Opening Day 2012: Who You Rootin’ For?

It’s opening day for Americas past time. 2430 games on tap this season.  Sure the NFL is now America’s game, at least on TV. Even with an annoying Collinsworth on NBC it is hard to beat Sunday Night in America. But there are a lot of baseball fans out there. Games are on almost every […]

Vintage 1971

Like a great whiskey, fine wines, and maybe prime beef, they say things get better with age? But do they? I am 41 years old today. At 9:05 pm over four decades ago I came into this world to two parents full of hope and optimism of great things to come. I was their first […]

I’m a 1%er!

I’m a 1%er! No, not an outlaw biker gang member that uses the moniker to distinguish themselves as the bad of the bad. Actually I am a 1%er in the eyes of the State of Alaska. In 2010, Alaska’s population grew by 1.7%. Of Alaska’s 29 boroughs and census areas, 24 grew between the 2010 […]

Holiday Pet Safety

My name is Robert Forto and I am the training director of Denver Dog Works and Alaska Dog Works. I am asked all the time about holiday do’s and don’ts from pet owners. While I always offer an article right around Christmas about training Christmas puppies I thought it would be wise to offer some tips to pet owners on […]

A Christmas Puppy for a Gift? Maybe Not

A Christmas Puppy for a Gift? Maybe Not Events of this Christmas will have a profound impact on the dog training industry in April. All those cute puppy-in-a-stocking photos prompt unsuspecting people to give dogs as gifts, inevitably resulting in a high rate of premium business for me and my colleagues. A Christmas Puppy? Maybe […]

The Daily Post: Those that believe

Today’s Daily Post topic is simple. Finish this sentence: There are two kinds of people in this world, those that… Well, in the spirit of the season who could not use the reference to Santa. There are two kinds of people in this world, those that believe and those that don’t. A clip from The […]

Fireworks in the land of the midnight sun?

If you are a tourist heading up to Denali National Park along the highway from Anchorage you have undoubtedly seen the fireworks stands that dot the landscape as you head into Houston, Alaska. There are at least four of them–you have a couple small guys and then the grand daddy of them all, Gorilla Fireworks. […]

Happy Father’s Day Ugly Kid Joe Style

I am the proud father of three great kids.  I know it might be a bit pervasive to write about myself on dad’s day but this is meant to be a tribute to all father’s out there. To my dad, Nick. To my step-father and the man who taught me how to be a man, […]

The Daily Post: Dreams

Today’s Daily Post topic: Write about a recurring dream you have All of us have nightmares. Many of us are too afraid to talk about them. Some of these dreams cause insomnia some conger images that we would rather forget. Many say that dreams (and nightmares) are our repressed thoughts and desires of our subconscious. […]

Mushing–Alaska Style: Raegans first team run

Raegan–Gray and white female on the left When we got Raegan from a good freind of our’s, April Wood, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California last summer we were hoping that she would fit right in to a team and become a sled dog. Last winter we tested her out with a couple dogs […]