Some days it seems that way! Seven years. That's 47 in dog years. That's how long we have been doing what we love: hanging out with dogs. I remember the day that Kyle came home and had trained one of his first dogs. He went on and on about how this worked, this didn't and he started writing a training plan. The excitement was palpable. What we didn't know it what that excitement would turn into. The idea of a dog daycare in an area where there weren't a lot of those wa

It’s not often you’re given the opportunity to pause life in its tracks, fix all the holes and broken things and re-set. If you do get the opportunity it’s usually at a pretty crappy price. Like a baseball sized (of course!) tumor in your colon. As many of you knew, I hadn’t been feeling well for about… the past year. In July I FINALLY decided to ask a Dr. why I was too weak to make it through a four hour shift but I already knew the answer. Many of your dogs knew too and I

Each year starts off with resolutions and decisions for change, for most people. In our house we really don't believe in resolutions - not out loud per se. But this last year was incredibly hard for our house and many others we know too. We experienced some major losses. In August our basset hound, Barnes, was sick and we had to make the difficult decision to put him down. It had been coming for awhile, he had a seizure (or two) a few months before, he was already blind a