AWESOME DAY AT STRUT FOR STRAYS

I would like to thank everyone who helped us put this event together, it was a great turn out and lots of fun. Thank you to Richard, Celine, Emily, Sherry, Wayne, Marijo, Deb, Matt. G, Matt.B, Rachel, Brad, Bryan, all our dogs and everyone who...

ANOTHER AWESOME DAY

Today was another awesome day care day, 14 dogs here today and everyone getting along and having fun playing in the water and rolling in the dirt! A new human member of the rrruffhouse family was initiated with poop duty and took it like a champ! Great job everyone,...

FUNNY AS HELL

So today I was out on the deck and was playing with the dogs and dropped the ball in the pool and my bulldog Misses went crazy trying to get it out of the water, she spent a good 45 minutes trying her damnedest but was far from successful. Although she was upset that...

SAD PUPPET

So today ( Saturday ) is a very cold and grey day outside and still wet and muddy from all the rain we had yesterday, I put all the dogs out for a pee and play this morning and within five minutes they all wanted back in. Too cold for them they said! Today we have 12...

Puppet Swimming in the drinking bowl

We were just wondering the other day if Puppet would like the water, we live on the water and like to take the dogs swimming. So based on that she didn’t like to have a bath and if you pulled the hose out she ran like the wind we thought, okay so I don’t...

Humanizing Your Dog

One of the most important things I want to get across is that dogs are dogs — not humans! Find a canine solution. Often, the solution we would use for a human is totally wrong for solving a dog’s issues. For example, when a human sees a scared or nervous dog, s/he...

WHY DO DOGS DO WHAT THEY DO?

WHY DO DOGS YAWN? I did a quick search of the internet and along with what I expected to find,1) yawning is a physiological means of getting more oxygen into the lungs 2) it is a response to stress and pressure; 3) it is a calming signal to other dogs; I was surprised...

HOW TO STOP YOUR DOG FROM BARKING

Let’s face it – dogs bark. Some dogs bark for good reason and some do for apparently little or no reason and some do a little of both. Of course there are also certain breeds that are more prone to barking than others. The dog problem is not always the barking but the...

ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING

I would like to thanks friends of mine and rrruffhouse Scott and Erin, They have fallen in love with Boss who was surrendered last week and up for adoption. Scott and Erin already owned a 14 month old rottweiler named Diesel who I have trained since he was just a wee...