It’s Summer and it’s hot. So you’ll have to excuse me if all I do today is nap on the bed in the cool cool air conditioning. That is all. 
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Friday Fetch: Life Vests for Dogs
Now that the hot hot Summer has officially started I’ve been thinking about taking more trips to my local lake. Up until now I’ve never worn a doggie flotation device – not for lack of wanting to – but because I did not have direct access to a credit card (ahem…mom).
But have no fear! Mom ordered me my very own life vest just the other day, and while I wait for my new purchase to arrive in the mail I figured I’d share a round-up of some of the Pet Life Vests that are on the market currently.
I ended up ordering the Kyjen Outward Hound Life Jacket
Now here’s a round-up of a few more life vests for dogs that I thought looked just as swim worthy as the one that ended up in my cart.
Ruffwear K-9 Float Coat from Cabela’s
Paws Aboard Designer Dog Life Vest
Dog Life Jacket from Waterdoggy
Safe swimming everyone!
Dachshund Certified Therapy Dog
If you follow along with my adventures on Facebook, then you probably already heard that on Sunday I became a Certified Therapy Dog! Yippee!
For the past 6 weeks I have been taking classes at the Dog Training Center of Chester County to prepare to take my Canine Good Citizen and Therapy Dog International tests. One of my goals this year was to pass both tests and my Mom was super happy when I did so on my very first try!
As you can see in my testing video I was SUPER excited to be performing. What can I say, I’m just an overly happy guy! I may have forgotten a bit of my heeling a few times, but I was just so pumped to be meeting new people.
One of the hardest parts of the Therapy Dog test is to walk past a pile of cookies and not eat them! Do you know how hard that is when your nose is 2″ off the ground!? I was very tempted to eat those cookies when I walked by them in the beginning of my test, but when my Mom said leave it I happily obliged and didn’t eat a single one. (Phew, close call, because mom said I would have failed had I eaten one).
Even though I’ve passed my tests, my training will never be done. Mom and I continue to take agility classes and I know I’ll never stop learning and improving. I’m excited to see what comes next for me – I just hope that for any future tests they let me wear my Super Hero Cape – because we all know I look WAY cooler with my cape on!
If you would like to check out all the requirements to pass a CGC and TDI test, you can check it out here.
P.S. Thanks to all my pals on my Facebook page who congratulated me on passing my tests, you guys totally make me blush!
Deer Hunter
See that look on my face, that’s the look of a tough as nails bounty deer hunter.
A few days ago there was an intrusion in my backyard, and although I may not “shoot to kill”, I still pack a lot of Ammo.
And by Ammo I mean lungs of steel! That deer didn’t stand a chance.
I definitely showed that deer who’s boss!
And afterwards I had a little swagger to my step. Ok, well maybe it was more of a hop & skip – but you get the idea.
Friday Fetch: ChillSpot – cooling pet bed
Summer is here and the hot hot days in Pennsylvania are just around the corner for me. Being the farm dog that I am I enjoy spending most of my time outside, but when the mid-day heat really gets blazing I find myself looking for the coolest place to get out of the sun.
That’s why when I came across ChillSpot I knew they had come up with a great product to help dogs like me beat the Summer heat.
Chillspot is a durable, portable, 24″ x 36″ cooling dog bed. It comes with four reusable Chillpods that can be put in your freezer overnight and used during the day to cool your Chillspot bed.
ChillSpot is the only cooling bed that has an insulated base, allowing it to stay cold hours longer than others when out in warm weather.
You can fetch your own ChillSpot cooling pet bed here for $169.
Reunited
You may remember that my kitty pal Spider and I had started a search party for our friend Cricket the Barn cat over a month ago. When Cricket went missing (and stayed missing) for over a month Spider and I feared the worst. We hoped that she had found a new home, but despite flyers and drive-bys at the SPCA we had no clue what happened to our pal.
About to give up hope on the return of our friend, on one last stop in at the SPCA someone mentioned that there were some cats in the quarantine room that we may not have seen. As luck would have it, one of those cats was Cricket! Someone from a neighborhood near the farm (but surprisingly not that near) had found her and turned her over to the SPCA nearly 4 weeks earlier, and since then she had sat in the quarantine area because of a goopy eye (which she has been known to have).
I was so thrilled to have my pal back, and I think she was relieved to be home once again.
So Cricket, please no more wondering off – we love you too much!
P.S. Cricket and Spider have appointments to be microchipped just like I am! No more missing kitties on my watch.
Friday Fetch: Filson Gear for Rugged Dogs
I came across Filson, a leading outfitter for outdoor enthusiasts, and I was super excited to find that not only do they outfit our humans, but they outfit the dogs too! Being a farm dog myself I found their products to have the perfect amount of ruggedness.
Here is a few of my favorite items from the Filson Dog Collection:
You can fetch more rugged dog items from Filson.
Graduation Day
You might think that during my 3-day weekend for memorial day that most of my time would be spend lounging around and relaxing. But if you are a regular reader of my blog, then you know that this is simply not going to fly around my house – and you better believe that I packed as many adventures in as I could! By the end of the weekend I was so tired I even slept through dinner!
I kicked off the weekend by celebrating my Aunt Laurel’s graduation from the University of Delaware.
Even though I physically didn’t get to attend Laurel’s graduation as a certified Athletic Trainer I was there in spirit as mom texted me photos from the event so I could watch from home.
But I did get to wear my blue and gold proudly for the graduation party held at the farm the next day.
I kept busy all day and played a whole bunch of yard games with the party goers.
Cornhole is my new favorite, and I’m fairly certain that I was the only one playing properly. Winning!
And just like any function on the family farm, the magical ponies unicorns made their appearance as the graduate was made to participate in an embarrassing obstacle challenge.
I let my pal Trooper handle the judging this time while I manned the camera with mom, as I wasn’t going to miss a second of this train wreck.
Eventually the graduate crossed over the bridge to her future with her trusty steed Jet!
And we all cheered!
By this point in the day I was pretty zonked, but I pulled it all together, because I’m never one to miss family portrait time!
Awww how cute.
Trooper of course decided to kick off the extended family portrait with a bang!
And it was all down hill after that!
I’m so lucky to be a part of so many family adventures!
But, next time I might have to recruit a stunt double, because this pup was not prepared for the awesomeness that is GRADUATION DAY!
Jackpot
On Sunday we had an event at the farm, which meant I had lots and lots of work to do.
Not only did I have to help set up the obstacle course the day before, but I also had to make sure everything was safe for the ponies.
After all the obstacles got my approval I took to my post to judge the competition.
We had some stiff competition this time around and they were all eager and hoping to win the jackpot cash prize!
But after much deliberation on my part, there could be only one winner! And to thank me for all my hard work, I happily take payment via squeaky toys purchased with jackpot cash prizes!
P.S. Too see more photos from our event at Iron Horse Farm visit our Facebook page!
Putting Workout Barbie to Shame
Today my bestest pony pal Minnow is putting Workout Barbie to shame. See Minnow is training for a new performance for this year’s Chincoteague Pony Swim down on Chincoteague Island at the end of July.
I’ve seen it first hand and trust me, this:
…is way cooler than this:
And if that weren’t enough, Minnow is even letting me be his workout partner!
You can call me Workout Puppy!
So me and Workout Pony here are going to be spending the next couple months working on our muscles. You probably won’t even recognize us by the end of it!
So make sure you head over to the Painting Pony Blog to keep up to date on our workout progress. Minnow even promised to show me how to do push-ups soon! Yipee!