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Easter Bunnies

I'm sure that I'm preaching to the choir but I wanted to make sure that I addressed this in the blog. It is a very common theme for parents to buy their children bunnies, ducklings, or chicks as a way to celebrate the Easter holiday. If the family has thoroughly...

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Old Doesn't Necessarily Mean Mature

A few weeks ago I mentioned that my next investment would be child locks. Well, I bought the locks but haven't put them on yet and was certainly punished for my procrastination tonight. I was working on some emails for students when I hear this *THMP* noise from the...

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Living With Reactive Dogs–home improvements

As many of you know, I've been fighting an up hill battle in my house of curbing fence fighting/reactive behavior from all three dogs. Shayne and Rio, after lots of hard work, are now easily called off of the undesirable behavior. They still choose to partake in said...

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We're in the paper!

Last week I posted a link to the online version of the newspaper article that Rio and I were featured in (Click here for that article). Well I was finally able to get a copy of the newspaper copy of the article and was surprised to see a REALLY cute photo of Rio and...

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The Kitchen Sink

Lots of information and tidbits in today's post. First, Rio's got 12 weaves!! It didn't take but 3 approximations before it clicked and he understood his job for the 12 poles. We started with a few repetitions of the two sets of six poles being about 6ft apart and he...

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Nearly Wordless Wednesday–Rio Edition

Just wanted to thank everyone for the emails and comments of support about yesterday's blog. It's really quite appreciated! Now, on to a set of photos for Wordless Wednesday that I hope you all love. Next Wordless Wednesday will be devoted to Shayne but for today......

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Totally Flabergasted…

I should have blogged yesterday but some crazy events occurred during the weekend and I was simply too bothered by them to be able to sit down and write. I've been replaying the events in my head and been contemplating whether or not to blog about it. A part of me...

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My dogs are nuts…

I had full intentions on writing a blog post this morning that was meaningful, insightful, a tad bit funny, and really awesome. Shayne and Rio have decided that is not an option. They've been quite literally running circles around the house for 2 hours... I just...

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My newest investment

My new investment isn't a big one but it is an important one in this house. I'm investing in child locks for my cupboards. Those little $5 items used to keep small children out of the chemical (or adult beverage) cabinets are going to be used to keep my freak of...

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Learning is Hard Sometimes

Learning a new mechanical skill is hard and can be an incredibly humbling experience. I really think ALL trainers should break out of their box and take a class where they don't already have most/all of the skills (perhaps some of the people who inspired yesterday's...

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