Dog Training Update: Teaching Lilly to Look “Guilty”

Remember my rant about the viral “guilty dog” video? Well, I promised then to try and teach Lilly to look “guilty” without feeling bad about it, including a

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Dog Training Update: Summertime Fear Flare-Up

In summers past, I lamented the resurgence of Lilly’s inexplicable fear flare-ups. It happens only in the summer and only in the evening. Trust me, we’ve run through

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Trouble Round the Bend: Off-Leash Dogs

Over the Independence Day Weekend, Lilly and I squeezed in some girl time for a hike. No trouble with mountain bikes on the hike-only day, but we did

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Dog Training Update: Fearful Dog Freakout

As I mentioned in Tuesday’s report about our recent hike with the girls from Cowgirl by Proxy, Lilly suffered a major fearful dog freakout on our short hike.

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Guest Post: My Best Fearful Dog Advice

After more than four years blogging about real life with a fearful dog, I’ve learned a lot and made oodles of mistakes. When Caring 4 Creatures, a rescue

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Dog Health: Spider Bite Recheck #3

Friday, Lilly had a rough day for no particular reason I could find. But, when it came time for her to load up for her third (and we

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Dog Health: Spider Bite Recheck #2

Think Lilly is out of the woods on this crazy spider bite? Alas, think again. Monday, Tom helped me take BOTH dogs to the veterinary hospital. Ginko for

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Dog Health: Spider Bite Recheck

Tuesday morning we awoke to a debate between me and Tom over the size of Lilly’s spider bite lump. I said it was bigger, maybe 10%. Tom said

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Dog Health: Spider Bite Treatment

So, we now knew that Lilly suffered a spider bite and ensuing infection. But, we’ll never know what kind of spider or where or how it happened, but

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Dog Health: Spider Bite

Yesterday, we continued the story of this mysterious mass I found on Lilly’s neck while awaiting a routine veterinary exam. Today, let’s move on with the diagnosis of

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