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Best "play dead" ever. We have to add this to the list!

Every time we try to get Pickles to shake, she just bites us. Sigh.
 

I met a dog at the airport who could sneeze on cue. It was adorable… This is not the same dog. Does she growl at him at the […]

Because yes, now that we can film everything that happens all day we do, here is Pickles with her limited repertoire tricks. See how she does almost everything with hand signals? That’s all me, baby. I rock at training my dog. Just her, though. The other two couldn’t care less about rolling over or even […]

Well, if this isn’t irony, I don’t know what is. I came home from being gone maybe an hour, and found the house in utter disarray.
Now, before I get into the details, it’s important to point out that with as well as things have been going since Bark Busters came, we’ve started leaving the dogs […]

I can’t even get Ty to sit without beating him over the head with a ham sandwich. How did they teach this cat to do all this stuff?

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Especially in a multi-pet-species household, the aloof cat often gets overlooked when it comes to playtime. But in an increasingly traffic-heavy world where more and more cats are being confined to the great indoors at all times, play is critical to your cat’s health.
I loved this article from PetStyle.com, which offers some specific ideas for […]

Things have been crazy around my house lately, as I’m sure you’ve guessed based on my posts from the month of December, but the madness is finally under control. Tomorrow is one month from our Bark Busters appointment, and the dogs have done almost a complete 180.
When David the Dog guy came, we put Pickles […]

The dogs are now going at it almost every day, with Murphy instigating every time, and I can’t take it anymore! We called Bark Busters about 2 weeks ago and are in the midst of checking references for our local BarkBusters pro, but after this morning, I don’t even care anymore. I need help NOW.
It’s […]

Ever since we got back from our trip to Florida, Murphy, sweet-natured, submissive Murphy, has been, for lack of a better term, a total jerk. I don’t know if it’s the stress of our traveling a lot in November, if we’re doing something to make him aggressive, or if he’s just going through some adolescent […]

I don’t know where Julius picked up this habit, but he seems to be totally hooked on Q-Tips. And I don’t mean just any generic cotton swab, though I’m sure he’d love those, too, but the real Q-Tips, which cost twice as much as the other brands. Granted it’s a minor expense, but when Julius […]

Pickles just waltzed up to me with a big, empty Ziploc bag. Not a big deal, except that the bag previously contained bones from the fried chicken I ate for dinner. A speedy investigation revealed that Ty opened the trashcan, removed the bag of bones, ate them, and gave Pickles the bag to lick.
Enter panic! […]