May 17, 2012

How Many Sprollies?

How Many Pups

While browsing through my RSS feed I came across another great puppy photo from the PuppyParade. I was trying to figure out what breed of puppies these were because they or absolutely adorable. If you go to the flickr stream by clicking the title: The Calm before the storma you can see more great pictures [...]

Have You Seen The Shiba Inu Puppy Cam?

It’s been probably about a month since I first saw the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam. Those puppies are getting big, but they are still adorable. As I said it’s been about a month and just now I decided what a great video to embed in the Puppy In Training website. Sorry it took me so [...]

10 Myths About Pit Bulls

Pit bull

A few weeks ago I attended the Pet Days at the Orange County Marketplace. I had the chance to talk to several different dog rescues and even met several loving dogs who were up for adoption. Not surprisingly (to me) some of the friendliest dogs I met were Pit Bulls. Many of you now might [...]

What is Big Black Dog Syndrome?

Stetson and his siblings

Have you ever heard of big black dog syndrome? Until just recently I never thought twice about the color of my dogs fur then I heard about big black dog syndrome. I was amazed when I heard that big black dogs were euthanized at a much higher rate then other dogs. What Is Big Black [...]

Who Would My Dog Vote For: Obama or McCain?

I Voted Sticker

Happy Election Day! With all the hoopla surrounding the election today I decided to get a political post up on the puppy in training site and try and find out who my dogs would vote for. I’m not a very political person and while I do keep my ears open to the election, candidates, and [...]

Top 10 Dog Breeds

Google Results

Today I was thinking about the top 10 dog breeds and if you do a search in Google you’ll see tens even hundreds of articles about the top 10 dog breeds. The most commons lists you’ll find are hard numbers done by the American Kennel Club (AKC). The AKC produces a list each year wit [...]

Brindle Labrador Retrievers

Brindle Puppy

Have you ever seen a Brindle Labrador Retriever? As far as I know I have not seen one in person. Although, I’m not too sure I’d recognize a purebred brindle Labrador retriever even if I saw one. Just about everyone has heard of the Labrador Retriever breed. And I’d probably say that most people know [...]

Stetson Missed This Years Puppy Trials

Yellow Lab vs the Hot Dogs

…but I missed the Guide Dog Demonstration We were late for the Guide Dogs of America open house this year and we missed the Guide Dog demonstration. I felt even worse about missing the demo when I heard that our friend Dustin was one of the dogs in the demonstration. Everyone told me he did [...]

What Do You Know About Vizsla’s?

Until just a couple days ago I had never seen a Vizsla. Actually I may have seen one in the past, but did not know what breed of dog it was. After doing research for my article Top 10 Dogs Good With Children Part II I learned about the Vizsla breed and ranked the breed [...]

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 [...]