An almost bunny incident

I let the paws out this morning and walked out with them.  I noticed they were immediately focused on something in the pool so I walked over and noticed a little tiny bunny - IN MY POOL.  The paws were chomping at the bit to get to little mister bunny so I had to act [...]

What a difference

I’ve been frustrated walking Chocolate Dog for months now, as you may have read in previous posts.  We’ve made good progress but he’s still a wild beast, no matter what.  So, last night at Target, I broke down, after another frustrating walk, and bought a gentle leader.
I tried it out this evening on him and [...]

No more bed for the Paws

We’ve been training the paws on different things since Obi-Wan returned.  One of the biggest items we’ve tackled is kicking the paws out of the bed and getting them to learn to sleep on the floor on their dog beds.  They are giant beasts (190 pounds combined of pure puppy goodness) and although we have [...]

Adventures of a naughty dog

So I made a new mac and cheese recipe from the local paper last night to accompany some grilled pork chops for dinner and it turned out really good.   Obi-Wan and I really enjoyed it and I had a lot leftover b/c I had used a 1/2 box of pasta to make it.  I decided [...]

Final note to Daddy from the Paws

Dear Daddy:
Mommy informs us that you will be coming home on Friday.  We are very excited about this!  We’ve missed you, although we haven’t missed you being gone in the bed.  It’s given us more room to stretch our paws out next to Mommy.  I’m not sure what’s going to happen when you come home [...]

Reintegration conversation

Obi-Wan and I briefly spoke this afternoon before he was heading off to bed and we talked about him coming home.  I asked him if he felt weird about leaving Iraq and he answered “to be honest, yes.”  He’s ready to get out of dodge, believe me, but he will miss the friends and co-workers [...]

Dogs and robots

Interesting article here about how dogs and robots were fairly even when it comes to cheering up nursing home patients.  While that may be true, I’ll take my paws and their puppy kisses and beating hearts any day of the week. 

What to blog about?

I’ve been suffering writer’s block where the blog is concerned lately.  Just nothing inspiring me to write.  Things are kind of meandering along for me right now.  Obi-Wan will be home in approximately 5 weeks (not that I’m counting). 
Body for Life stuff is going okay I think.  No noticeable differences in the mirror [...]

Update on puppy training

Well the paws are starting to learn some things … finally.  Saturday I had a great training session with my dog trainer and the paws.  We spent most of the hour working on their greeting guests at the door behavior, which is pretty appalling.  Yellow Dog is a hiney-biter and a jumper.  Chocolate Dog is [...]

Reforming puppies

Yesterday, I embarked on a new task of training my wild beasts.  They’ve both been through basic obedience so they are not wholly uncontrollable.  I need to work on Yellow Dog’s bad behavior of jumping all over guests when they first enter our house.  She also has a penchance for obnoxious barking so we’re going to [...]