Northern Legacy Dogos

07/27/2025

🚨Rabies Alert🚨

An unvaccinated outdoor cat tested positive for rabies at a farm in Mower county. The cat had contact with two people and several domestic animals.

🚩Rabies is 100% fatal once symptoms appear. Rabies is a preventable viral disease that attacks the central nervous system of mammals causing encephalopathy and death. The virus is transmitted through saliva from infected animals most often from bites.

Steps to Help Protect Your Pets and Family:
✅ Keep ALL animals up to date on rabies vaccines
(Rabies vaccines are available for dogs, cats, ferrets, horses, cattle, and sheep)
🔴 Do NOT approach unfamiliar or wild animals
🔴 Do NOT keep wild animals as pets
🔴 Do NOT leave children alone with animals
🔴 Do NOT attract wild or stray animals to your home or yard

More info from the Minnesota Board of Animal Health in the link below:
https://www.bah.state.mn.us/Mower-County-Farm-Cat-Tests-Positive-for-Rabies

07/09/2025

Due to unfortunate messaging over the years, coupled with a lack of knowledge, and compounded by the human tendency for denial/delusion, what should be obvious and commonly accepted is anything but.

A few of the messages:
-There are no bad dogs, only bad owners. Wrong.
-Any dog can be “fixed” if you’ll get your energy right. Wrong.
-Every dog should be saved. Wrong.

The knowledge gap:
-We have a chaotic house, with lots of kids running all over, and we adopted a highly nervous but “sweet” herding breed. Bad.
-My dog challenges everyone in our family, and has bitten us all, but is great with my trainer. Bad.
-We got a guarding/working breed so it can protect the family, even though we’ve never had a dog before. Bad.

A bit of denial:
-He only bites us when we kiss/dance/move too fast/leave the house/vacuum because he had a traumatic early life. Delusion.
-She’s guards her spot on the couch, her toys, and her food, and will bite us if we get too close, but it’s only because she never had things of her own before. Delusion.
-He always growls at or bites my husband, but I’m sure he was abused by a man before I adopted him. Delusion.

Can people improve? Absolutely. Can dogs improve? Almost always. Does that mean that all fits can be made healthy and happy, or are wise? Nope. People and dogs come in many flavors, and many of these flavors work wonderfully well together, some work with certain other flavors, and some (human and dog) don’t work well at all. It’s a sad reality, but a reality nonetheless. We should be choosing the dogs we share our lives with based on an honest and informed assessment of who we are, what our lives look like, and what dog—both breed and individual personality—fits that reality best.

Ignore the silly messages, do your homework, and lose the denial.

Fairytales in dog land often end up as nightmares.

06/29/2025

We did it! Another Fcat weekend in the books ❤️ Hel achieved her Dcat yesterday and had a great run today. Greater Twin Cities Afghan Hound Club put on a wonderful event at the new location in Ramsey.

06/20/2025

Keep your pups safe during this coming heat wave Minnesota friends

05/25/2025

Had some fun with the 4wheeler ❤️ Ivar is stretching his legs.

05/01/2025

Got in a quick hike this evening with Ivar and enjoyed a beautiful sunset. ❤️

04/20/2025

Wishing you a happy Easter, from our family to yours ❤️

04/15/2025

Our happy place with the love of my life.

04/13/2025

Weather is nice, it's hiking time 🐾

04/10/2025

Ivar frequently practices dogo-yoga. He says stretching is a very important part of starting your day.

04/04/2025

01/10/2025

Hel's philosophy is when the cold Minnesota weather has you down, you snuggle up for a night in. 🥶