Five Fun Ways To Finish Summer With Your Dog
It may be the first of August, but if you live in the South, you know summer is far from over. There are still a few weeks left until it’s time to go back to school, and I fully expect Mother Nature to hit us with at least one more heat wave (probably just in time...
Matlacha: A Dog Friendly Fishing Village With An Art Problem
In 2014, I spent about two months in Ft. Myers, Florida. After only two weeks in town, I was introduced as a regular at Bonita Bill’s. Soon thereafter I met the folks at the dog-friendly Sea Gypsy Inn and began attending “secret meetings.” “Secret meeting” is...
Follow the Paws: Dog Friendly Places in New Smyrna Beach
By the time we hit New Smyrna Beach, we’d been gone from home for 14 days. We’d visited Destin, Crystal Springs, Ft. Meyers Beach, and now we had one more chance to stall and an official dog beach to put our paws on before beginning the journey back to Arkansas. ...
Detours With Dogs: Three Florida Backroads You Need To Take
When Henri and I left home in Arkansas on December 20th, 2018, we were supposed to be heading to Memphis for an overnight Christmas adventure, including a carriage ride through the Starry Nights light exhibit at Shelby Farms. A rainy forecast pretty much ruined...
Explore. Sleep. Repeat. at the Dog Friendly Wanderoo Lodge
This is a story. A story about how one night in Eureka Springs, Arkansas became two; celebrating birthdays with strangers became partying with friends; and how the Joy Motel became the Wanderoo Lodge. Tim Freeman, owner of the newly remodeled Wanderoo Lodge,...
Standard vs Inflatable SUP When Paddling With Your Pooch
Recently I visited a girlfriend who lives on Lake Murray, SC. While there, we decided to take the jet skis across the lake to a restaurant for lunch. It’s been twenty years since I’ve been on a jet ski. Somewhere between zooming across a lake at 23 years old with...
How To Survive July 4th with Your Dog: Book A Room
Prior to 2016, I'd never noticed Henri being especially fearful of fireworks. I mean, he didn't like them- what dog does?!- but he wasn't traumatized. It was that year, on the 4th of July that I came home from a cookout to discover a trembling, fearful, hot mess of a...
About Denise
Denise Holmes is a professional pet trainer, known for her spunky personality and training concept Love. Trust. Teach. Outgoing and full of Southern charm, Denise has an innate ability to find the fun, and fun people, in most any situation. 
