Akiva and Vasco 8-2008

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“This lovely Sih Tzu girl is Elsie Mater Tater Tot (Elsie for short!). She is such a sweet little dog; I don’t know what I would do without her! I hope you like her Halloween picture…I think she made a cute little bee! Thanks!”

10/5/2011
4:09 p.m.

Good Afternoon Friends;

Kayce Cover (Creator of Synalia SATS Animal training) -- Photo Credit: Judith Lissenberg Hondenleven Magazine

Over the coarse of the the next five days, my dogs, Karen and I are going to have the honor of workng in person with my friend Kayce Cover.  Kayce Cover is an expert animal trainer who has created a unique animal training system called SATS.  She has spoken to countless large live audiences about animal training; totaling nearly 3 million people, I find that very impressive.

She is traveling to our home here in Wisconsin and we are going to spend the next 5 days working with her to solve some training problems with my Shih Tzu dogs (I’m really looking forward to resolving some long standing training issues!).  We are also going to be shooting a lot of video of the work we are doing.  Some of it will be video we share with members of the PawDogs training list (CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE PAWDOGS TRAINING LIST – FREE) and some of it will be put together as part of new training programs and webinars that we are working on creating.

We have a number of exciting projects that we have been planing and this will give us a change to fine tune our plans.  I can’t tell you about all of the details of our upcoming projects just yet, but I know they will be of great interest to many of our members here.  If you would like to make sure you stay in touch and hear about our upcoming projects, enter your e-mail address below to join our Paw Dogs Newsletter:

I’m very excited about everything we have planed and am greatly looking forward to her visit.  I’ll keep you updated over the next few days, as I know there will be a lot to talk about.  As always, Thank You so much for being a loyal PawDogs member, please keep sharing all those great photos on our Paw Dogs Online Community facebook page and don’t forget about our Paw Dogs Forum, where you can register for a free account so you can share photos with everyone on the Internet.

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Jamie Dolan
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p.s. Kayce is still honoring the special price on her book TALK to me!  for Paw Dogs community members.  It’s a fun easy to read e-book, you can find out the details and order it online via this page.  With the special offer, you can get a copy of her book for only $10.95, the book currently is selling for $20.95 on her web site.

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A day of planting many plants at my parents, and a few here at home.

This evening we got to try out our new firepit that I got for my Birthday.

It worked out nicely. We watched a movie on Netflix on my Vaio while we sat by the fire. We used the bug spray we got for chistmas and it seemed to work, the bugs left us alone. We got cold and headed in after about a hour and a half.

Fire Pit:

Akiva and Vasco in the living room after a long day helping us plant.

Good Night!

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Akiva had a very nice 8th birthday.

Akiva got a whole stash of new toys for his Birthday:

Though, Vasco quickly killed the yellow toy (must not have been very strong):

I’ll post some videos on his birthday once I get them uploaded.

Happy Birthday 8th Akiva!

Akiva turns 8 tomorrow. (3-25-2011)

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2/28/2011

Akiva & Vasco. February 28th 2011.

February went by stunningly fast. It’s hard to believe that it was a full year ago today that Akiva became ill. It was the last 2 days of February that he started having trouble, and he went into the vet on March 1, 2010. It took him months to recover, and he finally was able to climb steps again on my Birthday, May 25th 2010. He has done very well since then. He broke his front leg early this month and had 3 weeks of quiet time where I carried him around. Though he really rapidly recovered and was walking normally within about 10 days. It will be 4 weeks on this Thursday since he broke his leg. I took him out for a walk yesterday, and he was running with no sign of distress, so I think it healed up well. We will take another x-ray in 1 month to make sure it healed well.

It was a funny month for weather here, in the middle of the month, most everything other than the snow banks melted. I could see most of the backyard again. For a short time we thought we have a very short winter. Then we got a ton of snow again, now it looks like as much snow as ever.

Paw Dogs — New Logo

I’ve spent most of the last 3 weeks working on my new Paw Dogs site. I spent the first 5 weeks of the year planning thinking about what to do for a site and looking at software. Now 3 weeks later, the site is running, the graphics are almost all done, and we will see the new site design in place within the next 2 weeks. We have started getting a few visitors and a couple uploads to the site. I know we will have to promote it a lot to get it going, but I think it will be a nice site that people will enjoy. The software I choose is working quite well. I’ve been exploring some other idea to help promote the site. I been looking at offering web hosting as a donation to dog businesses, such as shelters and rescues.

This month, we ran a contest on the Willys Jeep site to promote it. We gave away posters to 4 different people. We had a couple people promote us on their Blogs. About 30 new people joined the site. It’s nice to have some more activity on the site, it is starting to look a bit more substantial. Hopefully we can keep the activity up and keep the site growing.

Kitchen — Coffee Bar area 2-28-2011

We (mainly my dad) made a lot of progress on our kitchen remodel this month. I was pretty focused on the web sites and didn’t do a lot. We have a counter top installed, we got the tiles on the wall all installed last week and we have a working sink. Very nice to be moving forward, my dad is doing a wonderful job on it.

Various Plants growing under lights.

We are getting to the point in winter where the plants that are not in ideal situations (in terms of light mainly) are starting to get really unhappy. Two of my bonsai trees are showing serious distress, one of them is in very good light and should not be having problems. The other is in lower light, but one right next to it of the same type is doing fine. Hopefully they are just taking a break and will leaf out again. I had a couple succulents that I over watered around Christmas. A couple hoya that were just a couple feet from the window really had trouble, they just needed more light than they got.

The plants under the lights in the basement are almost all universally doing great. Rarely a problem down there. Pretty much every other day watering. There are Pathos growing half way to the floor from tiny little 3 inch containers. The Hoya I bought on ebay back in October are growing very well also, you can see one of them growing up past the top of the light fixtures.

Even the Aloe is doing well.

Well I am a day late posting this. I worked on Paw Dogs today, I got a number of things done. We are starting to get picked up in the search engines. We are at listing #14 for Paw Dogs which is a good sign to see that happening this quickly. Our pages are getting picked up in the search engines, thought not quite as rapidly as I would like. That will improve. Pages from my Blogs get into Google within minutes of posting. I wrote today about a new program we are doing at Paw Dogs for Yahoo Group Owners to encourage them to switch their groups over to Paw Dogs.

Mock-up for the new PawDogs site.

Please leave a comment and give me feedback on the design.

My dogs Vasco and Hera sitting together in the chair. Hera was a little snippy when Vasco first jumped up in the chair, but quickly settled down and they two of them say together for quite a while.

That’s Akiva towards the end of the video.