Beagles saved from a caged life experience freedom for the first time!

A Beagle rescue group gives these little guys a shot at freedom and adoption after living their whole lives at a laboratory in a cage. Now we get to see these lucky dogs take their first steps outside their cage in the grass.
It's always great to see good humans giving dogs the chance they deserve at a happy life! Hopefully these pups will get to really see what it's like to be a dog, and run off-leash in the hills with their pals on awesome adventures.

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Watch A Bunch Of Dogs Experience Sunlight And Grass For The First Time

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Videos!

Last week at Dimond Canyon on our adventure hike, Levon the border collie lab mix found a toy to entertain himself.

Sandy our yellow lab demands to be fed after every single hike. Here she is jabbering away as I try to ignore her impolite insistence :) This ActionDog needs a lot of calories to replenish her energy after a good hike with the pack. 

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Happy Veteran's Day to all our Canine Service Dogs!

A big thanks from Action Dog! We know that the people who serve this country would not want to do it without their canine counterparts - dogs who work and risk their own lives alongside their fellows to ensure that they've got support and companionship along the way. 

http://www.militaryworkingdogs.com/history.shtml

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Photo update - dog walking galore! We've been busy....

Dogs have been keeping us busy - they always need to be walked, or as we prefer - action adventured!! ;) Exercising our beasts is always a fulltime gig, we don't take days off from running the pups around because a tired dog is a super happy dog, and we love coming home to pooped out pooches. Here's some of the latest photos from the action pack on the trail and in the parks, and some of the "after"shots!

Muttley! The new kid on the block - he's a neighbor of ours, and loves chasing frisbees!

Cooper! Big wiggly boy, he's a slobber factory and very happy to play!

Jeff soaks up a beautiful weekend day at Ft Funston.

Fibi! Feebsters... Feeberino... Feebinacci!!

Sandy, post-hike frogging.

Titus Maximus - full frontal mid-hike frog extraordinaire. 

Monkee- cool grass is so satisfying!

Kenai - post hike bliss :) 

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Pet Appreciation Party @ The Bond!

The Original Action Dog!

Action Dog! was in full force attendance this weekend at an awesome event: one of our clients' cool apartment building threw the dogs their very own party at The Bond! The lucky pups were pampered with their own portrait photographer, agility training, treats, a neat raffle, an owner-dog lookalike contest, and lots of love.

Our girl Sandy donned her alter-ego super costume and was the perfect Action Dog! mascot. Our buddies Juan and Diego showed everyone how much fun it is to be in our pack too. Also in attendance were the nice folks from the service A Lucky Dog and Lori from Pawderosa Pet Care showing off her really neat tool Off Doggy! to help train those beasts from jumping up.

Also representing the network of great East Bay pet care providers was the Montclair Holistic Veterinary Clinic up on Piedmont. I'm sure all our dogs would love to take a dip in their puppy hot tub!

We were really grateful to have been invited to the exclusive puppy party at the Bond. Congratulations to Asti for winning the contest for best owner lookalike, and thanks to Sheila for the Mimosas! Now off to the hills for more playing :)

Diego shows us how to hang on!

The Boyz!

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Hey from the hills!

Hey from Oakland! It's been a while since we've posted an update, and our dog lives have sure been busy. We've signed up a couple new clients lately and have gotten to know the now veteran pack dogs a bit better every day. Frenchies Molly & Titus have come a long ways with us, sometimes literally! Here's a great shot of Titus being himself, stop drop and frog on Curran trail in Tilden.

Frog butt.

And we said goodbye to a couple of really great packmasters this week, Chica moved away to Sacramento with her mom and we'll miss her, but hopefully get a visit now and then. Here's a shot of her lolling around on the ground with Kenai, Quinn, Diego & Asti during a quick dirt break on the Claremont fire trail in Berkeley.

What do you think this is, Relax-tion Dog!?

Shoola! We'll miss you!

Shoola made a move to bigger and better things last week too, she had a long and happy life and we'll miss her smiling face and bounding energy on our hikes, but we know she's running around doing great things on her next big adventure.

Zoe, Diego & Asti

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MacDonald trail hike

Cosmo!

 Here's some awesome shots of the action dog pack today, we hiked at MacDonald trail off of the Parkridge Staging Area in Anthony Chabot Regional Park in the north Oakland hills. 

It's a fantastic trail for days like today - with trusty pack veterans Monkee and Kenai, and the newbs Reina & Rochit and Cosmo, we hiked a good way in since it was the last walk of the day and we didn't have any time restrictions. 

It's a good sloped trail, but nicely shaded and covered most of the way with lots of good spots to take shade breaks when it's hot out. Everyone met all the other dogs on the trail very politely; it was pretty popular with other dog walkers and they got to meet lots of waggers on their adventure.

Kitsu

Kenai chills

Reina

Group pose!

Monkee

Rochit blowing bubbles

Rochit taunting Monkee

Cosmo so proper!

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