Have a great Christmas Day everyone

I have treats for my dog and the day will be spent at home. No worries about putting up with noxious smoke from uncle Bert's Padron cigars or having to deal with endless guilt about leaving my dog at home while I go out and visit others and their pets. This day I will be selfish and enjoy my home, my dog and my time. Next year might be different but that is how I feel today.

Enjoy this day how YOU want to spend it. Give your dog a hug and have a Merry Christmas.

Blog updates

If you have not visited my new page called "Resources and Links" please take a look at it. It has lots of links to some very informative articles on dog care. There is also a nice link to a blog that has coupons and free stuff for pets in general.

So how do you like the new look to the blog? I am enjoying adding some extra widgets and that extra page. If I can think of another page to add I will do that, any ideas?

I would like to get some more of you to leave comments, of course spammers can move on especially the ones who leave links to gaming sites and pushing diet pills or some other junk that is not related in any way with dogs.

Service dogs

We all know that dogs have helped those who are handicapped. From the Guide Dogs for the Blind to the service dogs for those with mental disabilities, dogs are invaluable to those that need their help.

Something that I have often wondered is if a specially trained dog is covered as health insurance expense like durable medical equipment or does disability insurance cover the expense of a service dog?

If you have a service dog I would like to know if your health insurance covered the cost or not. Leave a comment.

Dog breed names

Some names of dog breeds are obvious, they describe what the dog was bred to do. Retrievers and pointers help hunters with their tasks and sheepdogs help with herding sheep. Their breed names often have another descriptive name added to the dog's breed to differentiate the breed from similar breeds of dogs. That other word might be a location, city or country name or the name of the person who help originate the breed.

That being said, now I have to wonder about those made up at the spur of the moment dog breed names. You know what I am talking about, those names that often smack of crosses and mutts. The Cock-a-poos, the Labradoodles, the Peek-a-poos and many others. Oddly enough the Labradoodle is an actual breed of dog that was developed in Australia for work as a guide dog.

When someone came up with the name for the Labradoodle Dogs, I wonder if they could have come up with a better breed name that did not sound like a type of cookie or a breed mix. Something like the "Australian Curl" or the "Aussie Wavy" would have been better. Since the breed has been around for decades now maybe a name change is in order.