Dogs News and Curiosities

Let them speak for us

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It is one of the most amazing stories I’ve read about a dog lover and his four legged friends, Mr. Ken Kemper made sure that his dogs were well taken care of even after his death. Read more here

We have created like a doggie family among our group of friends. We have our own Dali, and then is Gigi’s and Jason’s Miel, and also Mary’s Bella… Now we want to welcome Galo to our puppy family. He resides in Argentina with Miryam since 12/24/07 and is as cute as you can imagine. Galo is short for Garcia Lorca in honor of the great Spaniard artist Federico Garcia Lorca.

Galo is a West Highland White Terrier born on 11/11/07 and who has won everybody’s love by now.

Dali is almost 9 months old and we haven’t been very “trainingful” (if that is a word). It is not his fault, we know… So far he has learned to kiss instead of bite on one’s fingers and he might also sit if you’re about to feed him a treat (and that is thanks to Gigi and Miel). He doesn’t even “go” outside yet… and we aren’t sure if he is ever going to do it… I stumbled upon (literally because we are using this cool tool Stumble Upon to find interesting websites) this very useful site that tips us, dog owners, on easy tricks to teach to our friends… so now it is up to us to shake our laziness and start training… Check it out here

We’ve had Dali for about six months now and so far the only thing we can’t stand is him nipping on anything all the time… yes! all-the-ti-me. Call it the carpet, his blanket, his bed, his toys, my hands, his other dad’s hands, the couch… and so on… After watching and episode on T.V. of “The Dog Whisperer” where this guy teaches how to make your puppy bite on your fist so he’ll find himself biting into something not so pleasant we starting following this pattern and it worked; Dali has slowed down on this bad habit… Today I run into this webpage that offers very useful training tips to manage and reduce these habits… Check them out, they are really good!

It is well known that chocolate and dogs don’t go well together, especially for our four legged friends, since it is highly poisonous for them to ingest cocoa. There are also several factors that can poison your dogs, and many of them aren’t even suspected to be that bad for them.

I found this list of dangers and thought it could help us all to keep our pup away from them.

There is also a really informative post in a blog that I find very interesting. Check it out

When we just got Dali we were all about bathing him and dressing him up and making him look his best and this and that. So one day after having bathed him I was kissing and hugging him and I noticed a not so pleasant smell coming from one of his ears and it caught my attention because I’ve read somewhere out there that dogs’ ears should not smell at all and boy was a right, we took him to the vet and sure enough he had an ear infection caused by water that got stuck in his ears, thank God with some medicine the infection was gone and now every time we give him a bath (as you can see in one of our video posts) we apply the solution the good vet recommended and the problem has been gone ever since. From then on we still are all about making him look good, smell and dress his best but now we do it consciously and think of his health and wellness before all.

Find more information about ear infections here 

I found this great article from the Southern Hope Humane Society that provides a list of items that you need to check before having a dog.

Please check this list sincerely before picking up a dog.

Read more at the Don’t Get a Dog Campaign site and at The Southern Hope Humane Society website.

And here is Dali attacking is own bed while we both are at the computers… I guess he was bored…

Here is just a cute video I wanted to share. See it at Dali gone wild