A few weeks ago the nice folks at Thundershirt sent us one of their shirts to test. At first we weren't sure we were good test subjects since neither Gracie or I have any thunder or lightening phobias.But after reading their materials, we discovered that the Thundershirt can not only help pups with terrifying bouts of phobia during thunderstorms, it has been proven to work with whatever situation that makes your dog anxious, fearful, reactive or over-excited.Instantly, Mum and I thought about... Read Full Story

Every now and then we come across some amazing dog products. You've read on my blog about some of them, and how much we like 'em; like the Nina Ottosson toys, and others. Great stuff!Some of these products are so pawsome, we've decided to begin offering them directly to you through a new section of JohannTheDog.com, called JohannTheDog Direct! Here's my new little logo for that section of the site.At JohannTheDog Direct we will be featuring the best of the best, most innovative, Johann tried ... Read Full Story

Most of you know that Mum and I have been constantly and consistently working on building my core strength after my iliopsoas pull and back strains over the past couple of years.We've been doing a lot of balance ball work, (even doing begs and stands on the ball now), lots of begs with waves (which I can hold for over 30 secs now), and we've been doing a lot more hill hiking the past month. At least I'm not working on a Kettlebell like some humans do!Anyhoo....the other day, Mum was looking a... Read Full Story

Do you think this shirt makes my head look big? BOL!Mum was complaining the other day about not having some nice warm sweatshirts for our hikes and walks the other day.So what did I do? I told her to go and buy some of the new sweatshirts we made, well, duh! She did and we got them the other day. So excited!She bought one of my Agility t-shirts too! I just had to try it on, to see how I looked, ya know?Mum is absolutely loving the new sweatshirts. She got one of with a hood and some pockets o... Read Full Story

You know how much of a pet car safety advocate I am, especially after having come through a bad car accident with only a few bruised ribs.That's one of the reasons I wrote up a Squidoo lens on dog car safety a couple of years ago.So when I found out that the nice folks at BarkBuckleUp.com had this really cool car pet safety kit, we just had to order one.Bark Buckle UP is the recognized leader and experts in pet travel safety. They tour the USA and Canada educating and promote awareness for pe... Read Full Story

This past week we had a couple of great weather days. Mum was thinking that they may just be some of the last nice days of the year. So, we were determined to get in some good hiking.On Wednesday, we headed to the River Road Park and hiked along the White River. Have to tell ya there is some pawsome hiking there! We hiked for about 2 miles along the river, then headed back, so we got in about 4 miles total.Here we are headin' out from the parking area! Gracie was just a blur throughout the en... Read Full Story

This weekend we got busy again designing a few more new shirts. This time we did some for agility, flyball, herding and mutts. DOG! This is fun and addicting!My favorite design is the new Agility Rocks, 'cause you know how much I love agility. Mum's buying this shirt for herself today - navy blue long sleeve tee.There are three total Agility designs - Agility Rocks! Agility Rules! and I'd rather be playing Agility! All of the designs can be imprinted on a wide variety of items from sweatshirt... Read Full Story

Well it was raining the the end of last week so what happened? We got our dinner for doing some fun and easy tricks. And of course Mum got crazy with the video camera again!This time Gracie and I did a few of our easier tricks from a distance without Mum close by.Mum thought we did a pretty good job. She's calling it cute overload (but she's biased you know :). She thinks she may have to start sending out some wedding invitations or one of us! Any takers, BOL!!!Some of the tricks include: Ban... Read Full Story

This weekend Mum and I worked our paws to the bone (just kidding, we had a bunch of fun) putting together a new line of Raise A Green Dog gear!Now we are offering some pawsome new designs on organic tees for men and women, organic totes, dog bowls, Sigg bottles, other totes, sweatshirts and more!Above is a sample of the Reduce, Reuse, Repaw tees.And on the right is one of Mum's favs, Reduce Your Carbon Pawprint.Pretty soon Mum and I may move into creating equestrian apparel, just kiddin' ya a... Read Full Story

Saturday was a pretty pawsome weather day. So we ventured off to a new walking/hiking place. Well, it's not that new, Mum used to walk this path BD - before dogs. But when we head down this way we usually hike along the river bank, but it's been raining a lot lately, it was super muddy down there, and the river was higher, so we decided to take the walking path instead.The location is River Road Park - just about a mile down the road from us, which makes it super convenient.After a brief Grac... Read Full Story