Last week, Clyde joined his pug brother Brodhi at the Rainbow Bridge. Our thoughts are with his parents Jill and Scott at this sad time. Clyde was part of Doggedly Devoted’s “Senior Pug Bridge Club” for the past three years–almost as we have been open–and we will miss him very much.
We’ve had a LOT of mini-dachshunds at Doggedly Devoted, thanks in part to David and Hegulka’s “four-pack” of minis and mini-mixes: Barkley, Dexter, Freckle, and Lulu. Can you identify which picture below is the REAL Four Pack? Email us your answer, and correct answers will be entered in a drawing for some free Doggedly Devoted swag. Photo A Photo B Photo C Photo D Photo E Photo F
Having grown up with two or three big dogs at all times in her childhood home, Elisabeth Bromberg was eager to get her own dog after she moved to New York City. She moved here 11 years ago to attend NYU, where she majored in Communications and Marketing. Between undergraduate apartment living and space limitations, the time to get a dog was not right until until she moved to Harlem into her own apartment in April 2014....
Join Doggedly Devoted and dozens of other local organizations for a “meet and woof” at Tom’s Dog Run (112th and FDR Drive) on Saturday, August 8 from 12 to 4 pm.
by Sophie Liu, CDBC, Doggedly Devoted Summer Training Associate Training dogs is usually pretty simple. The hard part is rewarding good behavior consistently and removing rewards for undesirable (“bad”) behaviors. But mistakes will happen. How do we correct problems without using forceful or coercive punishments? As it turns out, there are often very simple solutions to common problems: Problem: My dog pulls as soon as I try to start walking. If your dog is bursting at the seams from the very beginning, you’ll need to spend more time building a strong foundation....