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Does It Really Take Luck to Get Great Dog Portraits?

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Does it take loads of luck to capture epic portraits of your dog? Or is it more akin to skill? First, what is luck?Luck is defined as success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one’s own actions. Then what is skill?Skill is the ability to use one’s knowledge effectively and readily in execution or performance.  In a sense, they are on opposing sides, nearly opposites to each other. Pure luck shows up as gambling, while pure skill lands in the game of chess. The rest of the encounters throughout our lives land somewhere on the gradient. (Google […]

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Happy Valentine’s Day with Kisses from Blue

/ Dogs & Lifestyle

Happy Valentine’s Day!  Yes we are 4 days early, but who can resist celebrating the holiday of love especially with a puppy or dog you love? We can’t! This is Blue’s very first Valentine’s Day! He’s 7.5 months old, sort of a teenager at times (selective hearing & command requests denied) and other times still a bumbling puppy at others. The biting is waning, his self settling is becoming better and he still loves the Young & Restless chime at the end of the show that signals lunchtime. There are days he drives me batty and I’d like to trade

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Have a Golden day, its National Golden Retriever Day!

/ Dogs & Lifestyle

Have a Golden day as today is National Golden Retriever Day! I know, one of those huh I didn’t know it was a national day day haha! National Golden Retriever Day started in 2012 by Kristen Shroyer as a tribute to Golden Retrievers around the country after the loss of her golden Quincy.  Some neat facts about goldens: As of 2021 they were #3 in most popular dog breeds in the US! The Golden was first seen at a British dog show in 1908 and were listed as Flat Coats (Golden) [another source mentions in 1906 they were in the Retriever

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Blue’s First Christmas aka Christmas with a puppy!

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Showing up on Sunday formally, celebrated on multiple days if not the month long, it’s Christmas! Wrapped presents with fun surprises inside, the tree decked with lights and ornaments and a 6 month old puppy, huzzah! If this is your puppy’s first Christmas here are some things to remember for Christmas day: Unwrapping presents is fun but… don’t let your puppy eat the paper! Overall it probably won’t hurt them, but if you don’t want other paper things to be nommed on, then keep wrapping paper away.  Leash your puppy as guests are entering or leaving, especially if your pup’s

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Humans Belong in Dog Photos Too! Here’s Why

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The bond we have with our dogs goes deep, etched back into the seams of ancestry. In fact the dog & human bond may have led to some epic evolutionary events in our shared history.  Backwards we go into time, not as far as the dinosaurs, but around the time the hominoids descended from the trees. These early hominoids transitioned into upright positions freeing their hands for use of tools for hunting. Dogs didn’t exist, though their wolf ancestors did.  Time transitioned, the wolf becoming part of human life & transitioning into dogs as we know them in modern age.

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