Advice & Adventures 

My first rescue dog, Porter, is 45% Rat Terrier, 5 % this, 5 % that, 35% Elkhound, and 100% spicy. Did I know this when I adopted him? NOPE. Could I tell at the adoption fair that he was going to want to throw down with every dog we walked past once I got him out of there? NOPE! He seemed like a pretty typical hyper 1-year-old dude dog while I were signing the paper work.

The learning process is as follows: Set your objective; try; fail; adjust; try again. Even though, objectively, I know this, I still always want to skip the part where I fail over and over and over again. It's embarrassing. It's demoralizing. It's not fun no matter how you spin it. It is, though, an inevitable and ugly and unfortunate step you must take when you are learning something new. Against all logic, I thought that with enough planning and reading, maybe I could