June 04, 2007 was my first dog blog. I wrote on Blogspot until around August 2016; which is when I published my new and current website Justdogswithsherri.com. At that point I moved everything over and kept on blogging. When I transitioned to my new website with my blogs, I had written and published 2,636 blogs. That was almost 6 years ago so I would imagine I’m well into the 3000’s.
I cannot believe that I have been blogging for nearly 15 years. That is crazy to me, especially because I blogged daily for years and years before tapering off to weekly, monthly and then here and there. You can only do so much in a day right?
Those were the days when I was training full on all day long. I had teenagers so I was driving everywhere between training, getting my own dogs out and working with them and getting burned out. But I continued to write because I truly believe that sharing life experience with other like minded people (dog lovers) is a good thing. I wrote about my life with dogs and everything involved with it.
In the start of my blogs I went photo-less, but that only lasted a short time as I began my life as a pro dog photographer. I took a few years off training which was much needed and dove into my dream of being a photographer. I dabbled with subject matter for a short time and then settled on dogs; what better subject than dogs. After a few years of shooting dogs I was back to training which is all documented in my blogs, a lifetime with dogs.
“Life is an evolution in oneself”
This is a favorite quote of mine and I truly believe it. I am not the dog person I was 47 years ago. I have most certainly changed since my first day in a conformation ring with a Doberman on the end of my leash. At 13 I had no idea what I was doing but I dove into the deep end of life with dogs and didn’t look back.
I have changed a lot, like many of us in life we grow. Things that didn’t seem important to me before are now at the forefront; things that seemed very important way back then are no longer of any interest to me, we change, hopefully we change.
Over the years of blogging, I have met some amazing people. I still get questions from my blogs from way back. Someone looking for help stumbles upon one of my blogs and reaches out. I love when I can help, even just a little. Sometimes you just want to know that you are not out there dealing with life issues alone.
Things are changing and they will always be changing. Instant gratification is a big thing now with what seems like less time for life these days. There is no instant fix with dogs; it a a multi-level, group of tactics that we need to look at for helping our dogs. One thing may help but it is not a fix; and quick fix should be replaced with solid, consistent, dedicated work.
I am passionate about dogs, obviously. But it is not only the training and behavior modification that I am interested in. I am interested in the big picture, the whole thing that we call dogs. From grooming, feeding, behavior, enrichment, exercise, anatomy, health, temperaments, breeding, genetics…All of it, everything to do with dogs. Life with…
We have done wrong by dogs in many ways; we have also done right in many ways, but we cannot stop learning. No one knows it all and I will be the first to admit that there is so much more to learn about dogs I love learning about dogs and I love sharing what I learn with you all. Even if that is through my own life experiences.
If you are interested in reading them? It will be a while if you get started now. :) Happy reading.
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