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It has been many months and I've thought about this many times. I know the forum is incredibly inactive, but he belongs here. Auggie was diagnosed with congestive heart failure four days after turning 10 years old. We had our last Christmas together, and I knew. Auggie loved Christmas. We had...

Getting ready to hunt... Auggie is like I AM 100% FOCUSED LET'S DO THIS THING Georgie found the easy one I set right by the deck. Auggie ran straight past it to grab one in the yard. And then off into the rest of the yard for another. Georgie is very methodical, snagging the...

We started at my house, in front of my tree. My baseboard is actually not installed yet, I just set it there... hence the gap. Yeah... Oh look Peppy is happy. Perfect Auggie first. I really need to teach my dogs how to smile on cue. Perfection. Best Auggie...

I already posted in the SS thread about this but Tortilla did an AMAZING job as our SS. Everything is perfect and spot on for all the dogs, which is especially a surprise with Pepper, who is not really much for toys or playing, but absolutely loves her gift-toy so much it really had me tearing...

These were actually taken a few weeks ago but I only just now got around to editing them. One of my favorite things about my dogs is how snowflakes fall on their fur... so... yeah. And somehow Pepper became the star of this photo session. Normally she is hiding in the background or directly...

I had no idea this photo was being taken until long after the fact. It has not been a very good year for us in agility. In an entire year of trialing, Payton has only gotten three Qs. Two are in Novice FAST so they don't even really count. One Open JWW Q. So many near misses in JWW...

Auggie turned 9 on Saturday. I'm not sure how it happened. I somehow forgot it was his birthday when I entered the puppies. Had I been thinking, I would have entered him too, just for fun to run on his birthday. But the trial was closed by the time I realized it was his birthday. No way...

Just a week late! The photographer still hasn't uploaded any of the photos from the contest at the trial, so these are the ones I took this morning at my house with my pumpkins and all the leaves that I then proceeded to mulch and bag as soon as I was done. Auggie first of course...

My friend's wedding is this weekend and I'm having trouble deciding what to wear. I thought I knew what I was going to wear - but when I pulled it out to try on, it's really more of a short summer-y sundress than a "fall wedding" dress. So I went shopping last night and picked a few things...

So my old PureFlows, which were retired from actual running and became my agility/gym shoes, are really just about done for anything but weight lifting. My current PureFlows still have plenty of miles left on them so I'm not ready to claim those as my agility shoes... and in fact have recently...

My Peppy-drizzle turned SIX years old today! Holy wow! She's a for real big girl now. In one more year I can actually start calling her "old lady." Middle-child got her VERY OWN trip to the pet store so we could try to pick out a toy. Pepper isn't hugely into toys anyway so I wasn't sure...

So a few weeks ago I had free bucks to spend at Old Navy. My plan was to buy yet another sports bra, but I discovered they've CHANGED their sports bras. WHAT. What am I supposed to buy now?? So I found these hats back in the kid's department. So that's what I bought. I don't know why...

I know we have some people of different ethnic backgrounds on here so I'm wondering if anybody can tell me about these. Arepas are Venezuelan. Like a sandwich pocket although that's a terrible way to put it. They appear to be made with white corn flour rather than just straight masa, which...

I bought Payton some steak to use for training. I used some leftover steak the other night and it was cooked (because, you know, it was leftover.) This, of course, is just raw since I bought it fresh from the grocery. Should I bother to sear it, or should I just slice it up and use it raw...

MASSIVELY LONG CONFESSIONS OF A DOG TRAINER FOLLOW. This week while doing a lot of reading and working and thinking, I had a light bulb moment. I'm not even sure how I stumbled across it, if I just happened to Google the right thing and hit on the answer, or what. I don't think Payton's...

My little baby dog is no longer little, nor a baby. But he is still a dog. That's about it. Today he turned three years old. The ideal would have been a nice long hike, just the two of us, and then a swim in the lake, but being Illinois is May, it's currently about 43 degrees outside and...

I realize it's like two weeks late. First of all I had a horrible migraine that day - not the worst of my life, but the second worst of my life. I was heavily medicated and did pretty much nothing all day long. I forgot my Easter stuff at my house (silly me though last year "surely by next...

Friday I had a short run on my calendar, so I decided to take P with me. I thought about the park but I was afraid too many people with dogs would be there. Instead we went to the woods. There's a bike trail there, nice and paved, so we hiked through the woods to the bike trail and then went...

I'm trying to get all my existing prints up and listed so I can clear out my inventory. The 8x10s are all listed (as are print-on-demand options, so if you see anything you want, I'll go print it for you!) but there's a huge amount of 5x7s to list! Check out what's already listed here...

These were all taken by the great photographers who work this show. It's a good deal to buy the entire show's worth of photos, especially when you have multiple dogs. The result is I have about 500 photos of everybody just from this one weekend. Here's the best: Auggie first, you may...