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Hrmmm Entrecard
2008-03-14 21:52:00
So I discovered Entrecard lately… have you heard of it? It’s not really dog related in and of itself, but it does have a Pets category and I’ve already found some fun dog blogs! If you go and sign up you can make a little 125×125 image and uploaded to your account. And then you put ...

Snow or Sun?
2008-03-14 17:15:00
Well, I want sun for sure! I am tired of the cold! We have very wintery mountains here in Utah. Not only do people ski, they also snowboard. And on the mountains there are search and rescue dogs quite frequently. Many are trained in avalanche recovery, too. I am amazed by these dogs. ...
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Weather for Dog Sports
2008-03-14 17:10:00
Hrmph.. the weather isn’t looking very good for outdoor dog sports this weekend. I am so ready for spring! I love the spring! It’s cool enough for the dogs, and warm enough for us humans. This is a wee pic of Chase Me doing flyball in Vegas! Where it was warm! Tags: ...
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Homes for Dogs
2008-03-14 16:18:00
I love our house. We have a great little house… yes it is only 1300 square feet. How do we fit 7 big dogs in 1300 square feet, you may ask? LOL well we do an okay job. We have a basement that is our TV room with lots of dog beds (though usually ...
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DOCNA Agility This Weekend
2008-03-14 14:48:00
Well, I think I’m deciding to take Muffit with tomorrow to agility. It’s DOCNA, will be laid back, he’ll get some good exposure, and if he gets stressed I will call my husband to come and get him. I love this picture of Muffit and Tatum running in the back yard. It’s going to ...
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Should I bring Muffit to Agility
2008-03-13 15:53:00
Muffit has only been in our house now since February 1… what is that… 5 weeks? I think maybe I overestimated his adaptation abilities. Though he was fine at flyball practice, I could tell, just barely, that he was stressed for the next day or two after we got home. I really want to bring him ...
More About: Training , Agility

Always Snag a Training Opportunity
2008-03-12 16:24:00
I’m working from home today.. sitting on the couch upstairs, doing my thing.. and the Husband comes up from the basement and plops Tatum , and her toy, into the living room and closes the baby gate. The rest of the dogs are snoozing comfortably, but not our crazy Tatum Tot girl. Nope.. she starts whipping ...
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Flyball Practice
2008-03-11 23:02:00
Sunday Chase , Tatum , Muffit and Me went to flyball practice. It’s the first we’ve had since, probably, November of 2007. It was so nice to get out. It was warm enough for a T-Shirt, and it was fun to run around a bit! Chase did great, as per usual. I’m thinking that I think ...
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Bouncing Off the Wall - Flyball Box Training
2008-03-09 19:41:00
Okay so Chase and I went outside today to see about teaching him to bounce off the wall. This is how Touch n Go recommended box training.. After, of course, doing some jump training first. So out we go, I have him put his front feet on the wall and measure out where he should ...
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Angel and Tatum
2008-03-09 17:27:00
Is this the cutest picture or what? Okay maybe not in the whole entire world, but still I love it. Tatum loves to play. Angel loves to play too, but since she’s been getting older she’s been slowing down so she doesn’t run around like she used to. But she still likes to play ...
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His Nose is so Short!
2008-03-08 00:44:00
Look at this short nose! Okay okay.. I know, with five collies in the house right now, many dog noses look short to me. But Chase’s doesn’t look short to me anymore. Isn’t Muffit’s nose exceptionally short? Well I kinda think so. Not that that is a bad thing… I ...
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Settling Back Into Home
2008-03-06 01:19:00
Well, being home is nice. Believe you me. I do love trips, and sometimes one the way home I don’t want the trip to end.. but now that I am here at home on the couch with my regular pack, I am very happy to be home and to be relaxing. We made it home pretty ...
More About: Home , Training , Back , Levi , Chase

Back from the Flyball Seminar
2008-03-04 18:48:00
Oh my gosh. Did I say, in my last post, that I had a great time at the Flyball Seminar given by Touch n Go? Well, it was beyond great. The seminar was wonderful. The Team Members that gave the seminar were phenomenal. They were all friendly and supportive and very tactful. I ...
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Flyball Seminar is Fun!
2008-03-02 05:48:00
Today we had an awesome day at the flyball seminar. Touch n Go are great, they really know their stuff, and they are also very personable and easy to talk to and work with. They give us great advice and are very tactful. Even when they tell us our dogs are overweight! ...
More About: Seminar , Chase , Flyball , Tatum

At the Flyball Seminar
2008-03-01 04:12:00
I am at the flyball seminar! The puppy and green dog part was pretty good. A lot was basic puppy training that I already am familiar with, but it was good foundation information for new dogs and new green handlers, too. Tatum didn’t do very much because she is being pretty nervous. I pulled ...
More About: Seminar , Chase , Flyball

