- Elsa -

Today Fort Fido's team met up with, Elsa, bright and early for her assessment. She is a spunky, seven month old, sixty pound, Rottweiler. This high-energy young canine, is coming to The Fort to hone her social skills and drain off some of her extra energy. Elsa had surgery about a month back, and has been a bit cooped-up and sedated ever since... However, you'd never know it by the looks of her! She was ready and raring to go this morning, especially after being introduced to the Big Roll Play Area. Inside, Elsa wiggled and wagged her whole body, happily greeting each and every pack member that arrived. For a young dog that hasn't been too socialized, she did a darn good job at "meeting and greeting". Elsa even made friends, and played, with Chedder, and several others, within minutes of her arrival.

 Here, Elsa and Chedder get into Beast Mode together.

We believe that Elsa can grow up into a very social, calm and well balanced adult dog. Rottweilers, are what we here at The Fort call, "a lot of dog". In the wrong hands, and with the wrong set of "rules", they can quickly become unpleasant and hard to manage. The reason, is because they are an extremely smart, strong, and athletic "Power Breed"... One with brute-strength, and a headstrong attitude, particularly, when in the presence of weak leadership. Given time, consistency, a strict routine, and very strong leadership, today's Elsa can thrive. Fort Fido is happy to have her join our ranks because she had a really good time here. We hope that she can be kept on the right track and can continue to blossom. You go girl!

Enjoy your weekend, and the Superbowl, if that's your thing.

GO HAWKS!

-Grant
P.S. We have plenty of room here at Fort Fido on Superbowl Sunday. Several of our customers are in Arizona for the game, and many more will be dropping their canines off for Daycare and or Overnight Boarding around Sunday... You know... To keep them out of the queso dip lol! Feel free to have your canine pal join us.

P.P.S. That reminds me, if you are having or attending a party for the Big Game, please keep Fido out of the snacks! Make sure your friends and family do the same. Monday after the Superbowl tends to be a Dog-Daycare-Diarrhea-Fest, and nobody wants that. Here, dogs with diarrhea get crated, and don't get to play as much, nobody wants that either. ;)

 

(Russel Wilson with one of his Great Danes!)

Just...

In case you missed them, here are some of the hilarious canine related Super Bowl commercials, that aired last Sunday during the game. Once again, dogs, were the highlight of the Super Bowl advertisements.

Audi's "Doberhuaha" was a crackup!

Doritos' "Cowboy Kid" was my favorite!

 

CarMax's "Slow Bark" was a cute one.

 

There was also this quite memorable Subaru commercial.

And last but not least, a re-post of everyone's favorite one, Budweiser's "Puppy Love".

 

Way to go Seahawks, so well deserved, and so well done!

 

Cheers,

 

-Grant



Happy Friday

Happy Friday y'all! If you haven't already, checkout our YouTube Channel, it's got plenty of clips, and it has had a bit of a facelift as of late.

You may also want to take a look at the Rates page of our website, there has been a few minor changes.

In other news, my girlfriend spotted an extremely cute photo set of a puppy and a baby. Gulp lol. She sent me the link so I could post it on the blog. Surprisingly, I had seen it just a few hours before, and I must admit, it's pretty frickin cute. I attempt to stay current with as much online "dog stuff" as possible, but the internet is extremely vast and people love posting "dog stuff" all over, so it can be tricky to keep track of it all. If you run across something fun and or noteworthy, please email it to me.

Checkout the "Dog & Baby" here... And here!

That's all for now, just for good measure, here is a fun little clip of Georgie and Keegan, enjoying each other's company early this morning.

Have a great weekend, fingers crossed, GO HAWKS!

-Grant
P.S. Feel free to drop into The Fort this weekend for Daycare or Overnight Boarding, we have the room. Let your canine companion get into "Beast Mode" here, rather than at your Super Bowl gathering lol!

Dog Movie Throwbacks

The other night, I was struck with nostalgia after seeing Budweiser's upcoming Super Bowl commercial, "Puppy Love". It reminded me of many of the classic, canine-related, family movies and shows that I loved watching in my childhood.

Although I am far too young to have truly experienced the original Lassie Movie (1943), I did love watching reruns of the black and white television show on Nickelodeon. Timmy and his antics were quite the crackup to me back then. And who, at the tender age of nine in 1994, couldn't resist the charms of Michelle Williams in the Lassie remake film. She was most definitely, one, of my many first crushes. Puppy love? Lol!

One of my absolute favorite "pet films" was the 1986 classic, The Adventures of Milo and Otis! This movie was so fun to watch as a kid, real heartwarming and what not. I believe it to be the precursor to the equally amazing, Homeward Bound series of pet movies.

Basically, any show or movie with a "talking dog" or animal, thoroughly entertained me back than. When I say "talking dog", I'm referring to how the narration was done in those films... None of this Air Bud style junk with moving mouths lol! However, I'm sure there are a lot of children in love with the Air Bud series. Maybe I would have loved it too, if we had that superior CGI graphic technology in the early nineties, or, if I was younger... Yup... Suddenly in 1997, I became far too old for "talking dog" movies. Bummer. Anywho, I still love a few of those funny-dog-classics... Including the original Beethoven, ya can't forget about that gem.

For some rather enjoyable, and more grownup, canine-related family cinema, give A Dog Year and The Cave of the Yellow Dog a try. If you are really hard-up, there is always Marley and Me... But please, don't somehow "recreate" that beast in your life, and send it into The Fort. Hahaha!

Cheers,

-Grant
P.S. Well actually, if your Marley-esque pooch can pass our assessment day, they're in. We can and do take care of several rowdy (high energy) canines daily. It's pretty much our biz, and what we do best. ;)