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Walter on Positive Pet/Vet Training.

Thanks for not mentioning my big nasty scab. I woke up last week with a corgi toenail inside my ear....
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Walter Sings the Songs of his People.

Walter, Tomboy, & Preacher Man supervising chores. My friend Sarah says, “All dog stories end the...
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Walter on the Predator/Prey Thing.

Walter likes to think he's an only dog. Walter likes to think of himself as amazingly...
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Walter Kills (bags) at Lure Coursing.

Dominating athleticism... Razor sharp senses...  Intense animal magnetism...  Walter! It's been three months since Walter came here from Wyoming Dachshund...
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Walter, Walter, Walter.

Walter is starting to settle in with us. Now I get to go to the bathroom by myself… about once...
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The Arrogance of Training Animals Silly Tricks.

Do you follow the Iditarod, too? Northern breeds are such athletes with their instincts on full display. These half-wild dogs...
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A Natural Instinct to Dominate

I find it fascinating to watch children talking to animals. It's almost like studying mustangs. Kids are who we are,...
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Remembrance: Someone's Always Dying

It's that weird week between the holidays. I never know what day it is so I mess up scheduling around Christmas,...
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Bite Your Tongue.

It's an election year and I'm a politics geek. There, I said it. But the rhetoric is deafening. Sometimes there...
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Dogs and the Things We Cannot Change

Are you the kind of person who gets nervous in a new place if there isn't a dog to talk...
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When Nothing Less than Havarti Will Do

I've been getting the stink eye from Preacher Man. It happens. He's a member of the Long and Low Club,...
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Singleton Dreams: Shedding in the Bedding

These are the dog days of summer--long and extreme. Not the kindest summer, either. My extended horse family has suffered...
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Yodeling, Yapping, and Ya-hoodling: A Book Trailer.

If you follow my farm blog, you know about the Corgi Men. There's Walter who came from a rescue in...
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Why I Like Bad-Dogs.

I wasn't always this way. There was a time when I was a serial Golden Retriever owner. I wanted a...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Twinkle

Rescue Corgis, DBA The Little Men: Walter and the Preacher Man. This twinkle inspired by true love. Or maybe leftover...
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Waiting out the storm with the Dogs of War.

Profound courage on guard detail. Last Monday I worked a couple of horses in the morning....
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned

ABANDONED.....NO MORE! Not the Corgis...Me. I'm no longer abandoned in the bathroom, ostracized in a tiny damp room that smells...
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The Corgi Witness Protection Program.

Did you know there is a Corgi Witness Protection Program? Do you have room for a dog with a history?...
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