Moving To Andalusia

I was talking to a friend about pets. He told me he’d moved to Spain fully expecting to get a couple of dogs and actually bought a huge car with this in mind. Then he looked after a friend’s dogs for a week and was cured forever: no way was he going to let disobedient, [...]

February 7th, 2009 | Tags: dogs, pup, puppy, training | Category: Puppies for dummies | Comments (2)

I thought we were trundling along nicely raising a pup, but staying in a hotel for the past week or so has set us back considerably. In the hotel, she cried so loudly that a kindly man thought we were torturing the poor beast and asked the manager to check. They let her out of [...]

February 4th, 2009 | Tags: bench, benching, housebreaking, puppies, puppy | Category: Puppies for dummies, The first few days with a new puppy | Leave a comment

I’m in a dog sized universe so a film called A man and his dog sounded right up my alley.
One time French heartthrob Jean Paul Belmondo plays an older guy, down on his luck, who has nothing going for him apart from his dog.
Bebel had a stroke in 2001, leaving him paralyzed on his right [...]

January 29th, 2009 | Tags: Belmondo, dog, pup, puppy, stroke, un homme et son chien | Category: Puppies for dummies, Random thoughts | Leave a comment

 
If anyone were to ask me advise about getting a puppy, my first would be: DON’T!
It’s too much work, takes up too much attention, money and time. Get a mature dog from a pound, there’s so many dogs out there looking for a good home! And you don’t have to get up in the middle [...]

January 25th, 2009 | Tags: house training, Madoff, puppies, puppy, raising a dog | Category: Puppies for dummies, The first few days with a new puppy | Leave a comment

 
I must confess that at some point yesterday I was desperately cursing myself for falling for the whiles of a wanton puppy. Stupid, stupid! Now I’d be stuck with a whining dog for the rest of my life, I’d never sleep again, they’d find me in thirty years mumbling to myself, chewing dog treats and [...]

January 20th, 2009 | Category: The first few days with a new puppy | Comments (1)

My respect for people who take on babies deepens and deepens. Getting up about every hour sucks so badly. I guess young parents do have the advantage over dog owners that they don’t have to step out into the freezing cold with a shivering puppy who tries to climb into your socks and try and make [...]

January 19th, 2009 | Tags: Madoff, puppies, puppy training | Category: Puppies for dummies | Comments (1)