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Central Oregon Pals with Paws is associated with Battle Buddies of Central Oregon. and The House of Hope Ministries. Please like their page at www.facebook.com/cobattlebuddy and House of Hope Ministries.

31/08/2025

Tomorrow is next month. Labor Day, then school. Fires are put on notice. Go out or get rained and snowed on. Hugo voted for snow. A peat bog fire was burning when my Mother was a little girl. It has been rained on buried in snow many times. It is still burning. Stubborn fire. Swedish fire? Christmas and Halloween decorations are in the stores. Maybe Thanksgiving will be in there too. Two, to, too and a tutu too. Or 2,2 and a too, two, To. Too many fires. Too much smoke. Too much heat. Too few walks. Too hot pavement. Hugo sleeps on the floor with air conditioning. 85 was too hot for us, now 75 is pushing our limits with heat. We welcome cool fall. Nice snowy winter. New moon , old moon, full moon, half moon, harvest moon, blue moon, black moon, pink moon, strawberry moon, snow moon, walks.

27/08/2025

The total amount of intelligence on this planet is fixed. The population is not. Knowledge is a dangerous thing. An ignorant person is someone who has not learned. A dumb person is someone who is unable to learn. A stupid person is someone who refuses to learn. An idiot is someone who has learned but refuses to apply their knowledge. Dogs may be ignorant, but not dumb. Dogs can not see many colors, but they learn to distinguish colors by shade. I have a friend who is color blind. He can’t tell the difference between red and green. They both look brown. Dogs exceptional ability to see shades of color can see the difference. I hope you find yourself ignorant. The more I learn, I find there is so much more I am ignorant of. An old Swedish proverb, We get too soon olt, and too late smart. If artificial intelligence has not invented artificial stupidity yet, I am sure they are well on the way. Too often they say, The world is going to the dogs. Too often they think that is a bad thing. Hugo and I went to the limb dump this morning, after the 3 inch rain. Lightning, thunder, water falling from the clouds. Unfortunately it was a short storm. The drops never got closer than 3 inches apart. Hugo and I were in the backyard during the storm. Fortunately it did not do long term damage to either of us. Did you read that as eether or ither? Does AI know the difference? Is AI smart enough to know when Hugo wants a walk?

25/08/2025

It’s hot. We have another fire. Hugo is not happy. We were visiting family in Portland. Came home early to rescue pets and house. Hugo was happy to see us. Fire is across the river over the hill and dale. We could see the flames at night. Some ash landed on us. Trying to find out if down town Geneva burned. Or if Alder springs is a hot tub. The last fire was in the same area, across the river. Starting up by lake Billy chinook. Smoke on Sunday. Clouds on Monday. Going to be a hot week. Too hot for four bare paws on asphalt. 103 in Sandy. Cooled off at blue box pass. The gold in the blue bucket may have melted. The blue bucket mine was never found. I don’t think it is even a mine. Just kids playing with a blue bucket in a creek in the desert. Hugo wants to go play in the creek, he doesn’t need a blue bucket or gold. Just cool water. And a kool walk.

21/08/2025

Hugo and I have had a trying couple of months. Veteranarian, doctor, dentist, bed rest, house arrest, no walks. I decided to go see my therapist. Hugo said, “suck it up buttercup.” Hugo is a therapy dog, emotional support dog, and a highly trained therapist. He has unconditional love. But sympathy is only given to real injury. He is a Glaser therapist student. Every thing you do takes you towards your goal or away from it.
DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow will come. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Don’t carry yesterday into it. Live in the now. Sometimes emotional support is brutal. It is nice to have a competent therapist on call. Sometimes without a call. Hugo sez, just walk it off. We can’t go for a walk. Let’s take a nap. That we can do. Now we are working up to our normal walk routine. But a nap sounds good. Walk, nap, walk nap, walk, walk.

19/08/2025

A friend dropped a cast iron skillet on her bare foot. I had all my teeth removed. She claims it was worse for her. She may be right. She didn’t numb her foot first. I see no purpose in her actions. I had purpose in my actions. My future is going to improve. Maybe next time she will wear those rubber beach shoes and work up to steel toed boots. Hugo doesn’t wear shoes. Hugo doesn’t use cast iron frying pans. He does jump off 8 foot cliffs and sprain his wrist. Two months without walks. I put some food in Moche’s food bowl. I have put food in her water bowl. The former makes more sense. When I tried to stand up again, there was a problem. I managed to hold on to both walls of the hallway to the couch. I laid down. Now a couple weeks later I can walk again. It has been a rough time for Hugo and I. Can you go for a walk with a frying pan on your foot? Hugo does not associate with dentists. His doctor did take x rated films of his wrist. He is a little worried that they may haunt him later in his political career. But with the right spin, he can walk it off with his limb dump walk.

