Dog obstacle course

If you are at familiar with dog sports then you would have seen a dog obstacle course. The sport is more commonly known as agility. Below is a photo of a typical layout of obstacles found on an agility course. Many of them you can make yourself or adapt another piece of equipment for use in the course. Children's playground equipment like slides, titter totters and pull up bars can all be adapted for the sport in one way or another. The tunnel takes a bit more ingenuity to make but they are also found in pet stores now.

The dog park

Today we have a guest blogger:

Guest post written by Stuart Robbins

Part of the reason that I chose the location of my apartment is because it’s right beside of a dog park . That’s really hard to come by in a city like this.

Most days I’ll take my dog there at least once and catch up with neighbors who also bring their dogs there while Oscar plays around and does his business. It’s open to the public rather than just the neighborhood so it gets pretty crowded sometimes. A few days ago I was standing by the fence watching Oscar play with a few other dogs, when I got the feeling that someone was watching me. I hadn’t seen anyone that I knew when we came to the park so I just brushed it off until my next-door neighbor came up and told me he had been calling my name for five minutes trying to get my attention.

Except that was just one of several instances where that had been happening lately. So after that I called my brother and asked him his opinion of hearing aid brands he’s used. He suggested a few and I looked up miracle ear hearing aid prices and thought they were pretty reasonable. I think I’m going to make a decision pretty soon and buy some so I won’t miss out on seeing friends randomly.

Wow, great blog news

I just had to share this with everyone. In about 10 days this blog will be 2 years old!!! In dog years that is full grown. If you were around when I first started this blog almost 2 years ago, then you would know that it was started out as an example of how to start, monetize and promote a blog. I can honesty say that it has worked out great. This is my 198th post.

In that time the blogger format has changed and yet I still like the clean look of this blog as it is. I might change it in the near future but for now just plain white with just a few ads are fine. For those of you who are interested, the most searched word that leads people to this blog is "saluki."

Life insurance for your high valued dog

I was visiting some of the many dog breeding message boards today and one of the questions that came up was life insurance for an expensive litter of puppies. The breeder had 8 puppies that were valued at over $2K each and she was looking for a company that offered life insurance for dogs. Now she was NOT looking for medical/vet insurance for the pups but mortality insurance. Many people gave her some suggestions and she called them all. Most of the companies were out of business or were limited to livestock and not domestic animals.

So I went on a search to see what I could find. Boy, did I find a lot of mis-information out there. Many bloggers were simply not informed at all about the difference of the many types of dog, livestock and pet insurance policies there are. Most were confusing insurance related to vet care should the dog get sick or injured not mortality insurance should the dog die. Their poorly written article might also be an attempt at affiliate marketing for life insurance leads but they are misleading their readers. What I did find is that there is a very limited number of companies that do insure show dogs or prize breeding dogs.

If you are looking for such insurance I suggest you start on the AKC website and your own breed club website. They often have the best resources for breeders of high quality show dogs.