RV Electrical Issues: Solving A Burning Question In My RV

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Little Bighorn

The saga continues as we take in some indigenous perspectives in Wyoming.

Memorial for Soldiers, Scouts and Civilian Dead At Little Bighorn Battlefield , Shutterstock Little Bighorn: Come For The Memorial, Stay For The Bannock We passed the over the rolling, golden hills, through the valleys and past a lot of sombre white crosses that marked the places where people had died in the midst of their journey. As we approached the Little Bighorn Battlefield monument, the…

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Catching Up As We Cross Into Wyoming

We've got a lot of catching up to do- We had a series of totally unexpected events as I decided which way I would travel.

We’ve Got A Lot Of Catching Up To Do So…we’ve got a. lot of catching up to do. Here’s what’s happened since my adventures in South Dakota.  Even though the RV technician in West Fargo had given me the green light, and said he couldn’t find a problem, I was still worried.  I still had a bad feeling about the smoke coming from the electrical panel a few days before. The feeling that something was…

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Using Dog Language To Train Dogs

Use Dog Language To Up Your DogTraining Game No matter what we’re teaching a dog, it’s crucial to be able to read dog body language. Then we can offer a visual cue as a means of letting him know what we want him to do. Obviously, inter-dog communication doesn’t use verbal language like we do. Instead, dogs communicate via complex combinations of body postures, movements, facial expressions and…

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The Badlands Banshee

The Badlands Banshee:      Terror Of The South Dakota Badlands The Badlands Banshee: Terror Of The South Dakota Badlands There’s a local legend in the Badlands that was told to me by a cowboy I ran into in Deadwood in the Black Hills of South Dakota.. That being said, here’s the tale, as best as I can remember it:  A long time ago, three cowboys were passing through the Canyon on their way to…

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Teach your dog to come with these essential games!

ROCKET RECALLS TAKE TEAMWORK Train your dog to come for a better relationship Training Your Dog To Come When You Call Training your dog to come when you call is one of the best gifts you can share with him. A dog with a reliable recall gets to enjoy time off-leash. He gets to have more fun than a dog that has to be leashed all the time. He also gets to enjoy a more connected relationship with…

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How To Potty Train A Puppy Fast

How To Potty Train A Puppy (Or Adult Dog) What is the easiest, fastest way to potty train a puppy? Potty training your new puppy is easy if we give the puppy what he needs to learn. It’s important to follow a plan that sets your puppy up for success by preventing accidents (as much as possible) and heavily rewarding the action of eliminating outdoors. Here are 6 easy steps that make it easy for…

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How to Train Your Dog to Retrieve

Photo by Aloïs Moubax on Pexels.com Training your dog to retrieve reliably is fun Dog training should be fun! Training your dog to retrieve means teaching him to bring a toy, dog training dummy or any other object back to you on a cue. Retrieving objects is fun and it’s really great exercise that involves many rewarded repetitions of cooperation with the handler. Retrieving has good side…

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A South Dakota Badlands Story

About The Badlands The Badlands of South Dakota have a scenic highway that runs though their barren valleys and canyons. It’s natural spires and composed of rocks and dust that piled into brilliant bands of purple, yellow, orange and grey. It’s an amazing drive through one of the most scenic national parks I’ve ever been to. When I passed through, the fee to take the drive was $36USD (about $50…

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Dog Aggression: The Truth About Corrections

Dog Aggression, Defined Dog aggression is defined as growling, snarling, lunging, snapping and biting. Aggressive behaviour in dogs does not often occur in every circumstance of the dog’s daily life, so it isn’t accurate to use the term “aggressive” to define a dog. Instead, the term “aggression” refers to behaviour that is often rooted in reinforced repetitions of instinctive defensive…

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Mount Rushmore: Towering Over Indigenous America

Mount Rushmore National Memorial South Dakota Before Mount Rushmore Did I mention South Dakota has enough roadside attractions to keep you in the state for at least busy few weeks. Including Mount Rushmore, the famous national monument in the Black Hills. Recently, I’ve been contemplating what exactly happened to the North America’s Indigenous peoples, who lived in a spiritual unity with the…

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8 Reasons Your Dog Doesn't Listen To You

Here’s Why Your Dog Doesn’t Listen Almost a year ago I wrote an article for Animal Wellness Magazine detailing the reasons that dogs don’t listen. The goal of the article was to bring a new understanding in owners of their supposedly stubborn or so-called “dominant” dog behavior. The reasons dogs really don’t listen to us surprised many readers and shocked others. In any case, when our dogs…

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5 Puppy Training Tips Everyone Should Know

Here are 5 tips every puppy parent should know !

Essential Puppy Training Tips For Your New Puppy Bringing a new puppy home is a lot like bringing home a new baby in many ways. The anticipation and nervous excitement that new puppy parents feel is almost the same as any new parents feel. And it’s no wonder because having a new puppy in the household can herald a brand new chapter of life. But it’s not just that: Bringing a new puppy brings…

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South Dakota Sunny Side Up

Places, Spaces and and A Cathedral For Corn Daisy May devours the miles of highway eagerly as we travel along the Interstate. She’s built for this for sure. I am still buying time to decide on my destination for winter. Will I head to New Mexico and then Arizona? However, It’s still so blistering hot that Daisy Mae’s dashboard air conditioner struggles to make any difference to the temperature…

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7 Dog Training Tips To Boost Your Bond With Your Dog

Build Your Relationship With Dog Your Dog With These Training Tricks At some point in time, you’ve probably admired a dog and handler team that works together so joyfully that they are absolutely magical to watch. The truth is that when you see this, it’s not due to some dog training trick. What you’re seeing is the result of a strong interspecies bond.  If you look carefully, you’ll see a…

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South Dakota Bound

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A Wolf in Dog’s Clothing? New Study Finds Otherwise

Modern Science Says Dogs And Wolves Are Not Genetically Close At All A recently published study on ancient dog origins has found that dogs are not related to wolves at all.  The study published in August 2020 (1) used modern genomic tools to discover that dogs are not genetically close to modern wolves at all as was previously thought. By studying the genes of both dogs and wolves, it was…

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