June 2008 Issue
Summertime. WhooHooo it is finally here! Temperatures are heading up and over 70, 80, 90 or even 100 degrees in some parts of our great country. We are happy about that and so are our dogs.  Fetch the rest of the story >

May 2008 Issue
You wake up because the sun is in your face and the birds are chirping like mad.  It is Spring! The flowers are blooming, the bees buzzing and the sun is out.  Yippee!  You stretch and decide it’s time for a cup of coffee; but first a bathroom break (drank a lot of water last night).  You grab the cup of coffee and head over to the window to check if your roses are blooming yet but ack..gag…you can’t quite get there.  Okay, you think, I will go outside and visit with my neighbor – I see she’s out this morning working in her garden. So you head in the other direction towards the French doors; coffee on the patio would be great.  Ack…gag…cough, you are yanked backwards; you sigh a very long sigh.  The fifteen foot chain you are on just won’t allow that much movement.  This is useless, you cry out as you hang your head, may as well skip the coffee and head back to bed.  Fetch the rest of this story >

April 2008 Issue
I just finished reading an editorial from the April 2008 issue of the Whole Dog Journal called “ID Required: No Dog Should Be Without This Vital Equipment” by Nancy Kerns.  It concerns what happens when our canine or feline friends “get lost” and it bears discussing because it is of personal importance to me as a dog “owner” and should be to you too.  Fetch the rest of this story >