Ocean Dreamer

Sorry for the lack of posts for the past week.  Its been a pretty busy week between school and life in general. I had friends over for a BBQ on Monday – it was a random mix of people but everyone seemed to have fun. The weather turned out to be nice (they were threatening [...]

Yesterday I caught Cassie happily chewing on a bar of soap.  Yes, you read that right, soap.  Isn’t soap sometimes used as a punishment by parents (not that I endorse this approach)?  This was aloe soap, but still.  Ugh.

Yesterday I did my first round of inseminations. All things considered, they went pretty well. Some friends had really hilarious stories about their first times, but mine went off pretty smoothly … except for the dogs. For the uninitiated, the sperm comes in a small vile stored in a large tank of liquid nitrogen. Here’s [...]

You may know that the dog training community is currently divided into two main factions: “traditional” trainers who follow what is known as pack theory and positive or clicker trainers whose methods are based on animal learning theory. I am proud to fall into the second group, though I’ll leave the critiques of pack theory [...]