Advice & Adventures 

We picked up our first rescue dog, Porter, at an adoption fair in December of 2018. Our beloved lab had died two months before and, obviously, we were bereft, spending the afternoons walking the dog walking route (with no dog) and openly crying about it.

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