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Other Books: Bad Dog to Best Friend
Sneak Peak at Bad Dog to Best Friend
From bad dog to best friend, shelter dog Dakota's story is a must for anyone with a problem dog. From pottying all over the house, chewing and destruction, Dakota was transformed into a dog who could be trusted with full run of the house all day.
She came to us as a problem dog, abandoned by owners who couldn't handle her. When we first adopted Dakota she couldn't be left alone for a single minute. One year later we took her on a road trip and she was a model citizen. Dakota now brings us laughter and joy instead of "Don't Kill the Dog" sticky notes. Every technique we used, both the successes and the failures, we offer in the hopes of helping other dog owners.
Don't give up on your dog and abandon him to the dog pound. You have the power to save your dog from a life of revolving doors and people who don't want him. Locked inside of every bad dog is a good dog who just needs a bit of encouragement to come out. Transform your dog into Man's Best Friend as he was meant to be. Bad Dog to Best Friend will help you learn the ropes.
Bad Dog to Best Friend is full of advice and dog training tips. It gives step-by-step methods for potty training your dog, teaching your dog not to chew, weaning your dog from a crate, and you'll get the inside scoop on why your dog doesn't listen to you. Learn about the Boss Dog syndrome and how to avoid common mistakes many dog owners make. All it takes to have a good dog is to be a good teacher.
For those of you with Australian Cattle Dog/Siberian Husky mixes, there's a whole chapter devoted just to the Ausky breed. If you own an Ausky you're in for a wild ride. Learn what to expect from your Ausky and how to handle the quirks of this unusual breed.
Excerpt from the book:
The nightmare weeks (I didn't know a dog could pee that much)
Potty training a yo-yo dog is a very challenging task. They are highly stressed from being bounced from home to home and they live in fear of being abandoned again. What does a stressed dog do? It pees.
Dakota had the secondary problem of being a nervous pee-er. If she was stressed, she peed. If she was excited, she peed. If you raised your voice one iota, she peed. If she was mad at you, she peed. If the urge struck, she peed. While putting the leash on to take her out to pee, she peed - every time.
Our first weeks with Dakota were a nightmare of hauling out the carpet shampooer and scrubbing the garage floor over and over again. We hadn't expected this level of commitment having been told she was already housebroken. You'd think that the days she spent in the garage would be easier but they were actually harder and a lot more work than the carpet shampooer.
Dakota dumped incredible quantities of poop when she was in the garage and she smeared it everywhere. Every single thing in her reach would be covered with poop by the time we got home from work, including Dakota herself. Amazingly she did not do this in the house, only the garage. Maybe the cement floor of the garage felt like a dog pound to her. Maybe not being in the house where her comfort zone was stressed her out. Who knew?
In addition, Dakota barked all day according to the neighbors. Even from the garage they could hear her two houses away, and she destroyed her water bowl. We hadn't put her good water bowl in the garage with her. Instead we left her with a butter bowl full of water on our workdays. As soon as we were out of sight she tipped the bowl over and proceeded to chew the butter bowl into a million little pieces. Everything we tried to do for her was a tug of war. We tried to do something good for her and Dakota turned it into a nightmare.
Don't kill the dog (That wild bucking bronco wallowing in dog poop)
My commute to work is an hour and a half each way so after working all day and then battling traffic, I'd come home to Dakota and the alien world she'd created in the garage with everything smeared in poop. Every evening before I could relax I had to scrub down the garage floor with a long handled scrubber and a hose and then hand wash every single thing that had been within her reach. Dried dog poop on a concrete floor doesn't come off easily. It turns into a super-glued cement and no amount of scrubbing will completely remove it. At least after that first day she hadn't smeared herself with poop again which was a small consolation during those hours of unexpected garage duty.
I have no doubt whatsoever that if anybody else had adopted Dakota, she'd have quickly ended up right back at the dog pound. There aren't many people willing to commit themselves the way we had to commit to Dakota. We were utterly miserable but we were also determined. I knew what Dakota's ultimate fate would be if we failed her and it wasn't a good one. Besides, Dakota was actually great fun. She had a unique personality and you couldn't help but love her. In her good moments she was utterly charming and she made us laugh a lot.
You have to see this from Dakota's point of view. Most people don't see it from a dog's perspective and that truly helps in training your dog and understanding them. Dakota had been bounced from home to home for seven months, she had been at the dog pound twice, and we were total strangers to her. She'd only been with us a few days when we left her in the garage. She had no way of knowing that this was part of her new home and not a dog pound. She had no idea if we were coming back or if this was another abandonment. She had no reason to trust us. Everybody else who had passed through her life had let her down. Dakota had to learn to trust in her new family unit and this would take time.
So off I'd go to work leaving my husband a sticky note: "Don't kill the dog!" Being the first one home he had to encounter this wild-eyed bucking bronco literally mad with frenzy. He had to traverse a veritable minefield of puddles and poop to put a leash on her, and then somehow maneuver this frantic dog through the minefield and out into the yard without getting jumped on with potty feet.
The clean-up was my job and I spent an hour every evening scrubbing, hosing, washing toys, bones and other dog paraphernalia. Dakota was a lot of work those first weeks.
