About Me
Any health care links or articles at Way Cool Dogs are NOT meant to replace a veterinarian visit! PLEASE take your dog to a vet immediately at any sign of odd behavior or severe symptoms of illness or injury. Call your vet and describe your dog’s symptoms with any of your concerns about their well-being. Your veterinarian may discover changes in your dog’s health that you have overlooked. This is an educational web site meant to inform the dog owner about health, diet, or training to better care for their pet.
Thank you,
Nancy Houser
Way Cool Dogs is a daily blog full of dog information, coming at you from Central Nebraska on all four furry little feet! Our daily dog blog involves funny stories from Holly’s Neighborhood — and the viewpoint of a very busy little dachshund named Miss Holly Higgins; lots and lots of photographs and videos; dog jokes; dog health and research related articles; dog product reviews; and up-to-date dog news and information. In fact we’re so cool, we even share the limelight with cat stories, jokes and a few photographs!
We started NE PETS Meals on Wheels with a hub of volunteers throughout the state for struggling Nebraska families and individuals who have pets and have lost their job, are elderly, have health problems, or are disabled. (Click on the picture to the right for more information)
Not only can you have our daily posts downloaded to your computer every day, but we also Twitter under “waycooldogs” and Facebook under “Nancy Houser”. Join the team and stay abreast with what is going on in the dog world in all phases!
- National Dog Blog Carnival #6 Coming Up!!
Once a month we sponsor a National Dog Blog Carnival, an online meet where lots and lots of dog bloggers share their favorite blog article of their favorite dog blog post with the viewers. If you have a blog that pertains to animals, dogs or anything furry–sign up for the next month’s carnival by sending the URL to nancy@waycooldogs.com. Deadlines are the last day of the month, with the carnival up and running by the 4th of the next month.
If you would like to see something else added or your needs are just not being met, just let me know and we will go and drag it in for ya’ with our tails wagging! Use the Contact page or if it is about the National Dog Blog Carnival held the first of every month, email me at nancy@waycooldogs.com.
PERSONAL TID’BITS
- Author of the website: Nancy L. Young-Houser
- Co-Writer: Sandra S. Marquiss
- I am a mother of three grown sons, a grandmother of 13 grandchildren, great-grandmother to one great-granddaughter.
- I was born in North Platte, NE and have spent most of my life on the Nebraska’s Central plains and in Wyoming –except for a short time in California and New Jersey as a young child.
- Along with Sandra Marquiss, we run a rescue center for elderly dogs and high-behavior dogs which involves our lives on a 24/7 schedule!
- We write, draw and read in our spare time…. whenever we find the time!
THE REST OF THE STORY
Loving art since I was in the second grade, I have been involved in the fine art field since I was a young child. Over the years, I have placed in several art shows, winning first and second prize in the “Wyoming Abstract Art Show” in Casper, Wyoming. I was also art director of Galeons Lap in Newcastle WY, a screen-printing and advertising agency from 1989 to 1999.
I have written professionally for the past four years online as a copyrighter and for online blogs and websites (A Mars Odyssey until it ended). A serious Internet junkie and avid reader of pretty much anything and everything, I have been labeled as a prolific writer who has her fingers in just about everything—truer words were never spoken!
- I love my family, my friends, and all the rescue animals.
- I love art work, whether I am looking at it, creating it or writing about it.
- I love to read historical books and fiction books about the development of our country during the 1800s–especially in the Central Plains. Pretty sure it’s my age kicking in, as my elderly mother ALWAYS loving reading about history when she got older.
- I love research and finding about anything I do not already know.
- I love to learn about people and life.
- I love to learn about dogs and anything that pertains to them!
FAVORITE MOVIES
- Marley and Me
- Dreams are Made of This
- A Brilliant Mind
- The Hobbit Series
- The Lord of the Rings
- Shrek series
- Anything and everything by JRR Tolkien or CS Lewis
FAVORITE MUSIC
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Josh Groban
- Buddah Mantras
- Kitaro
FAVORITE BOOKS
- The Jane Kirkpatrick series
- Kim Vogel Sawyer series
- Anything written by Torkom Saraydarian
- All of Depok Chapra’s works
- JRR Tolkien or CS Lewis books
MOST ADMIRED PERSON IN THE WORLD
- Dr. Stephen Hawkings
Greetings from Sydney, Australia.
I’m sorry to rain on your picnic, but Chanel is NOT the world’s oldest dog, and needs to live much longer to justify the title. Many dogs are (or were) older than Chanel.
Guinness Book of World Records requires written proof of all claims, which rules out many older animals.
OhmyNewsInternational has published a story I wrote about the world’s oldest dog, an Australian sheepdog which lived for 29 years, five months and seven days.
See http://tinyurl.com/cpvx7n
You are welcome to copy it.
Cheers, Eric.
POSTSCRIPT: Chanel’s owner, Denice Shaughnessy, has just told me “What you fail to mention in your article is that NONE of the other dogs can prove their age. The people who owned the dogs can say the dog is 100 but unless you can prove it it doesn’t make it so. Being that Chanel can prove her age then she is the oldest dog according to Guinness.”
[Eric Shackle is a retired Australian journalist whose hobby is searching the Internet and writing about it. He is a featured writer for the South Korean citizen reporters' journal OhmyNewsInternational http://tinyurl.com/aq7kgt
He is also copy editor of Anu Garg's Seattle-based A Word A Day http://wordsmith.org newsletter, which is e-mailed five days a week to more than 700,000 wordlovers in 200 countries.]
We just discovered your blog and after reading about your love of dogs, and with 13 grandchildren, we would like to send you a complimentary copy of Planet Of The Dogs, the first book in our Planet of the Dogs series.
This illustrated series of first chapter fantasy-adventure books is for children and dog lovers of all ages.
You can preview the book in advance. For sample chapters and information on the series, please visit http://www.planetofthedogs.net.
For information on the concepts behind our books and our involvement in therapy dog reading programs, please visit http://barkingplanet.typepad.com.
Please reply to our email address — barkingplanet@aol.com — with a postal address and we will be pleased to send you the book.
Best wishes,
Robert McCarty
Barking Planet Productions
PS Planet Of The Dogs was a book of the month selection by Dogster’s Dog Eared Book Club and received an excellent review on the Dogster Blog
Are you going to publish waycoolcats?????? I have four!
I guess I don’t know! haah! But I have put in pictures and stories of cats in waycooldogs, as I also have cats!