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Posted on May 3, 2018May 6, 2018

Kansas City Swag and Swagger: Roadtripping with a 50+ pound pooch

Last week Sophie and I scrubbed ourselves up and headed off to BlogPaws 2018 in Kansas City.  As a proud double-nominee for The Rufus Files, we needed to make sure…

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Posted on July 5, 2017July 2, 2018

Rufus (partially) Conquers Mt Bierstadt

My friend Morriah invited me on a hike today and after much hemming and hawing on my part, I agreed to go. Initially we were to hike Square Top Mountain. Morriah…

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Posted on June 5, 2017April 23, 2018

Leashes: Choose one & use one

Last week I took Rufus to City Park for a training stroll. It was a gorgeous Sunday so of course much of Denver showed up as well. This was ideal. I…

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Posted on May 31, 2017April 23, 2018

Taking Your Dog On A Hike

I count myself among the extremely fortunate for having so many beautiful hiking trails nearby. From Denver I can drive a mere thirty minutes away and find myself near the…

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Posted on May 23, 2017April 24, 2018

Testing out the Swag, Part I

We have all emerged exhausted but pretty much in tact after our adventurous weekends. I went to Myrtle Beach, SC for the annual BlogPaws Convention while Sophie and Rufus chose…

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Posted on April 20, 2017April 24, 2018

71.5 Pounds of Love

Yesterday gave us one of our many vet visits. My hands were full holding Rufus and giving him treats to keep him distracted. The vet is a terrifying place for him…

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Posted on February 23, 2017February 27, 2017

What shiny teeth you have

Money has sprung up as an issue while I attempt to live off of writing, so a few items must be put on hold. Since my car has become kind of…

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Posted on January 13, 2017January 14, 2017

Training progress

I applied some of our new training methods today. Rufus seems to be taking to them well. Even Sophie, a notorious puller on the leash walked lovely at heal, so…

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Posted on January 13, 2017January 14, 2017

A Terrible Teen

I saw Eric the trainer today with Rufus. It occurred in the afternoon of an already stressful dog day. The day began when Rufus began his wake up ritual, and…

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Posted on January 9, 2017January 28, 2017

The Quick Death of Toys

    Toys don’t last long with Rufus. He destroys them in under twenty minutes. Mr. Dinosaur experienced this in about ten minutes of his relationship with Rufus. First a…

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Posted on January 4, 2017January 8, 2017

Hot lava floor

The dogs love playing hot lava floor in the sense that they’ll sleep on anything but the floor. Usually if I’m in my favorite reading chair upstairs with the ottoman,…

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Posted on December 13, 2016January 8, 2017

Gross carpet stain

When I tried cleaning Rufus’ pee stain on the carpet I think I mis-used the Bac-Out by Biokleen. The directions say to saturate the stain with this, and instead I…

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Posted on December 8, 2016June 1, 2017

I always tell him he’d look good in anything

It’s less than fifteen degrees out, and the doodle-bug is having a blast running around the back yard, coat-free. I think I’ll take his respectable Republican cloth coat back to the…

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Posted on December 7, 2016January 8, 2017

The first night, part 2

Jumping back to April… The crate was not working that first night since Mr Whiny Pants (not his real name) didn’t like it, and I needed to get some sleep.…

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Posted on December 7, 2016January 8, 2017

Coat update

The first coat I got Rufus was pretty bad-ass looking, as dog coats go. It sort of had a tough-guy thing going. Sadly, it was too big and Rufus also…

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