Fading Xanax: Spoke Too Soon

Lilly has been off the xanax for a month now. While at first report, she showed no ill effects, drug withdrawal, or behavior problems. Things may have changed

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On the Town with GoPetFriendly.com

We first met our previously online-only friends from GoPetFriendly.com (pet travel, made easy) on a hike last fall, when they visited Colorado before BlogPaws West. Thanks to an

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Wordless Wednesday: Coworker

Just a few recent photos of Lilly as seen from my desk. There is something special about writers + border collies. Truly.

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Lilly Herding Lesson #2, What Didn’t Go Well

Yesterday, I reported on What Went Well in Lilly’s second herding lesson. Here is a recap of what didn’t go so well.\

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Lilly Herding Lesson #2, What Went Well

Last Thursday, Lilly and I hauled ourselves out to Valdemar Farm for our second official herding lesson. This I know … I’m probably the worst goatherd on the

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Dogs on Drugs: Fading Xanax

On the advice of our behaviorist from Colorado State’s veterinary school, Lilly has taken both chlomipramine and xanax/alprazolam twice a day, every day, since summer 2008. We didn’t

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Herding Insights

Over the last couple of weeks, I had the chance to glean insights about Lilly’s recent herding lesson where (at least in my mind) things didn’t go so

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Lilly Herding Lesson #1, The Poll

Now that you’ve seen all the videos, read my accounts of other herding lesson events, and considered my ideas on possible causes of Lilly’s relatively poor performance in

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Lilly Herding Lesson #1, Reflections

Let’s resume our discussion of Lilly’s herding lesson with some reflections on the overall experience. As promised, I’ll also clue you into to a couple of details that

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Remedial Treibball

We’re suffering a long, cold, windy start to the year here at Chez Champion of My Heart. Thanks to strategies we learned at a recent American Treibball Association

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