Sunday, February 21, 2016

Welcome!

Hello and welcome to my Blog!

First of all, this blog isn’t an expert blog. It won’t be overflowing with an abundant amount of information that is based off of facts or experts’ knowledge in regards to raising a dog. What this blog will be full of, though, is advice based off real-life experiences from a first time dog owner; a dog owner who is currently a full-time student, working 25-30 hours a week while being involved with a few different organizations on campus.  In the last year that I’ve had my dog, Kyzer, I have learned more about dogs and being an owner than I ever learned by researching about it. No matter how much you read about it, or how much you think you already know about it, nothing will prepare you better, or teach you as well than first-hand experience. That’s why, through this blog, I don’t just want to repeat expert advice, but what I actually did do—through trial and error—that either worked (or didn’t work) in raising my own dog. Despite what I had originally believed, raising a dog is hard. And it is especially hard if you are a full-time student who’s working part time who doesn’t even know what to do with your own life, let alone know much about raising a dog. 

This blog is designed to be a guide for someone in a similar situation—current student or recent graduate—who either has already gotten a dog or is just considering it and, like me, has NO idea what they are getting themselves into. By no means should you take what I say over any expert or vet’s advice. But what I share are experiences I had in various different topics that may not be as efficient as what experts may suggest, but they worked. And sometimes when you are a college student you just need something simple and easy that works.

And with this blog being about my dog—the most important thing in my life who I love very dearly and can talk about for hours—it is only appropriate that some posts will be from his point of view. Because if you’re as much of a dog fanatic as me, who doesn’t love funny posts from the perspective of a dog? ;)

So before I conclude this first post, I want to end with introducing myself and also the star of this blog. My name is Kathryn and I currently am studying Marketing and Advertising/Public Relations at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. My boyfriend and I got my dog, Kyzer, when he was just 8-weeks old. That was about two Christmas ago, and our bundle of fluff is now almost 16 months old. 


Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you'll come again soon to read about the Adventures of Raising an Aussie.

~Kathryn and Kyzer

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