Touch n Go Flyball Seminar in Vegas!
2008-02-27 20:47:00
Well, we leave tomorrow! Yay! I am so excited. Chase is too.. it’s been too long since he’s done flyball. Too much snow on the ground around here. And Tatum.. well, she’s going to the Green Dog portion and hopefully she will have fun, too. She may be nervous for a while but ...
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Cancer or Calcification?
2008-02-26 03:20:00
I took Lucy in to Dr Hennemen today. I just love Dr. Hennemen. I feel very good energy from her, and she really knows what she is talking about. We are so lucky to have her in our little part of the country. So anyway Lucy does have a lot of striations (I hope that is the right word) in her lungs. More so than spots. It reminded me of Mars and all the alleged canals that people used to think were up there. But Dr. Hennemen was not convinced it’s cancer. But we are going to treat her like it’s cancer. She did say that it might be calcification. She also said it looked like one of Lucy’s ribs had been broken a long time ago. Goodness… dogs. Man, they can hide pain so well. I wonder if it was when we had our rollover all those years ago in the snow. That’s the only thing I can figure, since she’s never been on her own really, except the week we went to Maine and put her in boarding with Levi and Angel. Hrm. Anyway Lucy has lots of calcification...
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I Want to Bury my Head in the Sand
2008-02-25 02:26:00
I am just burned out with Rescue . Seriously. I don’t want to do it anymore. I want to stay home with my dogs and entirely ignore the overpopulation issue, all the tens of thousands of dogs that die every year because people don’t understand them, expect them to humans in suits, and abandon them. It’s ...
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Dog Wiki for Utah
2008-02-23 23:49:00
I love wikis. Wiki s fascinate me because everyone can update them. And that means less work for me! LOL. Well, that is, if anyone else participates. Which no one else has done yet, but hopefully in time others will begin to participate. So I’m getting the whole thing set up on my own. ...
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She?s not Dead Yet
2008-02-23 21:01:00
Just a quick update on Lucy . She is doing okay. She is pretty low energy, and I do think she is lower energy than she has been before. And the swelling in her legs comes and goes. I hope it doesn’t hurt her or make her uncomfortable. She and I have been talking ...
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Dog Address Labels
2008-02-23 20:11:00
I want some new return address labels.. the ones I have at work in my desk have my maiden name on them… so yeah, it’s been almost five years, maybe more, since I bought some. And I don’t know why, but I love return address labels. I like fancy ones with dog pictures and ...
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Clicking that Rear End
2008-02-22 16:08:00
In my continuing pursuit of finding a reliable, solid, positive way to clicker train the flyball box, Tatum is being my experimental dog. She is so smart. She is doing great with her mat. I’ve changed the criteria so now she has to lie down on the mat, as I want that to ...
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Flyball Seminar Coming Up!
2008-02-22 00:17:00
Woo Hoo I am so excited! I’ve been sleepy today but then I got my confirmation papers (email) for the Touch n Go Flyball Seminar in Last Vegas in.. in only a week! Three days. Well, Friday will be for Tatum, and Saturday and Sunday will be for Chase . Looks like our team, Thunder Paws ...

Beautiful Lucy
2008-02-21 04:20:00
Lucy is our beautiful smooth collie girl. She does seem to be slowing down… with her cancer diagnosis and all. But she got to chew on a Kong a lot today, and carry it around and guard it, and guarding is one of her favorite things. Though she doesn’t like it quite as ...
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Too Tired to Think
2008-02-20 00:19:00
It takes me a couple of days to recover from an agility trial. I have decided, no matter how much I don’t feel like it, I am going to start taking the boys jogging again. Levi did great on Sunday, he should have Q’d both runs and I got mad at the judge for ...
More About: Chase , Tired

Chase had an Awesome Day
2008-02-17 03:57:00
Chase is so much fun to run. When we work together, and he pays attention. Today was great. We did AKC agility. Our first run was Open Jumpers with Weaves. He did so well, he paid attention to me and turned and came when I wanted him too, and it was not an easy course. ...
More About: Awesome , Levi , Agility , Chase , Tatum

Good days and Bad days
2008-02-16 01:07:00
I guess I’ll be up and down for a while with this diagnosis of Lucy having cancer. I have managed not to think much about it since Wednesday… thinking about it now just makes me cringe. Wednesday was a bad day. I was really down all day after the vet appointment on Tuesday. Even ...
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Foster Dogs over the Years
2008-02-13 23:11:00
For the last few days I’ve been loading up my dog pictures from my old album backups and into Flickr. Flickr is very convenient and easy to use, and it helps me not use up lots of my server space. We have helped a lot of dogs. I am proud of what we ...
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Buying Dog Stuff
2008-02-13 20:31:00
I buy a lot of dog stuff online. In fact, more than I should. And because of it I’m a bit poor at the moment. And when I buy online I actually do worry about identity theft. I probably am not as careful as I should be… I really like that I ...
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Muffit is Better
2008-02-13 15:30:00
Well good news, after a couple of days on the new meds Muffit is much better already. His breathing sounds clear, no more snuffling and no more major green nasal discharge! Yay! He is eating well, and starting to play, too. Still a bit low on energy but that will come. I’ve started ...
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