Tips for Teaching Your Kids to Respect and Care for Their First Dog

It's finally time for you to consider bringing a dog into the house for your kids. How exciting! But before you bring a new four-legged friend home, it's important to make sure your kids have a firm grasp on dog care and how to treat it respectfully. Planning to buy a dog? Here is a great blog to read before buying a dog! Few Tips for Teaching Your Kids to Respect and Care for Their First Dog: Devise a Meal Schedule Together One of the most important parts of caring for a new dog is deciding who will have the responsibility of feeding them and what times of day they'll need to be fed. For example, if you're bringing home a puppy, they'll need to eat four meals a day until they're over 12 weeks old. It might seem like you're making the act of bringing a dog home more special by … [Read more...]

Abused Animals Will Love My Kid

We have only one TV in our house.  Wait, that's a lie. We installed one in our kitchen last night but it won't have cable.  It will only play music and movies on it.  This one TV has recently caused TD, our five year-old, some considerable emotional pain and suffering. In our quest to find a show that we could all watch at the same time we settled on TLC's 'The Next Great Baker'. The girl loves her some baking shows.  Cupcake Wars?  She would probably buy the box set.  My point?  At some point during 'The Next Great Baker' episode nine hundred and eleventy -the one where Buddy asks the bakers to make a cake that looks like man-eating flesh virus.  It's a classic-  one of those commercials played.  You know what I'm talking about.  … [Read more...]