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June is National Camping Month!

Posted on 01. Jun, 2012 by dsmith.

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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!We thought we would try something crazy, sleep in a tent with our 4 dogs for the entire month of June. That is 30 straight nights in a tent. I have been a camper all of my life, [...]

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MY ADS DON’T WORK AND IT’S YOUR FAULT!

Posted on 16. May, 2012 by dsmith.

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Getting an ad to work whether it is in print, radio, online, TV or even a billboard takes talent, timing and money. There is so much involved in coming up with an ad campaign and designing an ad that is good. That is why 90% (that is just my humble percentage) of the ads you [...]

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K.U. student, Carrie Elaine Scanlon, honors me and Bark For Life in a class journalism project.

Posted on 07. May, 2012 by dsmith.

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I was honored to be able to emcee this year’s Bark for Life Kansas event. I was also honored when I received an email from a University of Kansas Journalism student, Carrie Scanlon, requesting an interview for a school project. Through her research on the Bark for Life event she discovered I was also celebrating [...]

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An idea introduced to a population almost always fades away.

Posted on 01. Mar, 2012 by dsmith.

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Paw Prints generates 100% of its revenue from the sale of advertising to businesses that would like to promote their products and services. Because of that we are always on the look out for new ideas and information. You really can’t be an expert in your field unless you are always educating yourself. There is [...]

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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Posted on 22. Feb, 2012 by dsmith.

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A local pet store partners with a shelter and both the business and the shelter are bashed for it.

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EZY Does It

Posted on 16. Jan, 2012 by dsmith.

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In our never ending quest to find you products that actually work and work well, we asked EZYDOG to help us out with an ongoing issue we have. The issue is multiple dog syndrome or MDS. The root cause of MDS is trying to walk our unruly pack of mutts. We have 4 dogs in [...]

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How does advertising really work?

Posted on 07. Jan, 2012 by dsmith.

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For anyone out there that owns a business and thinks advertising doesn’t work (which in the small and micro business community is 99% of you), I am going tell you a quick story on how advertising actually works in the real world. This event happened today, 01.06.2012.
We have had a co-host on the air with [...]

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A Man and His Breed Remembered

Posted on 09. Dec, 2011 by dsmith.

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This was an article we published in 2004 and was our cover story for the November 2004 issue. Since the story was originally written, the human subject of the article, Frank Catania, passed away (he died December 3rd 2008). One of his best friends emailed us recently… here is his letter and the article that prompted him to write us.

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Safety tips for autumn hikes and camping.

Posted on 20. Oct, 2011 by dsmith.

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By Dale Smith
There is nothing better than the crisp air of autumn and that tell-tale, wonderful aroma in the air of the decomposing foliage. For us, the cooler temperatures make it the perfect time of the year to gather up the mutts and leashes, load up the car and take off for a campground or [...]

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Is Your Gal A Girly Girl?

Posted on 19. Oct, 2011 by dsmith.

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By Dale Smith
So you’re the real outdoorsy type; that is actually the very thing that attracted your wife or girlfriend to you in the first place. You’re always wearing that two-day unshaven look and pulling it off… even in a suit. You and your pooch were always off doing cool outdoor things, camping, hiking, backpacking, [...]

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This isn’t your parents’ camp box.

Posted on 29. Aug, 2011 by dsmith.

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By Dale E Smith
Campers always know that when the camp box is loaded a trip to the great outdoors is soon to follow. Anyone that has car camped in a tent knows what a camp box is and that they come in many shapes and sizes. I started tent camping in the late 60’s, my [...]

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The Paha Que Wilderness Promontory 2 Room 8 Person Cabin tent.

Posted on 29. Aug, 2011 by dsmith.

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By Dale E Smith
The Promontory Mountains is a mountain range in Box Elder County in Utah. They climb to 6,512 feet (1,984.86 meters) above sea level. The range is oriented north-south and has a length of about 35 miles (56 km). The southern portion forms a cape extending 20 miles (32 km) south into the [...]

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When you gotta go, you gotta go.

Posted on 29. Aug, 2011 by dsmith.

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Over the last few years, camping with pets has brought up an issue I never had to worry about before. The issue is what to do with your pets when someone has to run up to the campground shower house or, in more primitive campgrounds, the vault toilet. Here is the scenario; you wake up, [...]

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I have new backpacks for me and my dog but what do I put in them?

Posted on 27. Jul, 2011 by dsmith.

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By Dale E. Smith
You want to head out with your favorite 4-legged friend and hit the trail for a few days. You have a new backpack for yourself and one for your dog, but now that you’ve started packing you find that there is no way in the world that all this “stuff” will fit [...]

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Do Metro Pet Magazine’s Policies Hurt Pet Charities?

Posted on 09. Jun, 2011 by dsmith.

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By Dale E. Smith
There have been many darts thrown at me the last couple of years. All of them directed my way for speaking my mind when it comes to animal charities, shelters and rescues, even though Paw Prints has supported ALL local animal charities since our inception in 2004. Paw Prints, whether in print, [...]