Category: Responsibility

  • Trippin’

    Today is Memorial Day, which is considered the unofficial beginning of summer here in the United States: Schools close, swimming pools open, and middle-class families start traveling, which makes it a good time to talk about traveling with dogs. If you plan to fly with your pet … don’t. It’s stressful at best and dangerous…

  • Bottomless Lakes

    We took the girls hiking at Bottomless Lakes State Park in Roswell today. The weather was warmer this afternoon than it’s been all spring — it was nearly 80 by the time we reached the park — so I made sure to take plenty of water along for the girls. My favorite way to carry…

  • Training around disabilities

    Clients often come to me for training to make their own lives easier: They want their dogs to stop some nuisance behavior that’s creating hassles (chewing, housebreaking issues), hazards (pulling, jumping) or headaches (digging, nuisance barking). Others are concerned about their dogs’ safety and want to work on things like reactivity or recall. Those are…

  • Tragic and infuriating

    Stanley Hartt moved to Tucumcari a couple of years ago. This past November, he wrote a column for the Quay County Sun, talking about how much he loved this community. In that column, he talked about all the problems plaguing the rest of the country and contrasted them with the quiet solace of going for…