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Dogs love to run and romp with other pooches at the dog parks. But there can be some serious problems at these parks–dogs can get hurt! There have been too many times when I have been at a dog park and there have been aggressive dogs that claim the whole park as their territory. People bring small dogs or puppies to the park with big dogs, and the little pooches get hurt. Owners come to socialize with other humans, while their dogs run wild, and do not pay attention to their pups to discipline them. And, there are people who steal dogs from the dog parks.

Sit Means Sit, a dog training company, is conducting FREE dog park etiquette classes in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is a terrific idea and is much needed. Hopefully, Sit Means Sit will offer these classes all over the U.S., because our dogs have so much fun at dog parks and some owners need to learn proper etiquette.

Want to know what goes through a dog’s mind? Today you can buy the movie “Hachiko: A Dog’s Story.” This movie stars Richard Gere and an adorable Akita. “Hachiko: A Dog’s Story” is based on a true story about a professor (played by Gere), who rescues an abandoned dog. Gere and the Akita form an unbreakable bond. When tragedy strikes Gere, we find out just how much a dog loves his owner.

A movie about a dog told from a dog’s perspective, “Hachiko: A Dog’s Story” sounds like an interesting, must-see flick! Stay tuned for my review of this movie.

Author Monica Holloway was devastated to learn that her adorable, brilliant three-year-old son was autistic.  Sure, he was different and special, but isn’t every child, in his own way?  Wills could talk about trains and planes for hours at a time, but ran screaming if the smallest (to us) thing upset his well-ordered world. Monica reacted to the diagnosis in a perfectly logical way: she bought a big fish tank and some fish. And that was only the start of their growing menagerie.

Several hermit crabs, hamsters, and a rabbit later, they began talking about puppies. They researched dogs for months, ultimately deciding that nothing would do but a female Golden Retriever puppy. They finally found the perfect puppy in time for Christmas. The golden ball of fluff they called “Cowboy” was about to change their lives in ways they couldn’t imagine.

Cowboy’s impulsive, energetic, inquisitive antics pushed Wills to explore a world that he’d been terrified to experience. Every little accomplishment that Wills made was a huge step forward for this very special little boy. His parents marveled at the things he did “because Cowboy needed my help,” like actually getting into their swimming pool for the first time and “helping Cowboy learn to swim.”  The bathtub changed from being a torture chamber to a delightfully bubbly play area “because Cowboy needed a bath.”

The changes that Cowboy wrought in Wills’s life were nothing short of miraculous. And when Cowboy needed his family as much as they needed him, Wills learned even more life lessons—painful, difficult lessons that opened his world even wider.

It’s often said that every child should have a dog—a puppy, if possible. He’ll learn responsibility, learn to think of another life before his own, and will learn to love more deeply than he ever thought possible. Cowboy taught Wills more about life and love than all the books and teachers in the world could ever impart to him.

Monica candidly shares their lives with us, unfolding an incredible story as we laugh and cry with her from beginning to end. This is truly a love story of a very special boy and his incredibly loving parents, and the puppy who changed their lives forever.

It’s time for Kate Middleton to get a jewelry box…or else a good pair of gloves. Prince William’s girlfriend reportedly had to “search through dog poop” after her dog ate a pair of earrings gifted to her by William for her 28th birthday.

She left the antique studs on her nightstand where her dog Otto probably got hold of them.

“She knew William had spent a lot of money on the earrings and she was embarrassed that she had mislaid them,” a friend of Middleton’s told the Daily Mail UK.

Middleton ended up finding the earrings in Otto’s “business,” but Prince William graciously offered to replace them. What a gent!

~huffingtonpost.com