When and how to question your vet When my Dane Tess was a maybe ten months old, I noticed her licking her flank a little too much. I checked and there was a very small red patch on the skin of her belly,...
The scandal of marketing purebred dogs (II) I wrote this post just a couple of weeks before our house fire. I had no idea that the events of the next month would remove me from dogdom for an entire year. So I'm...
Breeder Etiquette I promised a breeder etiquette post weeks ago, but I have been putting it off because I didn't want to get people mad at me. But I can't get it out of my head,...
How to kill a shelter dog How to Kill a Shelter Dog It’s really simple: Buy from an irresponsible breeder. I need you to hear this: If you buy from an irresponsible breeder, you are...
How to get a puppy from us (or another good breeder) I have found that a lot of people who would make excellent homes for puppies end up with puppies who are far less than ideal for them (or far less than well-bred) because...
Breeding with chilled semen Breeders have been sending mysterious packages across the country for years, but if they weren't using a vet at both ends of the deal they had to be very look-innocently-at-the-ceiling...
Call your breeder! I was tooling around the Interwebs reading general dog blogs (not the savvy breeder blogs) today and saw the following questions: 1) My puppy just arrived from his...
Today is the first day in the last three weeks that I have not been forced to be at a dead run for 20 hours out of the 24. I have a short document I have to edit before 4 pm but otherwise my goal for the day is to not actually get out of pajamas all day long. If anyone sees me in a bra or wearing non-elastic-waist pants, smack me and send me home again.
Gotta love “lazy” days. To make it perfect though, you need to have breakfast for supper – bacon & eggs, pancakes… not just for breakfast anymore!