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Are You Ready For Earth Hour?

March 27, 2010 by Colby

Earlier this week we celebrated National Puppy Day in hopes of bringing awareness about the thousands of puppies in shelters needing a home. Today we were checking out the Raise A Green Dog blog and found their article We Are Ready For Earth Hour.  So what is Earth Hour?  Its’ a time (1 hour to [...]

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How To Donate Food To Animal Rescues For Free

March 26, 2010 by Colby
animal rescue site

“Today, you have given the value of .6 bowls of food to rescued animals.” That was the message I just received for clicking on a link on the Animal Rescue Site. “You have just donated another 10 pieces of free kibble!” That was the message I received for clicking on a link at the FreeKibbleKat [...]

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Puppy In Training Timeline Part 4

March 25, 2010 by Colby

The Puppy In Training Timeline is a series of articles chronicling my life with dogs and puppies.  Basically it’s the long version of my “About Me” page and helps to show the influences in my life that led to where I am today with my dogs, puppies, and my writings on the Puppy In Training [...]

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Good Dogs For Kids

March 24, 2010 by Colby

Over the last few years I’ve had the chance to interact with many different dog breeds and have found there are many different breeds that I would consider good dogs for kids.  In fact, a couple years ago I was so interested in dogs good with children I wrote a two part article about the [...]

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Today Is National Puppy Day!

March 23, 2010 by Colby

As usual I was browsing through Google Reader and learned that today, March 23rd is National Puppy Day! Here I am writing to a site about puppy training and little did I know that there was an entire day dedicated to my cause. Here’s what National Puppy Day is all about: Right now there are [...]

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Puppy Training

March 22, 2010 by Colby

When we first started writing to the Puppy In Training website our main focus was to chronicle the journey of my guide dog puppy, Stetson and share all of our experiences in puppy training and raising a guide dog. A couple months after Stetson started his formal guide dog training we were asked to raise [...]

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My Next Dog Car? The Dog Friendly Honda Element?

March 16, 2010 by Colby

I’ve been talking about getting a new dog car for what seems like forever (over two years anyways).  A few months back I went to the Los Angeles Auto Show and came away with a few new ideas for a dog car, but didn’t actually pull the trigger on purchasing a new car.  So I [...]

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Little Pink Pup

March 10, 2010 by Colby

I recently received an email from Johanna Kerby the author of The Pink Puppy and owner of Pink the Pig and Tink the Dachshund mom.  Johanna has recently put together her own website with all the latest updates about herself, her family, Tink, Pink, and all the other animals on her farm.  Check out her [...]

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What Are Dog Ear Infection Symptoms?

March 4, 2010 by Colby

I have two dogs with floppy ears (if I include Derby, three) and early on I learned the answer to the question: What Are Dog Ear Infection Symptoms? Only a few months after I was born my parents got a pure bred Golden Retriever, named Kiko.  I wrote a little bit about her in my [...]

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Puppy In Training Timeline Part 3

March 2, 2010 by Colby

The Puppy In Training Timeline is a series of articles chronicling my life with dogs and puppies.  Basically it’s the long version of my “About Me” page and helps to show the influences in my life that led to where I am today with my dogs, puppies, and my writings on the Puppy In Training [...]

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