Dog Product Review: Kong Squeaker

During my recent tour of the KONG headquarters and factory in Golden, Colorado, our friends there gave me a KONG Squeaker, which is essentially a classic KONG made

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Wildfire Week: Indian Gulch Fire

Last week was a doozy, with a wildfire burning just miles away. I posted real-time updates via Twitter and on our Champion of My Heart Facebook Fan Page,

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Wordless Wednesday: The Real Story

As part of our dog product review of the KONG Braidz Monkey, I asked for interpretations of Lilly’s body position in one of the photos. The answer appeared

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Dog Fear Isn’t Funny or Cute

Many thanks to Kevin Meyers for writing an open letter to Good Morning America, called Dogs Don’t Do Guilt, after the show featured the “guilty dog” from the

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In the News: Never Shock a Puppy

Thanks to Kim Sporrer, media maven at Humane Society of Boulder Valley, a few newspapers have mentioned Never Shock a Puppy in articles about the humane society’s No-Choke

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Feeding Dogs in an Emergency Situation

The situation in Japan after the earthquake, tsunami, and resulting nuclear issues woke me up to how unprepared I am to feed the dogs in a LONG-term emergency

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5 Ways a Fearful Dog Improves Your Life

I sometimes wonder if I’d ever deliberately adopt a truly fearful dog again. Truth? I didn’t know what I was getting myself into with Lilly. Still, I cannot

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Wordless Wednesday: Third Time is the Charm

Until the winds reached gale force, I worked outside Saturday on the blog and other things so that I will have more time this week for paying clients

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Fearful Dogs and Human Emotion

We’ve long established that Lilly, our canine heroine, responds to every shift around her. That’s true at home. It’s true when we’re out in public. It’s true in

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Dog Product Review: Kong Braidz (Monkey)

This is the first of three products reviews Champion of My Heart plans to post about the various KONG products we received during a recent tour of the

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