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Some Toads Are Poisonous for Dogs
It was a warm, summer night in Georgia. Toads were calling out for their mates and cricketsong filled the air. The moon was just a sliver in the sky. An owl hooted off in the distance. Our dog Dakota disappeared …
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Tree Face Bird Houses
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There is nothing more exciting than your birds coming home to roost, especially if you’ve been waiting for years for them to roost up the nose of a tree face bird house. My husband had been wanting tree faces, and …
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Dog Changing Colors
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There are many reasons for a dog’s skin color to change. An aging dog’s nose may start turning pink. In cold weather some dogs get Winter Nose or Snow Nose, causing their nose to turn pink. There’s a long list …
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Redneck Hillbilly Pontoon
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We were booking a vacation at the lake and this was intended to be a dog trip. Unlike most road trips where the dogs get penned up in somebody’s living room for a week, the dogs were going to go …
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Dog Versus Big Snake
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I have now officially lost track of how many times our dog Dakota has put the fear of her death into me. She is not a dainty little dog. Dakota is what you’d call a dog’s dog, totally immersed in …
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Stinky Dog
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Our dog Dakota came into the house stinking like a dead thing. She’d only been outdoors a few minutes for potty and in that short time she’d gotten into something so foul smelling that you could smell her from several …
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Storm Defender Dog Cape – Part 4
You’d think that the Storm Defender saga would be over but nope, there is another installment to the story. In Storm Defender Dog Cape – Part 2, I shared the story of how the Storm Defender seemed to prevent storms …
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Storm Defender Dog Cape – Part 3
I can’t believe that a whole year has passed since I last posted about our dog Dakota and her fear of thunderstorms. In Part 1 of our dog’s fear of thunderstorms, we ordered the Storm Defender Dog Cape. In Part …
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Storm Defender Dog Cape – Part 2
Part 2 of the Storm Defender dog cape story was supposed to be about the big storm that came thundering in and whether the Storm Defender dog cape kept our dog calm during the storm. The story, however, took a …
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