Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Sunrise River Dog Park, North Branch MN

Hey folks, the Sunrise River Dog Park will be open 3 month in Mid - November.  What a great place to take your 4-legged friends and crunch through the leaves!

If you would like to become a charter member, please email NorthBranchDogPark@gmail.com

We need more grass roots fundraising for the park fencing and have had folks ask about fencing in the low land which some dogs love to muck around in.  It's a budget thing right now!

So, come out use the park, donate to our citizen funded park and enjoy the Minnesota FALL!

We are located inside of Checkerboard County Park, east of North Branch, Minnesota, just off of Highway 95!

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Ticks,Fleas, Dog Bed Bugs, Mosquitoes and anything else out there!


Why can't we just have a normal summer without all of these creepy crawly bitey things?  Make sure and treat spray and frontline your pets!

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Dogs in the City on Ch 4 WCCO on Sunday nights at 7pm. 

Mollie & Como "Rock On" Doodles

The Doodle Craze (Big Mollie - the real Mollie) and Little Mollie (AKA Como). They are both Golden Doodles one standard poodle and one small poodle.  They are SO CUTE!

Goodbye too soon!

Goodbye Tooooo Soon to Mr. Yoon,

It's been fast, it's been great, and pretty soon
I will look for you in your room
                   and it will be toooo late.

We loved having you here,
the time for you to go home is near
so let's give you an American Cheer!

You're the best
Better than the rest
You came to us with lots of trust
and now, if you must
     leave us a part of your heart and come back again
     We're always your friends!
  

Go home and remember, we're always here, your family in Minnesota
Call, write, skype, email and keep us close and remember us the MOST!

                          Love Suzanne, Woody IV & Amanda Jean



Friday, September 23, 2011

It's a Dog's Life - At the Governor's Mansion!

When politics gets hard in the State of Minnesota (for all of us), we can go home to our 4-legged friends!

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Fireworks are not a dog's best friend...

I Love Family Reunions!
I remember my Dalmatian lab mix, Pal, I had when I was around 10 years old.  Pal did not like fireworks, firecrackers, bottle rockers, storms or anything that went boom.  He didn't grow up with the loud noises being a regular occurrence, and when I got him, it was probably too late to retrain him.

When I bred hunting labs, when they were young we would expose them to many things very early, trips in the car to the bank, or to the McDonald's drive through, or to run an errand, water, noise, people, kids, other animals, cats, more people and so on, and as many noises as we could.  Normally labs aren't gun shy or water shy, but it happens.

If you get a pup at a younger age, you can work on anxiety issues early.  The more you can expose a puppy to before the age of 16 weeks, the less it will fear things when it's older.  This is a key time for socializing and introducing new things.  If you get a dog from a breeder you can ask if they've socialized the pup or introduced them to different things, but if you get a dog from a rescue or another place, you'll find out what they're afraid of as you get to know them.  You can retrain a dog by doing the same thing 31 days in a row.  That means if you want them to lose a bad habit, you have to prevent them from doing that bad habit that many days in a row while introducing the good habit for 31 days.

Here's how to work on noise issues, have one person by the pup petting it, or just talking to it.  Have another person farther away, bang pots and pans, let off some firecrackers, run the generator in the garage, the house vacuum, or shop vac, and have the person by the pup just act calm--not react to the noise and act like nothing happened.  It doesn't always work, but if you get pups used to all kinds of noises when they're young, they won't fear them when they're older.

There's also the magnetic force field that comes with a storm, some dogs sense it before the weather person even knows it's coming and they're in the closet, under the bed, or just shaking their little boots off with fear.  Those dogs may need a dogie medication from your vet.  Talk to your vet about how extreme their fear of storm is and your options.

Remember, dog's sense how you feel and react from you, just like children.