Welcome to My Everything Dog Related Blog Site

Thank you for visiting my site on everything dog related.  I’m going to try and cover everything I can think of that relates to dogs here, so it will be a long ongoing process.  My obsession is dogs and yet if I live to be 100, I’ll never know everything I would like to know about them.  I’m always learning.  My hope is that you will also learn something about dogs from this blog site.

Sometimes I believe dogs are guardian angels, sent here to protect and accompany us.  I would like to devote a section of this blog to hero dogs and those who have made an important impact on the lives of their humans.  Sometimes it’s just plain uncanny how a dog will be in the right place at the right time to help someone in distress.  Or how they seem to sense that something is going to happen, such as someone about to experience a seizure or heart attack.  We could look at this as just another mystery of nature.  But I like to think everything happens for a purpose.  We just don’t know why or how it happens.

There are a lot of health concerns associated with dogs, which I’d like to delve into here also.  Being a professional dog groomer, I see a lot of skin and ear problems in dogs, as well as growths, fatty tumors, etc. that seem to go along with being a dog.  But what causes these things?  Is there any way to prevent them?  I am not a veterinarian and will not be giving any veterinary advice, but I will share with you the information I have found from other sites and veterinarians themselves.  I think it is our duty to protect the health of our dogs as best we can since they have no say in the matter themselves.

I would like to cover some grooming issues as well as some training issues.  Our animal shelters are overcrowded with unwanted dogs and cats.  Many groups are working toward a “no more homeless” nation and I would like to promote those groups here as well.  One reason there are so many throw away dogs in our society is because owners don’t know how to socialize and train their dogs.  They don’t seem to understand the necessity of exercise in reducing a dog’s negative behavior.  I am hoping this will be a large part of my site – giving some suggestions for training, playing games with your dog, walking for exercise and so much more to prevent the unwanted behavior that can accompany lack of these simple basic things.

Behavior issues are fascinating to me and challenging.  There is always a reason behind why a dog acts the way it does, and a lot of times it can be found in the human companion of the dog.  Then again, a lot of times it will never be discovered.  It could be related to something that happened to the dog as a young puppy and you may have adopted your dog at an older age so you would have no idea what kind of early life this dog led.  That makes it a little more difficult to get to the bottom of the behavior.  But there are still certain things you can do to help your dog overcome negative behavior.

I would like to also touch on the issue of aggressive dogs – how do they get to be this way, can they be rehabilitated, are there certain breeds more prone to aggression, how can we prevent dog bites and fights?

Like I already said, dogs are my obsession, my passion.

They devote their lives to us.  I would like to devote my everything dog blog to them.  Thank you again for letting me share my passion with you.