YourDesignerDogBlog: The Adventures of Sadie the Yorkipoo
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Today I am so excited because it is the one day a year my family and I gather together for my favorite arts and craft activity: pysanky. Pysanky is the Ukrainian / Polish art of decorating Easter eggs. In the photo above Sadie is posed with some wooden store bought examples of Pysanky. Continue reading
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These pictures are from Sadie’s very first trip to the beach last year! It was cold that day, so I Sadie and I didn’t go into the ocean at all, but we still had a blast in the sand. When we first got there I stepped onto the beach but Sadie hesitated on the boardwalk. She was looking back and forth from me to the sand, as if asking “Really? I’m supposed to walk on this stuff? It’s ok for me to do that?” Continue reading
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Sometimes I feel like my dog’s default setting is napping. If no one is doing something interesting, eating something interesting, or playing with something interesting, Sadie just falls asleep. But the minute there is an interesting noise or smell, she jumps up to investigate in a flash. It seems like the old saying ‘taking a catnap’ applies to dogs as well. Continue reading
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When you begin training a puppy or new dog, one of the first things you need to learn is what motivates that particular animal. For most dogs this is usually some type of food. It could be some carrots, pieces of turkey or chicken breast, or even a dollop of peanut butter; if a particular treat can be broken into small pieces and makes your dog spin around your feet in excited circles whenever you hold it, that food would make a good motivator for your dog.
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Sadie is a small dog. People often call her munchkin, peanut, little one, and many other diminutive nicknames. Because of her size, Sadie often gets away with more mischief than a larger dog. A common phrase in my household is “if you were a bigger dog we couldn’t allow this, but since you’re so little…” Or “you really shouldn’t do that, but you’re just so little and cute…” Continue reading