The Worst Reasons to Get a Dog

Dogs can bring so much love and joy to our lives. Dogs can also bring our lives a lot of stress. However, when you chose the right dog and for the right reasons you will find the right match for your family. Choosing a dog for your family requires research and patience. Once you narrow your choices down to a few breeds and avoid the reasoning below you will be able to live a happy life with your new dog.

It's just so cute!
Everybody wants to have a cute puppy or dog, but cute is not a reason to own a dog. You should research the breed before choosing a dog, not after you bring the dog home. Each breed has its personality quirks and needs. Some breeds require more exercise, while other breeds require mental stimulation to keep from getting bored.

This breed is all the rage with celebrities!
Just because a celebrity has a certain breed does make that breed a good match for you or your family. Unfortunately many celebrities chose dogs by how easy they are to carry or how cute they look in a certain outfit. Never chose a dog because someone you admire has that breed of dog.

I want a manly breed!
Sometimes men feel that their breed of dog as a pet speaks of their masculinity. Without research they decide that they need a big, muscular dog. Men tend to chose bully breeds and large dogs, but bully breeds and large dogs have unique needs. Bully breeds in particular require special training and a dominant leader.

My kids want a dog.
No matter how many times your kids assure you that they will be responsible for the dog, you should no matter. As soon as the novelty wears off you will have to beg them just to keep the water bowl filled. Be sure you are prepared to feed and exercise the dog on your own before buying or adopting a dog.


Bill at BWB is able to assist you in finding the right dog to complete your family. Please call him at 206-353-BILL (2455) before making you pet selection or if you have already chosen your new companion, call Bill for helpful hints on making a smooth transition into pet ownerhood. The outcome will be so much more rewarding if you prepare before ownership

Ponder these with your pet.....

"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit,
you would stay out and your dog would go in."
- Mark Twain


"Man is a dog's idea of what God should be."
- Holbrook Jackson

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
- Andrew A. Rooney

"To his dog, every man is King;
hence the constant popularity of dogs."
- Aldous Huxley

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."
- James Thurber

"Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god
and a dog to a man."
- Ambrose Bierce

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend:
and inside a dog, it's too dark to read."
- Groucho Marx

"A dog is not "almost human," and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such."
- John Holmes

"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."
- Woodrow Wilson

"The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien."
- Plato

"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make
a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you,
but he will make a fool of himself too."
- Samuel Butler

"If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man."
- Mark Twain


"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies,
quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love
and always have to mix love and hate."
- Sigmund Freud

"No man can be condemed for owning a dog.
As long as he has a dog, he has a friend;
and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."
- Will Rogers

"Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit."
- Sir Walter Scott


"To err is human:To forgive, canine."
- Anonymous

"I talk to him when I'm lonesome like,
and I'm sure he understands.
When he looks at me so attentively,
and gently licks my hands;
Then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes,
but I never say naught thereat,
For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes,
but never a friend like that!"
- W. Dayton Wedgefarth

BowWowBill Rescues Dogs

Submitted by Susan Sattari
BowWowBill.com

Clients of BWB know the special relationship he has personally with each and every dog he works with. A true bond between Bill and the dogs is uncanny. Its as if he is one of them as he is able to communicate with just about any dog. Likewise he is an excellent communicator with dog owners in assisting them to seek harmony in their families with their dog.

Bill gets called out on many different dog training requests but the ones closest to his heart are those dogs who owners are ready to be rid of the dog as "untrainable".  Most of these dogs end up at the vet's office with the owner asking the vet to put the dog down. They don't know what else to do with the unruly dog.

Recently, a Seattle area vet received a request to put a dog down because he kept nipping at the child in the family and would not obey commands. The vet counseled the family and suggested that before they do anything drastic that BowWowBill be called to see if he would be able to help this family with a very difficult decision. The vet actually refused to put the dog down until this family consulted with BowWowBill to make sure that nothing else could be done.

Bill was called in and he met with the family for three hours. Because of his deep love not only for dogs but also for families with dogs, Bill was able to turn this anguished situation around. Not only a happy family was formed but a dog was rescued from sure demise. Everyone is glad that Bill was there to save the day.

If you have or if you know of a dog who needs to be rescued because they are considered untrainable, call BowWowBill. Bill will get you and your pet in sinque with each other so you can coexist the way pets and owners should live...so happy together.

freekibble.com feeds hungry dogs for FREE!!

The recent economic events have prompted all kinds of turmoil with families across the country with the high price of gas, food, lodging and everything we are accustomed to in our everyday lives. Along with trying to stretch the paychecks people are learning to do without some of the “necessities” they are used to having readily available.

Mimi Ausland, a 12 year old girl from Bend, Oregon has always had a big heart for dogs. She has grown up loving animals and is a volunteer at a local animal shelter. She noticed that the animal population at the shelter began growing as our economy became unstable. People were disregarding their dogs. Dogs became the victims of foreclosures on homes and this prompted young Mimi to swing into action.

While watching a program about freerice.com, to help feed hungry people for free, Mimi came up with the idea to start her own website to help feed hungry dogs for free. She shared her idea with her parents and with their help she was able to start up her own website www.freekibble.com and it has really taken off. Mimi said it was a natural move for her because as her father says “it is simple, she just wants to feed dogs in animal shelters.”

To help homeless dogs (and cats, too) have enough food until they are adopted you can get involved by going to the website www.freekibble.com , click on the bow wow trivia question. You can do this everyday and each time you do 20 pieces of kibble goes to animal shelters to feed hungry dogs. The more you play, the more kibble for the dogs.

Mimi enjoys her new venture and knows those dogs that she is feeding are in need. Her goal is to go national with her free kibbles to join her current donations to the Human Society of Central Oregon and by August she will be supplying Furry Tail Farms on Brainbridge Island. Her business slogan says it all “Every dog deserves a decent dinner.” You go Mimi and thank you for your love of dogs.

Check out her website now. A hungry dog is waiting for your click.