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Puppy Eyes Reflect Love

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This is how I'll always see my dog Cleo, reflecting the love she sees coming from my eyes. By now she'd been with us four years and she had fully embraced my devotion and commitement to her. This photo is from 2009 during a moment when we had just returned to pick her up from a visit with Team Cleo.

She is telling us that she had a good time but that she was ready to go home. We happily complied.

 

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Senior dogs are smart adding stretches during play

Senior dogs sneak stretches during playtime. My dog is a clever girl. During a burst of play with her squeaky crab toy, she slid a quick shoulder stretch in at the end.

Smart dog!

How my dog got even cuter after losing her vision

My dog Cleo has always been clumsy. She is a big girl who never hid her excitement. Her joy could be demonstrated by leaning hard into your legs or racing toward a toy to squeak it. It wasn't that many years ago when her joy at your arrival home would be expressed by her suddenly tearing off down the hall to our bedroom, then knocking our mattress half off its frame, before racing back down the hall to land against the couch, that proceeded to be slammed against the window as it received her 85 lbs like a catcher's mitt.

Her doggy joy at my homecoming is a highlight of my day. Sure back then I was afraid she'd break our couch or worse, go hurtling over it and out the window. But it is just so cute that she couldn't hide how happy she was that I had walked in the front door. 

"Express Yourself" Cleo squeaks her song of love

Reading Assistance Dogs

Animal assistance therapy dog, at your service. No really, I can hear kids reading inside.

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Celebrate National (Grouchy) Puppy Day

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Some of our local rescues 

• Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society
• Furry Friends Rescue
• Grateful Dogs Rescue
  The oldest all-breed rescue group in San Francisco
• Marin Humane Society
• Muttville: Senior Dog Rescue
• Northern California Family Dog Rescue
• Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA
• Pets In Need
• Rocket Dog Rescue
• San Francisco SPCA
• Stray from the Heart
• Urban Cat Project

Today is about sharing all these amazing groups who try to save abandoned puppies, educate people about how bad puppy mills are and work hard to get pet stores to stop selling pets.

52 Weeks of Cleo Project: Week 8

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It's week eight of celebrating fabulous senior dogs! In case you missed it we decided 2013 would be a great year to offer you a cute photo of me every week. Enjoy and sign up for our mailing list if you want to get goodies delivered to your inbox, and follow GrouchyPuppy on Instagram!

Spring forward this weekend

Spring Forward with Cleo

How does a dog spend her day?

Source: Sharon & Cleo as GrouchyPuppy on Pinterest

 

7:00 AM - Wake up from bed. Move to floor in front of doorway...read more

Know the signs: Diabetic Shock in Dogs

We have a dog with diabetes. She was diagnosed over a year ago. I imagine compared to many, our experience has been relatively easy. We identified the symptoms fairly quickly. Our vet was fast with test results. Her insulin dosage was pretty seamless to adjust. The internet, friends and colleagues are a wealth of resources and encouragement. I definitely felt that we responded to this significant medical change in Cleo more quickly and effectively than our experience with her allergies.

However, for every one person who knows about diabetes in dogs, there are many who do not. They usually say, "Dogs can get diabetes? I had no idea!" That moment can stop you short. It makes me think of the dogs who are discarded at shelters, or whose life is cut short because their person had this reaction.

When your dog is a member of the family, and you fuss over their care the way many Americans do, it is hard to step back sometimes and remember that you are not infallible. Your dog clearly loves you, responding to all the thoughtful care-giving and attention you provide. But unless you are a vet, or vet tech, your training is from the point of view of a concerned and loving guardian. Like most of us.

 

Caring for a diabetic senior dog

Give Fearlessly | What older dogs can teach a person

If dogs are already amazing creatures, imagine the benefits of a senior dog in your life.