Tag Archives: Pets
The Dog Project – Working a puppy in to the pack
The key to working a new dog in to your pack is to 1) make a controlled introduction, and 2) not over-manage the situation. Let the dogs find their own dynamic. But also 3) be on the lookout for ahole type behavior and correct it. (If you’ve done #1 right, this isn’t usually such a [...]
“Ask Ernie” Call For Questions
[Ernie is my 5 year old bouvier des flandres. As a special surprise for my birthday, he has agreed to take some blogging burden off of my shoulders and answer some reader questions. -Joe] Hi everyone! I’d like Joe to have a fun birthday weekend, put the laptop down and play catch with me for [...]
I’m huge in Malaysia
Apparently they think chucking dogs off a bridge is as funny as I do. You Might Also Like…The Dog Project – Working a puppy in to the packBennie and the Lilly Family, Part 1. The Dog Project
Part 3- Bennie’s Big Secret
My last post took us through the first couple of weeks worth of having Bennie in our lives. This final post contains the big secret that I learned about Bennie, which is that he was 110% obedience trained when I rescued him. How do I know that, you ask? Simple. We put a Dogtra on [...]
Part 2 – Bennie comes Home
Before we got Bennie to the house we decided it’d be a good idea to take him to The Soggy Dog, our neighborhood “do it yourself” dog wash. After all, he smelled like months of his own urine and very fresh ass juice from the anal gland expression. We got him really wet and started [...]
Bennie and the Lilly Family, Part 1.
Turns out that my interview snippet from the Associated Press has gotten around the block quite a bit. Stephanie’s aunt called us from Maryland yesterday wondering if it was the same Joe Lilly in Las Vegas that she saw on MSNBC. Although this is pretty cool, I want to clarify my “throw him off a [...]