11/08/2025

Sunday morning at 5 am it was 50 degrees. In LA it is was time for the Alaska fashion statement. 5 pm it was 100. A short time later they added one degree to match the number of Dalmatians in that LA movie. Hugo and I liked the 50 part. We did not like the 100 part. We doubt 101 Dalmatians liked the temperature matching the title of their movie. Hugo likes single digits for his temperature. Or no temperature. We find 75 is pushing our comfort zone. We would rather zone out in a snow bank. We have weather, whether or not we have weather that meets our weather preferences. Hugo wants a walk. It is now 60, working its way to triple digits when it will be too hot to walk.

08/08/2025

AI. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. I just read a brief political post for a candidate. She had worked for Sulzer pimps. Not the best part of her political resume. Not something Hugo would be influenced, positively, in his voting. I admit that politicians often pimp themselves out. But that is not the word they use. Lobbyist, same thing. Bribe, $, stock options. I would suspect that AI chose that word. AI proof read the paragraph. It was political, AI assumed pimp was more likely than pump. Dogs don’t pimp themselves. They may take bribes in the form of dog treats or pork belly. Yesterday Hugo refused some jerky. DIVA refused a pork chop. They have standards. However, if they take a bribe, they may not be bought. They will probably do the right thing anyway. We have to live with AI. Sometimes it is helpful. Just hope they don’t come up with AS. Artificial Stupidity. Natural Stupidity is prevalent enough. The scary part is human intelligence came up with AI. AI is faster. AS is probably here. Too bad it’s not a dogs world. Too bad we can’t lead a dogs life. Too bad the dogs don’t run the political world. They just want a nice walk.

28/07/2025

We went to Portland to see the grandchildren. We go Friday morning and come back Saturday afternoon. Steve comes to watch Hugo and Moche. They all like each other. Saturday afternoon Hugo got excited. Steve realized that Hugo knew we would be coming home. But we planned to stay an extra day. Poor Hugo. He and I had to suffer another day of separation. I did sit on the loveseat with him and take him for a walk.

Hugo and I have decided to not jump out of a perfectly good flying machine. We would rather look up at clouds than down...
23/07/2025

Hugo and I have decided to not jump out of a perfectly good flying machine. We would rather look up at clouds than down at them or go through them. Those orange jump suits look like prison wear. Unless they are jumping into a prison the camouflage pattern is not the best. Maybe they look like a fiery meteor coming from outer space. Some people think we are from outer space or think we should be there. We are happy to be on terrafirma. Much better than terrasoggy. We do live in Terrebonne. Earth good, when firm. Terrebonne for walk.

19/07/2025

Hugo is still limping. He got out and ran down the driveway and up the street and up Steve’s driveway. He looked back at me asking, why are you so slow? I limped, slowly behind. Steve and I sat while Hugo wandered around. He finally decided he would sit with us. We visited for a while and then limped back home. Neither limping more than when we left. It has been two months. Maybe we will resume our walks. A pair of limping walkers.

14/07/2025

A dog went up to a little girl stranded by the flood. Stayed with her until rescued. Not her dog. A search and rescue dog worked 36 hours. They tried to get it to stop and rest. It wouldn’t. There was work to be done. On a lighter note, a little girl was asked why five trucks had Dalmatians. “To help them find fire hydrants.” I often wondered. On a heavier note, Hugo is still limping. He is heavier than a Dalmatian. Still no walks. Still protecting me from people walking on our streets. Fed ex, ups, usps, may be delivering ieds. He didn’t strain his barking device. He doesn’t like the 100 degree weather. It’s too hot to go for the walks he can’t go on. Are Dalmatians just white dogs with a lot of burn marks? Can a Dalmatian change its spots? Does a bleach bottle black lab look like a Dalmatian? If you take a cougar for a walk, do you come back or is it your final walk.

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The Power Of A Paw

Helping people achieve better physical and emotional health through the unconditional love of a dog.

A charity created to help guide individuals through the process of acquiring a service dog or therapy dog. Everyone deserves the love and help of a dog, in a timely and affordable fashion. Pals with Paws is associated with The House of Hope Ministries. Please like their page at www.facebook.com/houseofhoperedmond.

***We focus on empowering owners/handlers with knowledge, and an understanding of their rights. Most of the people seeking our service dog help will become the trainers themselves, specialty training is available when needed. We work heavily through the seasoned experience of our community, and the connections that our members have made. Together, you too can know the ‘Power of a Paw’ in an affordable and timely manor.***