May 17, 2012

What’s The Life Expectancy Of Your Dog?

Bernese Mountain Dog Puppy

I know it’s kind of a morbid thing to think about, but honestly before you decide on a dog breed it’s probably a good idea to investigate the average life expectancy of the breed. Just today I was talking to one of my friends about dogs and how long they usually live. I mentioned that [...]

Orange County Pet Expo 2008

Stetson on his walk

I just wanted to post a reminder that you can visit the Orange County Pet Expo at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, CA this weekend (April 11-13, 2008). I wrote a short article about the Pet Expo a couple months back. Here’s the link to that article I wrote last January: America’s Family [...]

Wow! Looks Like Pink The Piglet Will Stay With Dachshund Family

Pink Resting

I just got word from our friends at the Daily Doxie that KHTV in Little Rock has posted some new information on Pink the piglet and Tink the Dachshund Mom. Here’s the latest information: Pink With His Dachshund Sibling KHTV in Little Rock, Arkansas has two new pictures of and an update on Pink, the [...]

Questions About Crate Training

Monty the Standard Poodle

One of my friends just sent me an email to let me know she just got a new puppy and has started him on his crate training. Unfortunately she’s having some issues with the crate training. It seems that her puppy is having some separation anxiety when left alone. Here’s the question she sent me [...]

Interview A Guide Dog Puppy Raiser

Stetson and Me

If you’ve been reading through the service dog blogosphere then you’ve probably come across these Puppy Raiser interview questions in the past week. Last week I was reading through my list of service dog blogs in google reader and kept coming across this questionnaire put together by Erin. So to keep up with the other [...]

Too Cute: Dog Who Loves His Sheep

Australian Shepherd Mix And His Sheep

While following some of the back links from Pam’s Blog Carnival I came across an adorable photo of a dog and his sheep. One of the great things about this dog is he’s our favorite breed: the Australian Shepherd Mix. They actually have a little more information on this guy and happen to know that [...]

Canine Blog Carnival And Stetson’s Puppy Page

I just wanted to give everyone a quick update on some of the things we’ve been working on here at the Puppy In Training blog. First off I submitted one of my articles from this week to a blog carnival. Hopefully we’ll get some new visitors here in the next couple days. Second, I finally [...]

Oprah And The Puppy Mills

oprah and her goldens

Tomorrow, April 4th, 2008 the Oprah Winfrey Show is doing a segment on Puppy Mills. What I’ve heard is that the show will feature special correspondent Lisa Ling investigating puppy mills. Oprah’s dedicating this show to her late dog Sophie a Cocker Spaniel. The show must expose some of the horrible things going on at [...]

Does Your Dog Have Canine Respiratory Infection?

Sick Dog

Recently both my dogs caught a Canine Respiratory Infection (was this Kennel Cough again?). Stetson caught the cold first and about 5 days later Linus was showing similar symptoms. It seemed to me like it was just a common cold the same one I’d get as a kid playing with all my friends on the [...]

Puppy Adoption – Octavia The Shepherd Mix

If you are considering puppy adoption, I highly recommend visiting one of your local puppy/dog rescues. In past articles I’ve talked to you about the puppy/dog rescue, Cuddly Canines. I want to do my best to help place these puppies by profiling each puppy, litter of puppies, and dogs on this blog. ***Note this dog [...]