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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Storm Defender Dog Cape – Part 1

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I couldn’t tell you when our dog’s storm fears began, only that it wasn’t always like this. Dakota had become deathly afraid of storms. One theory was that the lightning strike we had a couple years earlier was the trigger. …

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Do turtles eat strawberries?

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If it wasn’t for our dog Dakota we wouldn’t know about half of the creatures we share our one acre with. She’d led us to Eastern Kingsnakes, Minotaur Dung Beetles and a variety of other interesting creatures and plants. This …

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Afraid of Dogs

We were watching a show called My Extreme Animal Phobia about people who are deathly afraid of creatures such as spiders, snakes, cockroaches, lizards, pitbull dogs, and even butterflies and moths. The show provided a therapist to work with the …

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Kindle Comic Creator Application

I decided to give the Kindle Comic Creator Application a try for a kid’s book entitled, “Do Turtles Eat Strawberries.” I’d already successfully published several coffee table photo books on Kindle which were written in straight HTML, then run through …

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Dog Hookworms Can Kill Your Dog

Hookworms are one of the nastier worms that can infect a dog and your dog can catch hookworms in ways that would surprise you. In addition, YOU can catch hookworms, too. First of all, hookworms are so small that you …

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Dog Friendly Beaches in the Outer Banks – NOT!

It’s hard to find dog friendly beaches close to us, and we had to drive 12 hours one way for our beach dog vacation. We stayed in Rodanthe, which is in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, also known as …

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