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Tag: Loki

Now All of Switzerland Knows My Dogs are Smarter than I Am

The day started innocently enough. We stopped by the Tulip Festival again this week so I can try one more time to get a photo of Juno's yellow eyes next to some yellow tulips.

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Tempting Fate

  Tempting Fate: That's what Mr. Wild Dingo calls this series of photos.  

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La Dolce Vita

Our cultural trainer and advisor recently emailed me to follow up on how we were doing.  She was pleased to hear I had started cooking and finding my creativity again. She was writing from Milan where she had taken time to appreciate "the sweet life" and "la bella figura." She herself had been inspired to "refuse to live ugly"--in the […]

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Joie de Vivre

I call this crackey. The Swiss call it "joie de vivre."

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Look Who's Woo-in' Now

Looks like Juno found her Inner Woo!

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To Leash or Not To Leash?

Mr. Wild Dingo and I paid a visit to the Foundation de l'Hermitage last weekend. It's a 19th century estate with a small art collection of 800 or so paintings, mostly impressionists. There were a few Degas and some Picasso and a whole bunch of artists I have never heard of.

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Exercising Balance

My whole life, balance has been a recurring theme. And in dog handling, it's no different. Green grass and rolling hills. Tons of places for dogs to safely run.  It's what I envisioned when Mr. Wild Dingo proposed moving to Switzerland.

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Please Don't Call Me by My Real Name, It Destroys the Reality I'm Trying to Create

"Do  I look silly in these jodhpurs? I could take them off if you'd like."

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For the Ladies

Loki and I want to thank everyone who was worried about his broken wag. But fear not. It's only temporary. In fact, his tail is already at half-mast and half-wag. He's still sensitive to touch in that area, but full-mast tail motion is likely by Sunday. Let's just hope he didn't have a set back when he […]

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Limp Tails are Heavier than Broken Hearts

THIS is my magnificent Formosan/German Shepherd dog in all his gorgeousity. Notice the natural position of his tail, held at full-mast 95% of his waking hours. THIS is my sad Formosan/German Shepherd dog with a Limp Tail:

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