Our Three-Month Anniversary

nobody@vox.com(taz) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:09:54 +0300

Huh. It definitely seems longer than three months. Our progress on everything has been great, and we have almost no problems at all... she's happy, healthy, funny, fun, affectionate, playful, sweet, loving, wonderful. The only issue that we nee...

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You realize you've become the crazy dog lady when...

nobody@vox.com(taz) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:45:29 +0300

To start with the most obvious: your dog has a blog You decide you need to go shopping for a toy box, for the dog. You've had your dog's teeth cleaned, but not your own Your dog wears more jewelry than you do You go on a romantic date with your ...

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GoogleDog?

nobody@vox.com(taz) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:14:28 +0300

I really love Google. I love the search engine, I love my Gmail, I love Google Notebook, and now I love Google Calendar. These last couple of weeks I've realized that I need more than the Vet booklet to keep track of things I want or need to rem...

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Made me LOL

nobody@vox.com(taz) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:27:39 +0300

Okay, The Poodle (and dog) blog made me laugh today, with Jan's "Real Classified Ads from Real Papers" entry: For Sale -- Eight puppies from a German Shepperd and an Alaskan Hussy. FREE YORKSHIRE TERRIER. 8 years old. Hateful little bastard. Bi...

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thedogfoodproject.com

nobody@vox.com(taz) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:55:55 +0300

This is a great site for drilling down to information about ingredients in commercial dog foods - what to look for, what to avoid, how to identify better products. But what is most useful for me is this "short list" of beneficial food items that ...

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Pet owners and potential owners: Protect yourself from scams!

nobody@vox.com(taz) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:35:12 +0300

If you ever lose your pet, beware of those who would try to take advantage of your pain and distress to extort money from you. Read this list of lost pet scams, and perhaps do some thinking now about what kind of information you might hold back a...

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Speaking of dog communication...

nobody@vox.com(taz) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:02:53 +0300

I read a very interesting article in Dog Star Daily that argues against training your dog not to growl. In a nutshell, the author's theory is that dogs have a variety of ways to warn of or broadcast fighting/biting intentions and that these signal...

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Woof?

nobody@vox.com(taz) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:32:19 +0300

Have I mentioned that in the first weeks that we had Sky, we weren't sure she could bark, or make any noise at all, really? This is a very quiet dog. Soon enough we learned that she did have that functionality, but it was only employed in the rare...

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Sky slays monsters... and fuzzy bunnies.

nobody@vox.com(taz) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:47:10 +0300

Two things of significance happened this morning. The first was a cockroach the size of a Cadillac strolling through our kitchen... at which point I screamed and poked ineffectually at it with a mop and it skittered off somewhere under the fridge...

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White dog is white again: The bath thang.

nobody@vox.com(taz) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:05:56 +0300

Well, kids, our mission was a success. Insanely hydrophobic, greyish dog is all sparkle white and silk fluffy this morning. Yes, we did it. We. Bathed. The. Dog. And all it took was a tub, a hand-held shower head, two people, five towels (two f...

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