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Get your creative dog going right here!
Share your pics (jpegs please), poetry, prose and
what-have-you to show how much you love your pooch!Send to christy@handinpawdogtraining.com.
Babs just knows she looks hot in her doggles.
Ruby is stylin' in her
sassy collar.
Pit bull snuggle fest! Jelly Bean (left) and Big Daddy share a snooze.
Black Lab Jake thinks this piece of a ladder makes the
perfect toy!
Lexi looks proud and she should — she is a changed pooch due to the dedicated efforts of her owners Lacee and Joe.
Crystal says, "HA! I finally got adopted!"
Gypsy believes she is too cute to get in trouble for anything! And she's probably right!
Gracie’s ears have a
meeting in the middle.
The Amazing Monte shows off
one of four ear positions —
the good-luck cross!
Max (Havranek's Rescue) won Best Shepherd Mix at the 2008 Rescue Rave. Click here to see more photos from the event.
Staffie Ted is grinning ear to ear
(and so is his owner, Sandy) because
he aced his Canine Good Citizen test!
(We miss you, sweetie [2010].)
"Christy, thank you for guiding me and turning me into such an angel," says Dempsey Dog.
Banshee shows off her unbelievable cuteness.
Two happy littermates — Sir Lancelot
and Lady Guinevere.
Baby squirrel's in Charlotte's yard mightily tempt her high-prey-drive dog Olive Oyl.
Bonnie's Bristol is now a cuddly 125 pounds!
"Christy, thanks for making me such a good dog," says Olive Oyl Heppner, recent CGC-certified pup!
Baby, a Delta Society-certified
R.E.A.D. dog, is ready for duty!
Mastiff mix Artemis has learned to walk calmly and proudly at his owner Yolanda's side.
Emily and Matt's "kids" Maddox (bulldog) and Isa (Italian greyhound).
Maddox is a H.I.P. class graduate!
Ed and Lucy patiently wait for the OK so they can dig into their birthday pupcakes.
Owners Emmet and Emily still can hardly believe these two will stay put for this!
Ebbie shows off her cooking
skills as the Howling Gourmet.
Mastiff mix Buddy says "Look how cute I am!" Owner Scott recently took him through Basics class at The Mutt Hutt.
Adorable Cocker Pollyanna is exhausted
from studying for her CGC test.
Ebbie says: "With clicker,
all things are possible!"
Rest easy, Kola. We miss you.
Lily tries to convince us she would NEVER do anything wrong
(and if she did, we'd immediately forgive her).I Am Your Dog
(Author Unknown)I am your dog and I have a little something I'd like to whisper in your ear. I know that you humans lead busy lives. Some have to work, some have children to raise. It always seems like you are running here and there, often much too fast, often not noticing the truly grand things in life. Look down at me now, while you sit there at your computer. See the way my dark brown eyes look at yours? They are slightly cloudy now. That comes with age. The gray hairs are beginning to ring my soft muzzle.
You smile at me and I see love in your eyes. What do you see in mine? Do you see a spirit? A soul inside, who loves you as no other could in the world? A spirit that would forgive all trespasses of prior wrong doing for just a moment of your time? That is all I ask. To slow down, if even for a few minutes, to be with me. So many times you have been saddened by the words you read on that screen, of others of my kind passing. Sometimes we die young and oh so quickly. Sometimes we age so slowly before your eyes that you may not even seem to know until the very end, when we look at you with grizzled muzzles and cataract clouded eyes. Still the love is always there,even when we must take that long sleep to run free in a distant land.
I may not be here tomorrow. I may not be here next week. Someday you will shed the water from your eyes that humans have when deep grief fills their souls, and you will be angry at yourself that you did not have just one more day with me. Because I love you so, your sorrow touches my spirit and grieves me. We have now together. So come sit down next to me here on the floor, and look deep into my eyes. What do you see? If you look hard and deep enough we will talk, you and I, heart to heart. Come to me not as an alpha, or as a trainer, or even as mom and dad. Come to me as a living soul and stroke my fur and let us look into one another's eyes and talk. I may tell you something about the fun of chasing a tennis ball, or I may tell you something profound about myself, or even about life in general.
You decided to have me in your life because you wanted a soul to share such things with. Someone very different from you; and here I am. I am a dog, but I am alive. I feel emotion, I feel physical senses, and I can revel in the differences of our spirits and souls. I do not think of you as a dog on two feet; I know what you are. You are human, in all your quirkiness, and I love you still.
Now, come sit with me on the floor. Enter my world, and let time slow down if only for 15 minutes. Look deep into my eyes and whisper into my ears. Speak with your heart and with your joy, and I will know your true self. We may not have tomorrow, and life is so very short.
Love,
Your Dog
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