Our little Petite Peu (“little bit” in French) dog is part of the family. We have been a very reluctant family. But slowly she has made it i...

Arnia, the teen, with the hat made for her by the day care where she is working during the holiday.

Little Bit of a Mistake! That’s what our little bit of a dog IS! The problem with dogs and with children: You can’t give them back. (You ca...

The dog completed her clicker training, and got a diploma certificate awarded to her: “This certifies that Petite Peu Has successfully comp...

The dog trainer: “Come here, you little crazy dog! Are you a crazy dog?” Patting the dog on the head. It is nearly the end of our clicker...

I was waiting for the dog trainer on Saturday to call our dog “ pycho dog ” again. I wanted to question her about it. Maybe she thought abou...

Clicker training #4: I had to take the dog through her training on Saturday, because the teen was busy with hockey. The dog is doing “sit” a...

“Petite Peu! Come! Sit!” Click! Snack! “Petite Peu! Lay down!” Click! Snack! The dog is sitting and laying down on command! But when she got...

The dog (actually us) got her first clicker training on Saturday. We thought she was unmanageable and it turns out she is very smart! We bou...

Dries found the dog cowering in the corner today with a big cat busy eating her food. Now we have to teach her how to chase cats as well… In...

We had two months of grace. Because Mieka only started to move last week, we could postpone organizing and safeguarding our house until now....

How nice to be able to enjoy going home at the end of each day. We were discussing women being in bad relationships, and not wanting to be a...

Children and dogs are expensive. (Sic) The dog turned out to be not a Miniature Pinscher, but a cross, most likely with a Dachshund. The vet...

Our little bit of a dog is still alive! Dries and Arnia are doing their fair share in looking after her. Dries go home during lunch-time to ...

Petite Peu, our 7-week Miniature Pinscher, has pulled through. Arnia said the puppy was extremely glad to see them when they went to fetch h...

The Little Bit of a life is still at the vet. We did not discuss it much today. I think we are saving ourselves emotionally, and trying to n...

How difficult can it be? We want a little dog! We are going through the same trauma again of a few weeks back. Little Bit, our 6-week Miniat...

Wow! What are we doing wrong! The little Miniature Pinscher is at the vet on a drip. Again! We went through the whole traumatic experience t...

We found our little Miniature Pinscher in a pet shop today. Because we were promised a dog of this breed, we got used to the idea. When we ...