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Sometimes you just gotta laugh

Posted 02-09-2011 at 02:28 AM by alaskayorkie
Updated 02-10-2011 at 05:40 AM by alaskayorkie

All I ever wanted from training my dogs was to keep them from running away from me.

I got a little carried away with the obedience and performance classes, but deep down I've always been completely satisfied with them because I don't have dogs who bolt out of the house and down the street at the first opportunity they get.

So you can imagine my frustration last night when Jillie, my 1 1/2 year old 4-pounder who thinks she's "all that," refused to come in from...

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Special moment on a therapy dog visit

Posted 08-19-2011 at 03:07 PM by alaskayorkie
Updated 08-19-2011 at 03:09 PM by alaskayorkie

At YorkieTherapy's request, I'm reposting a submission I made to the Delta Society's "Interactions" magazine. It was just a single moment on a visit that reminded me why I love working with Eddie as a volunteer to cheer people up:

Providence Alaska Medical Center’s PAWS program has a “trick specialist” — a Yorkie named Eddie who visits the Center with his Pet Partner, Mike Lewis.

Mike notes, “Most of our visits involve Eddie performing. We had one recent...

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I got in a fight with a pitbull today :O

Posted 01-10-2013 at 02:18 AM by alaskayorkie
Updated 01-10-2013 at 05:11 AM by alaskayorkie

I got in a dogfight with a pit bull today. He was in the midst of pouncing on Eddie, and the only thing that came to mind was to pounce on him. Miraculously, I won. Eddie didn't get hurt. And we all walked away nervous but unhurt.

It was one of those situations I've heard described here on YT many times. Funny, when others described it, something in the back of my mind always thought "You know, it might have been avoided if ..." But it's been 10 hours since the attack, and...

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Loving the senior years so far

Posted 08-23-2015 at 05:07 PM by alaskayorkie
Updated 08-23-2015 at 05:11 PM by alaskayorkie

As my last two blogs can attest, I've been hung up on Eddie's senior years for the last year or so. He's 11 now, and I honestly feel I've worked my way through the fear of his aging and I've come to embrace it.

I've come to the conclusion that Eddie's kinda like the Toby Keith song: "I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was."...

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Yorkies & Me

Posted 08-24-2015 at 04:12 PM by Lizchloe

This is my Doggy Story. Ever since I was a child, I have had a dog. When I was five years old I was surprised by my parents with a little Poodle puppy, she was the beginning of a great love for dogs. Years later when I was on my own, I got two Poodle puppies named Nikki and Max, They were the centre of my life, Max lived to be 16 and Nikki lived to 18 years old. But...