Is your computer or camera card filled with photos of your beloved pooch moving in a blur or looking out at you with eyes like florescent lamps? Gloria Yarina, a professional photographer, provides us with a delightful, easy-to-remember “recipe” to get that perfect canine pic. As she wisely notes: Most “how to” photo instructions […]
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It’s Valentine’s Day! Meet our Team and Share the Love
Happy Valentine’s Day to all our wonderful readers and contributors from the My Magic Dog team! My Magic Dog has been blogging for awhile and we thought our readers might like to know something about the wonderful group of people who help us put together the My Magic Dog posts and feeds. So here they […]
Sizing up the dogs
Many dog lovers claim to love all canine types and sizes, and in a world where the tiniest breeds average only 5 pounds to those weighing over 150, this is a remarkable range of taste. Nevertheless, it does seem as if Americans prefer larger dogs. Perhaps it is our culture (“bigger is better”?) or perhaps […]
Canine Heroes
From service dogs to shaggy dogs, canine heroes cross all breeds, genders, places and times. The earliest such hero may be the story of Gelert, a legendary dog, alleged to have been a gift from King John of England to Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd. Llywelyn returned from hunting to find his baby missing, […]
Are Santa’s “reindeer” really Service Dogs?
Have you ever considered the possibility that Santa’s sleigh is actually pulled by . . . service dogs? It makes sense, doesn’t it? After all, what greater service than to help Santa deliver presents to children all over the world! But, you say, all the cards and cups and ornaments and every other conceivable thing […]
Holiday Biscuits and Dangerous Bites (of food, not dogs)
A recent magazine article claimed that the average person gains one to two pounds during the holidays. Gain one to two pounds over the holidays? Are they kidding? That’s about as believable as those television infomercials, which promise a program that will make you rich beyond your wildest dreams and reveal the secret to losing […]
A Thanksgiving Message
In the US, the start of the winter holiday season is marked by a special day: Thanksgiving. It is a tradition that began in 1621 but did not become a national holiday until 1863, when President Lincoln issued a Thanksgiving Proclamation. In consideration of this important holiday, which encourages us to reflect and consider our […]
Why we choose a particular dog at a shelter
According to ASPCA statistics, 20 to 30 percent of dogs are adopted from shelters and rescues. Another 26 percent purchase their dog from a breeder, and somewhere between 2 to 10 percent purchase from pet shops. Most of the rest of our pet dogs are obtained from acquaintances and family members. Clearly, we at My […]
A Dog by Any Other Name . . . (is just as sweet)
Popularity in dog names, as with those for children, change over the years. Dogs of yesteryear were often descriptive of a dog’s particular traits (e.g., Barker) or reflected some common attribute of dogs in general. For example, the name Rover, a popular name before leash laws, is rather indicative of the dogs of that era […]
Definition of a Dog
On a site dedicated to the German Shorthair Pointer, we discovered a beautiful tribute to the breed, entitled “Definition of a Dog.” It was written by a woman named Yazmin Kuball about her dog, Simba. Yazmin has kindly allowed us to re-post her comments on our blog today. We encourage our readers to check out […]
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