Dear Friends,
This in my Monday morning mail today:

HOW HOT IS IT IN ARIZONA ?? (FYI. 112 degrees today) Yikes!
This is Elliot, an English Bulldog, and this is an “un-posed” picture
(trust me, you couldn’t actually make Elliot do anything)
of said pooch trying to beat the ARIZONA heat after his owners emptied their
cooler in the driveway in Chandler, ARIZONA

One picture is worth a thousand words……

Arizona hot

I love my email. Yesterday my friend Casey, from Ideas Collide in Arizona, sent me a great suggestion for taking some time off and just having fun.

Speaking of having fun, we all love to travel and it is always much more fun when our pets can go with us.

Best Western: Pet Friendly. With our breakfasts, free in-room coffee, internet and rewards program we’ve always been known as an extremely people friendly hotel chain.
We also wanted to show you that we love your pets too. With 1900 pet friendly hotels, you and your pet can now travel and vacation together.
Each Best Western® hotel is independently owned and operated.

But, back to Casey. Look very closely at this dog photo. See anything a little odd? A little endearing? How would you like to morph you photo with your pet’s photo?

Ready, set, go have fun at Inseparator!

How did you do? Send me an email with your inseparable new photo and I will put them in my blog.

Your friend,
Fisher

If I look cute can I come inside?

Dear Fisher,

I used to play in the back yard but then I thought it would be fun to jump over the fence when my people were at work. I did a few other things in the house and my people decided I needed to stay in the yard. So then they bought me a dog house. They tie me to the dog house so I won’t get out of the yard. They think it is great because it is big and roomy and they put my favorite blanket in there. I hate it! I won’t even get inside it when it’s raining. What can I do?

Your friend,
Claus

Dear Claus,

Many is the day I wish I had my own house. I think you are lucky. You obviously do not. Let us examine some of the reasons for your distress. The biggest issue I see is that you, the dog, are a pack animal. You likely feel you are isolated out in the yard attached to your new dog house and you are just plain lonely. Or – and no other dogs need to know – you might just be a little scared out there when you hear all the neighborhood noises and you cannot see over the fence to learn what is going on. Could you be a little claustrophobic? Would it help if your house had a window?

To get through this, just remember why this has happened in the first place. Face the facts. You messed up (no pun intended)! As I read your letter, the word “training” kept popping into my head. It could be that training you to enjoy the dog house will carry over into your enjoyment of the people house. A few tips to get started are:

1. Your people could put treats or a favorite toy inside the dog house.
2. Alternate putting food and water bowls inside, then outside of your house.
3. Your people must also train themselves to not peek out the windows to see how you are doing.
4. Check into the top rated dog training programs on line Pup Dog Training.

As to the issue of your sitting out in the rain instead of going into your dog house: Humans know how much dogs love to swim. They may soon realize that the rain is not bothersome to you and they will figure out it is just a ploy to look pitiful. Oops! Did I spill the beans?

Your friend,
Fisher

Some days it is just plain exciting opening my email. I love getting letters from you pets out there and I do strive to answer your questions and help resolve your issues as quickly as I can. After all, I know if you took the time to write to me, you wanted action!

It is also fun for me to share some of the other miscellaneous email I receive. Today I rushed to open “Inner Peace” in hopes of learning a great secret. Well, I was not really disappointed and I certainly was amused.

Inner Peace

If you can start the day without caffeine,

If you can get going without pep pills,

If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,

If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,

If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,

If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,

If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,

If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend,

If you can conquer tension without medical help,

If you can relax without liquor,

If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,

…Then You Are Probably The Family Dog!

Your friend,
Fisher