grandma and grandpa this weekend. Hubbers had a birthday on Thursday and his dad had one on Friday. My mom also had one on Saturday along with hubber's grandmother but they were both in America for the event. Since Thursday was a holiday here in...
Today the World Cup started here in Germany and of course there are a lot of people here which are all worked up about...including most of the people working in my husband's office. They're almost like children on Christmas morning, completely excited about...
Being that Ayla is not as perfect as she could be when it comes to her behavior, I found the following "games" to play with her to help keep her in line and hopefully make us all a bit happier around the house. I've cut some text out since it's rather long but kept...
So I think I've mentioned before that we now have a Frisbee for Ayla to play with outside...and it has helped us to realize that we really enjoy throwing it back and forth to each other while she plays with something else. Of course we can't just confiscate the dog's...
So I tried the food control method for lunch and it worked really well. After the first couple of times of putting the food back on the counter when she lunged for it, she seemed to get the message very quickly. Of course she is HIGHLY motivated by food so that helps....
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