Ever heard of Short Stack Publishing?

If not, they have a really neat series of books called the “How to Handles”.

One of the books in the series is called How to Handle Living with Your Dog.

It’s really informative advice on how to deal with your puppy, training them, different breeds and pedigrees of dogs (including “mutts”), health, nutrition, diet and exercise…basically, anything you’d like and need to know…

Basically, you’ll learn how to coexist with your pooch every day and in all situations.

Socializing a dog is very important – yet another thing that’s included…

Written by Winkie Spiers – great name, eh – it’s an all-inclusive guide to your dog – an “owner’s manual”, if you like!

Be sure to check out the home of the How to Handle Series…

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I hope you enjoyed this Dog Product on Terrier Lover! Until next time…

Love Your Terrier,

Kimberly Edwards

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My mom did a marvelous blog post, that will be 3 parts, on her beautiful, little “Precious Princess”…

She is a Phantom Fringe Face miniature schnauzer, and she is soooo sweet!

The best word I can describe her with is “scamp”!

Photo Left: Kimberly Edwards (me) & Precious as a pup

She is so active, busy, alert and sweet all at the same time!

She loves to rough-house with my 3 miniature schnauzers too!

I’m going to give you the link here to read about Precious: My Precious Princess – The Miniature Schnazuer: Part #1

Mom is correct when saying she endeared herself to us…when nursing a sick puppy back to health, you can’t Read the rest of this entry »

This is very true, especially if you don’t give an older dog the needed training to change their behavior.

Photo right: Kaptain and Kurious as a puppy

It may be really cute to see your puppy have fun, ripping up a useless, harmless newspaper…Right?

It is for that moment in time, but when that behavior rears it’s ugly head when your terrier is older, it’s not nearly as cute or funny!

They need dog obedience training in some way, shape or form. You must be firm and realize that the things that you wish them not to do as an adult dog, they CANNOT do, even if it’s cute, as a puppy.

Terriers can be especially naughty with digging and ripping apart pillows, blankets and cushions…Most of them were bred to be ratters and hunters…you can’t blame their instincts…You just need to curb them a bit.

For Example: Our Kaptain, when he was a baby of about 3 months old or so, he got a hold of a newspaper and started to shred it…

He was frolicking around, pouncing on it…barking at it! We were all watching and laughing…It was way too cute!

However, as Kappy grew, so did his appetite for paper! Anything paper…

Newspapers, computer paper, cardboard boxes, Kleenex boxes, tissues! Whatever!

Photo left: Starring Kaptain as “The Paper Shredder”

He usually only did this when we would leave the house and he was by himself…

We’d try to “paper proof” the whole house, but he’d always seem to find something!

One day, he got into my dad’s blueprints of their home that they needed for a court case…NOT COOL! He was in big trouble that day!

He does much better now, as he gets a serious time out and a scolding when we return to a big mess. He hates not being a part of the pack…Everyone else is having fun, greeting us, and he’s in time out! It’s utter torture to him.

Some dogs wouldn’t care about that so much…It depends upon the dog.

I’ve found a great training course for dog owners to help them curb their dog’s disobedience problems in 30 days or less – You must check it out: Puppy-N-Dog-Secrets.com. It’s from a man that formerly trained dogs for Disney! That’s right! I’d say he definitely knows what he’s talking about!

Most dogs have a vice that they’d love to get into trouble with, but for the most part, they love their humans much more and respect them to the point that it deters them from misbehaving.

Please, have your puppy trained, or train your old dogs some new tricks…It will make your lives together so much more fulfilling!

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I hope you enjoyed this Dog Training post on Terrier Lover! Until next time…

Love Your Terrier,

Kimberly Edwards

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Terrier Newsflash:
I am sincerely touched by receiving such a cheerful award. Tokens of appreciation like this make your endeavors worthwhile.

I put a lot of love into this site, and my other sites, that it’s amazing when someone notices.

Also, it’s a wonderful thing to know that there are so many others out there that love their dogs, or pets, as much as I do, and who enjoy participating to make this site what it is!

I want to thank all of you who frequent this site, or for those of you who just stop by from time to time! I’m glad you enjoy it!

I want to thank my friend over at that fantastic site she blogs on Dog Cents Today for this “Lemonade Cheers Award”! I guess this is quite a Cheery blog, if I do say so!

She also stated that I should pass it on to ten people I think are well deserved bloggers and should also receive this cheerful award, but I must admit I have many more friends who also are bloggers that deserve this award.

However, since I could not place all of your names on this post because it would fill up the whole page, as there are so many of you, I just want you to know that this award also goes out to you! If you wish to copy it and place it on your blogs, then do so for you all deserve it!

Be sure they place a link back to my blog when they mention where they got their award from. So please mention The Terrier Lover Blog.

So, now without further adieu, the winners for best Lemonade Cheers Awards are:

1. Ingrid Turner Today – Life and love of a grandma and everything in between!

2. Life, Love & the Pursuit of Happyness – From a man that loves life, his family and has so much going on that is great fun and great information!

3. Sweets Foods – Thanks to Gera, food and life is a little bit sweeter!

4. Getting Unstuck – Chantel Simmons – A dear friend I’ve known since kindergarten, who is now an accomplished author and writer at such publications as Elle, TV guide, and now editor-in-chief at Elevate. Great info on beauty, fashion, decor, shopping and everything in between.

5. Blonde By Nature – Cassie is a sweet girl I met online in all of those Blogger places, who is actually originally from my hometown and played softball with me! Wow…What a small world!

6. Dog Lover – That’s right…there’s more of us out there!!! LOL

7. A Dog Named Fred – Too cute! All about this blogger’s dog named Fred, who is a Jack Russell Terrier/Patterdale Terrier mix…Awesome!

8. Boston Terrier Photo Blog – If you’re looking for some Boston Terrier comfort photos, here they are! Beautiful pooches!

9. Great Scots Magazine – A blog that “Celebrates Scottish Terriers and their people”. It’s a fabulous array of everything Scottish Terrier!

10. Doggies.com Dog Blog – All things Dog, all the time! News, product reviews, breed guides, health, nutrition, training and everything in between!

Now, I do Read the rest of this entry »

We have recently discovered that ALL of our dogs like pet beds.

We had a dog pet for Knosey when we were in Dallas a few trips ago (we called it “Knosey Bed”), as we rehab houses and she needs a clean and comfy place to rest. It’s cute, but not too classy though. It was a good price and bought for quick convenience.

So, we brought it out of storage for Kurious and our drive home from Dallas to Niagara Falls.

We hoped it would keep her warm in the back seat and that she would like it, as it was a cold trip up for Christmas.

She immediately jumped in it, and stayed there for 28 hours…We had to coax her out of it to go pee-pee outside…LOL

Now that we’ve been visiting home in Niagara Falls over the past 2 months, ALL of the dogs have been taking full advantage of the dog bed in front of the fireplace, instead of just the blanket we always have out…They jump at the opportunity to “steal” the bed from each other if one dog gets up for something…Another one will plop down in the bed!  Too cute!

So, since we’ll be bringing our dogs back down to Dallas, mom is convinced she needs a bed for Precious and Sugar when we’re not here…In fact, she wants to maybe get two for the both of them.

I had her look through hundreds of them, and she was unimpressed because she wanted a beautiful bed that would possibly match her furniture, until we found the luxury pet beds.

I had to share it with you, as this is the one she chose out of over 8,000 beds! The Grand Prize Winner!

It’s so beautiful! Here it is: Read the rest of this entry »