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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 […]

Every time we go to the dog park, the other pet moms and dads are blown away by how friendly, nonaggressive, and well socialized Pickles, Ty, and Murphy are. “They listen to you so well!” “They’re so big, but they’re so calm!” “How do you make them listen like that?”
The answer? I expect them to […]

So I leave the living room to check my e-mail while waiting for the dryer to finish, and when I come back not only has Ty turned the TV on, but he’s navigated to Animal Planet.
With his butt.
By lying on the remote.
And he was actually staring at the TV like he was watching the safari […]

We recently got Pickles and Ty a ChuckIt! toy, and it’s the best/worst thing we’ve done for them. On the positive side, they’ve all but completely stopped digging in the yard since we started playing fetch with them every morning with the ChuckIt!. On the negative side, Pickles has become a total freak about tennis […]