Dog Park Canines Agog Over Book Award!

An NIEA Award goes to Sleeping between Giants Book 2!

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Happy Father’s Day! Love, your Pack. (Reposting from the early days of Budleigh)

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Wow! That Smarts!

Dogs are stupider than we thought, although probably they’d argue the point if they had a clue.


Ask a Terrier: Your Dog or Your Boyfriend. Is That Really a Question?

If he doesn’t get along with your dog, just how Significant is your Other?

Budleigh offers relationship advice.

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Fake News About Shelter Dogs

Cautious to avoid red tape and complicated forms, prospective pet owners often steer clear of adopting shelter dogs. However, the process is no more difficult than purchasing a pair of last season’s jeans that, without your intervention, would have been euthanized.


Ask A Terrier: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

To help a confused Cocker Spaniel, Budleigh explains the Nature of Time.

And din-dins!

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Please, Don’t Get Up!


Ask a Terrier: Dogs Are A Bargain! Except For The Money

Budleigh explains how dogs save Giants cash.

Whatever that is.

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Why Everyone Hates Your Dog, By Which I Mean My Dog

Canines have lived in symbiotic harmony with humans for more than 30,000 years. Except in my neighborhood.


Keep Quiet and Let Me Do All the Growling


Ask a Terrier: Destroy All Monsters!

Hideous creatures lurk in Poolie’s backyard. Are they dangerous?

No, advises Budleigh. They’re delicious!

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Marketing Your Dog

In full-throated summer, colorful, chaotic farmers markets offer a hot weather oasis where you can shop for locally produced, organically grown corn while your dog is torn apart by vicious, unsupervised hellhounds.


Watch Your Step, Giants!


Independence Isn’t for Everyone (A classic repost while I take the day off.)


Ask a Terrier: Budleigh Reminds Vacationers, “Hey, Ya’ Got this Dog Here!”

“Hurrah, road trip!” cheers mixed-breed Hanover. “Where am I not going?”

Budleigh commiserates.

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Happy Father’s Day! Love, your pack.


Taxing strategy


Ask a Terrier: Budleigh Takes a Walk on the Wild Side

When is wildlife too wild for dogs?

Budleigh explains how to be animal pals, not prey.

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Halloween and the Hound from…if Not Hell, then Nearby

While Halloween is a whimsical time for children, it can be disquieting for dogs and even more troubling for dog owners unaccustomed to working with the violent criminally insane.


Take four knees!


Ask a Terrier: Dogs and Children – When Species Collide

Dogs love children! And not just as a viable food source.

Budleigh explains why.

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Smoked glass ain’t gonna help


Ask a Terrier: Hero or Hungry?

Golden Retriever saves helpless fawn. Budleigh asks, “Why?”

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For Dogs, A Giant Health Care Problem

While Americans worry over the plight of affordable health care, their dogs are more anxious than they’ve been since the Great Bacon Rebellion of 1890.


Independence isn’t for everyone!


Ask a Terrier: The Latest Dirt on Dog Germs

Dirty dogs that bring the outside inside may be good for your health, if not your carpets.

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Bully for Budleigh!

Like humans, canines have been known to bully their own species, although they rarely steal lunch money and never send harassing texts due to the absence of thumbs.


Tug toys are people, too.


When dogs leak


Ask a Terrier: Budleigh Offers Food for Thought

What’s a healthy food choice for dogs? Roscoe the Beagle doesn’t care!

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United, we sit!

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Ask a Terrier: Washing Machines of Mass Destruction

Budleigh-bookshelf-eye-darkened-V2Lily is afraid of things that go bump in the night. And in the laundry room.

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Paper training

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Who will bark for the voiceless?

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Executive ordering dogs around

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Into the woods without a paddle, Pt. 4

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Ask a Terrier: The Giant as Emoticon

ask-a-terrier-main-pic-w-bookshelfUsing sharp teeth and claws, Budleigh unravels the Great Philosophical Question!

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The allegory continues…, Pt. 3

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A dog of discontent! Pt. 2

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The dogs vs. Giant Amazon Alexa, Pt. 1

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Last-minute gifts for the dog who has – or chews – everything.

Because of the chaos that comes with taking your dog to the store for a holiday present, instead consider giving him a gift card or, depending on the breed, cash.


Ask a Terrier: Can’t We All Just Get Along?

ask-a-terrier-main-pic-w-bookshelfA poodle with a problem turns…lunging and barking…to Budleigh.
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It’s just a game…until it isn’t!

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Happy Thanksgimme!

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Workin’ Dog or Hardly Workin’?

To own a working dog can be appealing, especially for families that tend to wander aimlessly across the landscape in large, unmanageable herds.


Election Night Jitters

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Better fed than Red!

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“We kinda welcome the media!”

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Shoes and Socks – A Taste Test, Part 3: Positive Reinforcement or ‘They Made Me a Criminal!’

Dogs and shoes can live together in harmony provided both are willing to compromise. To reach an accord, dogs have to be trained to respect shoes, while shoes must agree to limit all provocative missile test launches over disputed borders.


Shoes and Socks – A Taste Test, Part 2: Socks

Any dog serving prison time for chewing shoes will eagerly admit that socks served as a gateway drug. And that he’s a Good Boy!

Budleigh steals socks. That isn’t his fault. We Giants failed him. As did society. And the apparel industry. He no longer chews them as he did during his house-pet-in-training probationary apprenticeship. Just, ya’ know, sort of steals them. For the kicks, man! The thrill! School is for squares, daddio!


Shoes and Socks: A Taste Test

Dogs use their teeth to explore the world much the way we use the Internet. A dog’s mouth and tongue serve as router and modem, while its excretory system works like Comcast.


“Happy Father’s Day! Love, your pack.”

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Grooming Tips, Part 3: The Drying Game

Witty Physics would have us believe that drying a dog is the same as wetting a dog, only backwards, if you follow the math.

Apparently, Physics has never dried a dog. Or owned one. Or been on a date since 1990. So thanks anyway, Physics. We’ll take it from here.


Grooming Tips, Part 2: Bathing your Dog – The New Waterboarding

Understanding the challenges of bath time, the pet care industry has developed an array of shampoo products that ease the torment faced by your dog and the unpaid college intern you’ve assigned to the task. The most appropriate soap should be one formulated to lather well while convincing your dog that he’s done nothing wrong.


Grooming Tips: Best Practices for You, Your Dog, and Your Fingers

Anyone who has safely landed a powered aircraft in severe weather without the benefit of instrumentation, aircrew or their vision has all the skills needed to successfully groom a dog.


Drawing a Line in the Sand in your Bed

In a perfect world, dogs don’t sleep on the bed. But we don’t live in a perfect world. We live in Budleigh’s.


Black Dogs: Danger…or Menace?

Black dogs tend to be passed over for adoption because they are associated with evil. Yet studies have proved that relatively few actively worship Satan.


Poisoning your Dog: A Thanksgiving Primer

With all the dangers to pets posed by ingesting turkey skin, chocolates, raisins, sweets, and other holiday fare, it’s a wonder that dogs celebrate Thanksgiving at all.


A Night in the Box: Crate Training the Convict Dog

How different the rules for crate training a dog would be had the Constitution of the United States been signed by Thomas Jefferson’s hound, Monroe Doctrine.


Adopting a Dog: It Takes a Village. Also a Pooper Scooper

We rescued a terrier, although why anyone would is beyond me.

Terriers are what dingos strive to be – wild dogs semi-domesticated because there’s something in it for them. Terriers are the The Joker of the animal kingdom.