Archive for the ‘Video’ Category

This short video shows the trip I made with our dogs to Colorado’s largest waterfall, Bridal Veil Falls in Telluride.  You can hike about 2.5 miles from town, or you can drive a single lane dirt road (4-wheel-drive recommended).  Bring water if you hike, bring your camera either way. It’s a relatively safe hike for dogs with the usual precautions, and don’t let them off leash near the waterfall!

It is really spectacular!   The house on top is privately owned and the waterfall generates electricity for the town of Telluride (wikipedia).  Is it called Bridal Veil Falls due to its resemblance of a bride’s veil.

Summer through Fall is the best time for a comfortable hike.  I recommend putting Telluride on your list of places to see before you die!  It’s one of the most beautiful places in the Rocky Mountains.

The Park Bench Cafe in Huntington Beach, CA has an actual menu just for dogs!  The people food is really good, I ordered a veggie omelette. It was quite tasty, especially after our morning visit to the Huntington Dog Beach. One of the great things about this place is it’s right on the way to or from the HB dog beach and also less than mile from the Huntington Dog Park. This place is quite popular with all of us dog lovers, so be prepared for a wait at peak times.  Trust me, it’s well worth the wait for the good food and the fun experience!  Watch the video for our experience there, and ”check it out” with your dog sometime!

Check out this video of a recent visit to the Huntington Beach Dog Park I made with McMoose and Kanga. You can see the location on our interactive map.

A trip to Huntington Beach with your dog is not complete without a visit to arguably one of the best dog parks around. It’s close to the ocean so it stays cool year-round with nice ocean breezes. There are large and small dog areas, lots of water, shade and plenty of room for the dogs and us owners to have a good time.

One of the reasons I enjoy going to dog parks, is that I find everyone is generally happy and in a good mood when they are with their dogs. It’s also a blast to “talk shop” about dogs with all the other dog owners.

What it’s like at the Huntington Beach’s Dog Beach on an early weekday morning?  This video shows one of my favorite times to visit the dog beach.  There’s usually more surfers than dogs in the early morning. I find it to be very peaceful and relaxing.  It’s a good way to tire the dogs out for the day. Or, in my case, a good way to tire the dog out before I hit the waves myself.

Contrast this peaceful weekday setting, to a busy summer weekend here.  You’ll hardly recognize the place.

This video shows some footage from a busy summer weekend at the dog beach in Huntington Beach.  If you enjoy people and dog watching, the crowds peak at Dog Beach during the summer on weekends.  I find it to be very entertaining and an all around blast to see so many people and dogs having a great time together. So check it out if you don’t mind a lot of people and dogs, summer is a great time to visit.

Check my other video blog posting on how different it is on an early weekday morning at the same beach.  You’d hardly recognize it as being the same place.

We literally searched for months (myself, Jennifer and our two boys) for just the right buddy for our family and McMooose (our 3 yr old lab) at various dog adoption agencies and shelters.  We’d find the perfect dog online, only to show up and it had already been placed with a family (a really good thing actually!).

While at the Surfin’ Paws dog surfing contest we finally saw the perfect dog for us at The Pet Rescue Center booth.  After completing the application process and a trial visit, we knew she was coming home with us!  She is now a member of our family. She is really keeping McMoose active as they chase each other around the yard. Now maybe McMoose can shed those few extra pounds.

This video shows her first swim which was a success — if only for a few seconds. You can see an even higher-definition version on youtube.

Watch closely the very end when McMoose takes off — soaking wet — with Kanga at his tail. The two mischief makers get water and sand all over two sleeping sunbathers. The sunbathers jumped up in shock but weren’t too mad after we apologized. I wish we had a better clip of this incident on film.

Here’s a short video of me and McMoose with some nice Grand-Canyon-type scenery taken along the roadside in Utah, somewhere between I-70 & I-15.  The cliff drop-offs were scary enough, but McMoose kept hearing animals noises (squirrels and birds and such) he thought worthy of a chase.  Glad I had him on a leash!

How easy is it to teach a dog to surf? Not easy at all! This video shows my attempts to teach our Labrador McMoose to surf.  McMoose normally loves the water (have you ever met a lab that didn’t?), but he wanted nothing to do with the big waves this day. Needless to say, we had no success.  Excuse the noisy waves crashing in the background and turn up your volume a bit before you watch.  If you have had success at teaching your dog to surf, and you have it on video, email the link as I’d love to check it out. (Or tweet a link to @kyjenkyle on twitter.)