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With three cats and three dogs, I felt like I was getting up to let someone in or out every time I sat down. Finally, after months of my begging, Jesse put in not one but two dog doors. The first goes from the mudroom, where we confine the three dogs when we leave the […]

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 […]

The “Crazy Dog Lady” Technique

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As if the looks of disbelief (bordering on horror in most cases) when we tell our friends and family that we got a third dog (and that he’s huge) aren’t enough, now all my neighbors think I’m nuts. And it’s not because we have bad dogs who bark all the time and terrorize people […]

 
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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 […]

Pickles and Ty have developed a terrible habit of digging in the yard. Honestly, we don’t care that much because we’re just excited to have a yard, but we don’t want them to get used to breaking the rules.
So, we’re trying to smack down on the digging thing. The first step was to fill all […]

Two words for you:
garden hose.
I started to take Pickles and Ty for a walk, but when I got outside and was hit with what felt like a wall of unbelievable heat, we decided to hang out in the shady yard instead. I didn’t want to miss out on their daily workout, so I channeled my […]