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Read MoreTraveling to Mexico with Two Australian Shepherds – Vet Visits
About a month ago, I wrote an article about heartworm prevention in dogs. This was not out of the blue – it was because we were planning for a trip to Mexico and the new dog regulations require a veterinary sign-off on the treatment/prevention of both ecto and endo parasites. We recently returned and I am working on writing up our adventures. In the meantime, below is a description of how we prepared for our trip.
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Read MoreHeartworm Prevention in Australian Shepherds – My Experience
When we rescued Trooper from the kennel I worked at, we decided to follow our vet’s recommendation for endo and ecto parasite prevention – Advantix for fleas and ticks and Heartgard for heartworms and other internal parasites.
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Read MoreOur New Dog Adventure Vehicle
Why we have been Looking for a New Car: Our 2008 Honda Fit is pretty awesome. Not only does it have the nice looking sport package, but it gets awesome gas mileage. On our latest trip to Reserve, where most of the road is 65 miles per hour, we got 38 mpg.
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Read MoreRecognizing and Avoiding Heat Exhaustion in Dogs
I mentioned in a post recently that we have reduced our hiking adventures due to the weather. We are coming up on monsoon season and the weather always becomes very hot and humid several weeks before the clouds arrive en mass.
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Read MoreWe have Two High Energy Dogs in a Tiny House
The dogs and I have been absent for a few months because I have been writing a book about our recent (3 years ago) lifestyle change. Brian and I sold our big house in Connecticut, toured around the Southwest and finally built a ‘tiny house’. We have one full-sized piano, one parrot and two dogs in a tiny house.
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Purgatory Chasm, Gila National Forest
After consuming a large Cinnabon cinnamon roll each, we felt an intense hike would be in our best interest. We loaded up the dog team and headed east.
Ode to Dog Fun
We went on an adventure
To climb a great hill
Wanting some exercise
Boy, we’d get our fill
Australian Shepherd Haircut – Shave Time!
Shortly after the Sydney (mis)adventure, I gave the dogs their Australian Shepherd haircut – aka the shave down. I decided to try to improve my technique and do a better job than when I created the Sydney Mistake.
Sydney’s Scary River (mis)Adventure
Sydney got swept away in a river recently and it was very scary. Here’s the story:
The Shaved Australian Shepherd & Why it’s okay
I’ve written a lot about grooming lately. In my own angst about the shaved Australian Shepherd and undercoat chaos management, I have been doing a lot of reading and I just had to write about it again. In this post, we discuss our decision to shave the dogs.
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