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Other Books: Yankee, Go Home
Sneak Peek at Yankee, Go Home
Yankees flock to the sunny South where flowers bloom even in the middle of winter and summertime rules for most of the year. What nobody tells you is why the Yankees hightail it back North again.
Yankee Go Home exposes the gritty side of the South. Get lost in Arkansas and chased through Alabama by a madman. Find out who really won the Civil War and why. Come face to face with the Ku Klux Klan through the eyes of two tough, Yankee bikers. Meet up with a cop under the watchful eye of The Big Chicken. Discover the South through the eyes of a Yankee in this memoir of a Yankee in the South.
Get the answers to your most burning questions:
Does it snow in the South?
Are the bugs really bigger in the South?
What's the proper way to say hello?
What Southern delicacy is considered unmentionable?
What happens when a Yankee faces off with her Southern counterparts in the 1970s and 80s?
Excerpt from the book:
You'd think that the episode in Arkansas would have scared Dottie away from the South forever but it didn't. Shortly thereafter she moved to Memphis to be near her best friend Kim. Dottie should have had an inkling of what to expect as a Yankee down South during the drive to Memphis when Kim, a native of Tennessee, decided to prepare Dottie for life in the South.
"Hope you like mountain oysters," Kim sniggered.
"Mountain oysters? Never had 'em but I doubt I'll like them. I don't lik
e seafood."
"Oh, you'll take a cotton to these babies! Mountain oysters aren't seafood anyway."
"They're not? What are they then?"
"Take a guess," Kim urged with a sly grin spreading across her face.
"Well, maybe it's some kind of clam that burrows in the dirt in the mountains?" Dottie offered, intent on her driving.
"Very good!" Kim congratulated her heartily. "You're gonna love mountain oysters! Trust me!"
They drove for several miles in silence. Kim was looking out the window facing away from Dottie and her whole body was shaking in silent laughter.
"Kim, what's so funny?"
"Oh God! I can't stand it!" Kim erupted into loud laughter. "Clams that burrow in the dirt! Oh God!"
"I don't get it."
"Mountain oysters are pig balls!" Kim howled.
"Pig balls? I still don't get it. What do you mean, pig balls?"
"You know, balls! You know what balls are, don't you?" Dottie frowned, still confused. Kim explained: "Balls! Testicles! The male sex organs of a pig!"
"Oh gross!" Dottie grimaced. "You don't really eat them, do you?"
"Sure! They're a real delicacy down South! I'll take you shopping at the Piggly Wiggly grocery store. You'll see!"
And so Dottie's sojourn in the South began. She'd been afraid to check out the Southern grocery stores wholly expecting to find the meat department to be stocked with nothing but pig balls and hog ears, hog jowls and intestines, cow tongues and ox tails, wing of bat and eye of newt and Granny looming large with a hickory switch.
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Other Books: Wedding Anniversary Gifts for Coin Collectors
Sneak Peek at Wedding Anniversary Gifts for Coin Collectors
If you're married to a coin collector, a whole new world of gift shopping opens up when your wedding anniversary arrives. Every wedding anniversary has a specific category of gift associated with it, and there are two tables of gifts: Traditional and Modern.
The Modern table is skewed toward women who love jewelry, crystal and china glassware, and so forth. The Traditional gift table is down to earth and a lot more fun to work with. The first anniversary is paper, the second is cotton, followed by leather, flowers, wood, iron, and so forth.
This gift guide is specific to the Traditional table of wedding anniversary gifts and how you can give a coin collector gift that matches the anniversary table. From your 1st wedding anniversary to your 100th, you'll find gift suggestions for coin collectors herein. Where coins and paper money aren't available, we offer gold and silver bullion suggestions that match the gift table.
The Traditional gift table does not cover every year between 1 and 100; it has gaps starting in the 16th year. We filled those gaps from the Modern table and they are so notated with an asterisk*. When you get past 50 years, even the Modern table has gaps, which we've filled with the Traditional UK anniversary gifts, also noted with an asterisk*. In addition, once you get past 50 years, all of the anniversary gift tables start skipping years so that from 50-100, anniversaries come every five years.
While you can also find old stocks and bond certificates, and foreign paper money, this gift guide specifically focuses on U.S. coins and paper money, and gold and silver bullion as the primary options. This gift guide does NOT list novelty money such as million dollars bills or novelty coins.
Excerpt from the book:
24th Anniversary - Musical Instruments
On the surface, Musical Instruments sounds impossible but in coin collecting nothing is truly impossible. For example, you can give your spouse a 1936 Cincinnati Music Center of America silver half dollar of 90% silver/10% copper.
Or how about a Dolly Parton commemorative? You can get a .999 silver art bar that says "Music City Mint" along with "Dolly Parton", ".999 fine silver" and other markings. There are other Music City Mint silver art bars as well. In 1987, a .999 silver round commemorating the Cincinnati Music Hall was issued.
The Society of Medalists minted a .999 silver medal in 1973 of a tasteful naked person playing a guitar on one side, and a soldier carrying another soldier on the other. This was the 87th issue and "87th issue" is a potential keyword for this item.
The Vallejo Numismatic Society minted ...
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