Archive for February, 2010

Pictured here is a new doggy park pawpal met recently. Have you ever seen a bigger doggy grin?

On Sunday my parents took me to visit a flea market in Kissimmee, and discovered only service dogs were allowed. With a fresh bootprint on my butt we moved on to Plan B, and went to Partin Triangle Dog Park for the first time. The park is just outside the city limits of St Cloud Florida on Neptune Road, and is divided into sections by size.

The one acre park opened in 2009 and has a small dog area with a separate entrance marked “Up to 30 lbs Only” and the other for larger dogs. As usual Dad was a picture taking machine so a new gallery of photos will be added to my website “soon” displaying the dogs I met at Partin Triangle Dog Park.

At the end of walks and clicker training I’m often treated with doggy fun playing peekaboo.

The game is easy to play. Dashing to the top of the redwood deck I can peek around the upright posts or above and below the horizontal rail boards to look at Dad on the other side. The photo here is extra cute because I’m resting between rails with paws crossed, and have my tongue out drooling in anticipation.

He moves left or right to mix up the correct response and says “Peekaboo” as I follow and then pose as shown in the photograph here. I’m immediately rewarded for stopping where he said “Peekaboo” with a treat depending on what he has in the treat bag for clicker training that day.

The reward could be a small chunk of chicken, beef, or turkey. Sometimes it’s Bil-Jac chicken liver training treats. On some occasions it’s frozen peas which is a bargain for his budget and tasty for me!

The doggy fun playing peekaboo is about more than the game and getting treats. The playful moments add up to a bond over the years that is priceless just like in the commercials. Doggy leash: $10.00. Chicken liver treat: 20 cents. Moments playing peekaboo: priceless.

Instead of having to select “Previous Video” or “Next Video” to navigate through each episode of my video story of Corky the shelter dog, I decided to add a new option on the video pages. With the release of the latest video entitled Corky and My Three Beds the list of all videos was added as shown here on every video page:

The illustration (smaller than actual size) shows the video player (left) for viewing dog videos on my website, and to the right is an example of the video episodes in order. This way as you view one video you can follow links to watch my entire story in sequence from the beginning.

A special thanks to all my fans, and remember there are more pet videos of Corky on YouTube including exclusive video not shown on my website!

Here’s me showing Sam our cat what came in the mail to ME today. This is Corky’s first Valentines card ever ever and it came all the way from Illinois.

A special THANKS to @Niqqi from Twitter, a girl puppy and one of my favorite cutie patootie Bichon Frise pawpals in Twitter, for sending me this wonderful greeting! You can learn more about Niqqi on her Niqqi’s World blog or watch her puppy adventure videos on YouTube!