Adventures with Barnacle Bill

Despite Tom’s clever toenail cast made from superglue and paper towel, Ginko is still suffering from his badly broken toenail from last week. It’s snapped about halfway up

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Nap Negotiations

Despite the continuing onslaught of germs, I’m actually up and working this morning on a relatively normal schedule since I have an interview at 9:30 am for my

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Missive from Germ Girl

So, the germs are still hanging on, which means I’m working as much as I can muster, then sleeping. Sometimes that means 3 hours up, 1 hour down.

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On Dirty Windows and Protecting Mommy

After I shot the photos from yesterday’s post, I sat in the sun myself. Suddenly, Lilly came to my defense from what appears to her as bugs crawling

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Mirrored Motion (Dogs at Peace)

In our continuing efforts to notice dog language based on what we learned from Canine Body Language: A Photographic Guide by Brenda Aloff, I shot these two photos

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Good Veterinary Partnerships?

I need your help! I’m doing research on good pet care partnerships. I know it’s different for everyone, but I should be able to distill some key characteristics

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Half-Dog with Toy

Keeping with yoga poses named for things our dogs do, here is Ginko showing the classic Half Dog (with toy). I think he does this to stretch both

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Canine Body Language

So, I went through Canine Body Language: A Photographic Guide by Brenda Aloff a second time. Much of the info I already knew, but here are a handful of things

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Vaccination Decision

In general, I follow the American Animal Hospital Association’s Canine Vaccine Guidelines. That means, I only vaccinate my adult dogs every 3 years (not every year). Since it’s

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Parlez-Vous Dog-lais?

I found a copy of Canine Body Language: A Photographic Guide by Brenda Aloff at my local library and checked it out, based on Dog-Geek and KB‘s recommendations,

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