http://blog.k9cuisine.com Everything K9.... Brought to you by K9Cuisine.com Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:21:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi guys, I'm sorry I haven't been posting as often.  I've been doing a lot of thinking about the direction I want to take this blog.  One of the most amazing things about having a dog and having a blog about a dog is that you're constantly rediscovering your love and ... http://blog.k9cuisine.com/2008/07/23/introspection-amazing-dogs/ By Mark Doty, Fetch?  Balls and sticks capture my attention seconds at a time.  Catch?  I don't think so. Bunny, tumbling leaf, a squirrel who's- oh joy- actually scared.  Sniff the wind, then I'm off again: muck, pond, ditch, residue of any thrillingly dead thing.  And you? Either you're sunk in the past, half our walk, thinking of ... http://blog.k9cuisine.com/2008/07/18/golden-retrievals/ I found this fascinating piece today. It was a visionary part of The Royal College of The Arts' Summer Show. The artist, Revital Cohen, created a showcase of futuristic relations in which the animal discovers a whole new role in our lives, one of keeping us alive, being ... http://blog.k9cuisine.com/2008/07/15/the-future/ I began to fantasize today about winning that 100 dollar gift certificate from K9 cuisine, spoiling Stranger with new treats and toys and novelties. I'm not eligible, but I went ahead and made a wish list anyways. A girl can dream, right? So, here it goes... One tub of Happytails ... http://blog.k9cuisine.com/2008/07/15/wish-list/ Shama, our marketing consultant, founder of After The Launch, and my very kind boss just adopted an 8 week old maltipoo. I was over at her house the other day, helping her train him, and he is adorable. Somewhere between a marshmallow, a cotton ball, and a blue ... http://blog.k9cuisine.com/2008/07/12/name-that-dog/ I had done a post on shadow chasing a while back, and I decided to submit one of the comments to the expert to gain some, well, expertise..so here it is The Question: My dog, Cali, is a year and a half and she has had a fixation with shadows ... http://blog.k9cuisine.com/2008/07/10/another-answer-from-the-expert-2/ In an earlier post, I wrote about the benefits of playing with your dog, using games to build trust and communication, not to mention expend the inexhaustible canine energy.  Well, recently my boyfriend begin roller blading with Stranger.  Inspired by the Dog Whisperer, he thought roller blading would be ideal, ... http://blog.k9cuisine.com/2008/07/07/roller-dog/ BioArts, a California based company, recently held an essay contest that asked "Why Does your Dog Deserve to Be Cloned?" and as the prize, offered to preserve the dog's DNA and clone it.   The  winner is a  Canadian search and rescue dog named Trakr.  Trakr is a 15 year old ... http://blog.k9cuisine.com/2008/07/02/what-happend-to-commemorative-plaques/ Understand English? It is undeniable that dogs do respond to a small selection of words, sit, fetch, stay, come, but do they really have a capacity to understand more?  Recent research shows that dogs possess a profound intelligence with the average trained dog knowing 160 words.  Some dogs' capabilities with language ... http://blog.k9cuisine.com/2008/07/02/do-dogs-9/ One of my proudest accomplishments with Stranger is training him to wait until I wake up, rather than be woken up. Every morning, I wake up and after a few lazy belly rubs, I let the mutt outside for a couple minutes. I make some coffee, and Stranger ... http://blog.k9cuisine.com/2008/07/01/the-doggy-grind/