dog advice
I am passionate about dog advice & making life better for every dog I encounter. I am forever gathering information for my own use in the day-to-day running of a house full of dogs, so I blog a lot of what I find. I also blog when I need to rant about something that needs to be ranted about. I hope you enjoy my blog. I’ve blogged about topics ranging from dietary info to grooming to behavioural issues. If what you are looking for isn’t on the blog, please contact me at grace@rrruffhouse.com and I will see what I can do.
Success: Casie the boarder collie cross
My name is Craig Bailey, I was sent to Grace from Trenton Vets, who highly recommended her to us to help Cassie. I have never had a puppy before Cassie and had no idea on how to raise a good well-balanced puppy until I found Grace. Cassie was a very energetic puppy...
Deshedding tool
These tools sell for about $60-70 in local pets stores, I have been able to find them for $25-30 from a distributor I found, they are just the same in very way as the Furminator tool found in pets store with out the mark up! If anyone is interested in purchasing them...
Our new buddy Tobey
This is the newest member to join our boot camp, Tobey is a little white boxer with bounds of energy that just needed a little help with his manners! Tobey is the boxer with the brown on the right side of his cute little face, he was having some issues with eating...
Midnight Stalker
We call it a reverse Oreo! They call it fun! These are my dogs Mylo and Junior, they went to their friends Summer house for a play date. As you can see I thin they enjoyed themselves, but I need to share a bit of the back ground story that you can't see. Summer the...
LED safety harness
I am going to do a little survey if you guys can possibly help me out? Rrruffhouse is going to start offering products that I believe in like these LED harnesses, collars and lights to attach to leashes or anything! these will be available from Rrruffhouse in December...
Best food I have found
Here is what I have found, if you have a bulldog, boxer, boston terrier or a french bull-dog with some skin issues like their fur is falling out in patches, or they have that smell of sour yeast it is typical of bulldogs. I rescued our bull-dog Misses last may and...
Did you know?
This is my dogs new best friend Rachel, she is seven and has very good lets call it " dog karma " I have owned the chuck it ball launcher for quite some time now and silly me, thought it was for chucking balls around the park! Well I would be wrong it has another...
Meet Cassie
My name is Craig Bailey, I was sent to Grace from Trenton Vets, who highly recommended her to us to help Cassie. I have never had a puppy before Cassie and had no idea on how to raise a good well-balanced puppy until I found Grace. Cassie was a very energetic puppy...
The pound of cure!
I am first going to start out by saying this post is very graphic and horrific! This is an extreme case but none the less a possibility when we purchase gladiator breed puppies because their cute without doing our due diligence! Gladiator breeds are not for every...
Why I love what I do!
This is an update on our buddy Rufus, he is doing very well and when I went to see him today he was the happy silly boy I knew he was and could be with the Phillips family, they love him dearly and it shows! he was jumping and running with not a care in the world....
I get by with a little help from my friends!
This is my working dog Mylo, and his buddy Benny. Benny is a fearful dog and is working on socialization, Benny is afraid of people and dogs and when approached usually whines, I as a trainer was having a bit of trouble teaching Benny that when people or dogs approach...
Something to think about
"Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs."
Bella the cocker
This is Bella, a fun loving, energetic ball of fur who really likes to sleep and play on the couch and we have been trying to teach her that she doesn't belong on the couch and she seems to be sad about this! She now after a few weeks of training is doing much better,...
Quick joke
Dear God: If a dog barks his head off in the forest and no human hears him, is he still a bad dog
Funny dogs
“Why do dogs run in circles? Because it’s hard to run in squares!” I overheard a child at the park tell this joke and I laughed out loud. I shared it with several other people over the next few days and a clear pattern emerged. Dog lovers found it at least a little...
Helpful hints
Here is some answers to some of my most common questions! 1. My dog has green gunk in his eyes, what can I use? Answer: you can use polysporin eye drops or visine allergy eye drops. 2. My dog has hives, what can I use? Answer: you can use Benadryl allergy pills 25 mg...
Funny video
bacon kind you have to go and check out this video, it made me laugh so hard I almost peed my pants! If you have a dog I'm sure you can appreciate the funny ness of this video! Enjoy if you can't find it from the link go to you tube and put in bacon kind! That's where...
Gentle leaders
I would like to touch briefly on a common tool that I personally have had great success with over the past few years when used correctly, it is the gentle leader. This is not a muzzle in anyway shape of form this is simply a tool to help teach your dog to walk in a...
your tired when!
Our little bulldog Misses was so tired, but afraid to miss out on something that she fell asleep while standing in the middle of the livingroom! I have seen them fall asleep while sitting but never standing before, I'm starting to think that im getting all the reject...
when one door closes
This is Loki, he sat by the door for such a long time broken-hearted. My husband left and didn't take him with, now I know what he does when we all leave, he sits and waits for our return! Oh Loki it's not the end of the world he will be back soon, he just went to the...
Needed to feel tall
This is our little misses, she is the shortest, fattest, and slowest dog in the house. With that said she just might be the smartest! Here is why, she couldn't jump over the dogs laying on the floor, couldn't go under the kick out of the lazy boy chair, could have...
Who is Grace?
Hi there. I’m Grace. I am a very hard working, compassionate and strong willed woman who loves a challenge and never backs down from a hard days work, which is a good mix for working with dogs that are having trouble getting along in the world with us humans! The greatest reward I get in life is when someone tells me I saved the life of their dog so they didn’t have to give it up! I love nothing more then showing people how to be a leader in their own world and all aspects of life! I am a leader, and walk my own path in life and I’ll go where ever it takes me! CLICK TO READ MORE...