March 15, 2025 • 34 mins
Blogger, free-lance writer and editor, CeliaSue Hecht, joined me to talk about her very popular blog, Have Dog Blog Will Travel. We talked about her inspiration to create a blog, what it takes to be a successful writer and blogger and the types of articles and advice are featured on her blog. During the podcast, I talked with CeliaSue about some of the trips that she and her dog, Cici, have taken and what it has been like to travel with Cici. Traveling with your beloved pet can be very fulfilling. If you’ve ever taken a journey with your furry friend, this interview will provide you with inspiration to share your adventure with the world.
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Welcome to Animal rights on pet Life Radio. This is
your host, Tim Link, and I thank you so much
for joining us today. My guest today is freelance writer,
blogger and editor Cilia Sue hect and Celia Sue will
be on here talking to us today about her blog,
Have Dog Blog Will Travel, which includes her life and
times with her dog Ceci and a lot of other
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helpful articles and advice and tips. Great great site, so
we'll give everybody the website later to check it out.
But before we get Cilia Sue on board, I always
like to give everybody helpful hints, tips, ideas, things that
I think they are interesting and I'm sure you'll find
them interesting as well. And one of the topics that
came out recently, especially we're getting into the springtime is
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how often do I bathe my dog? How often should
we be bathing our dogs? Some people think it should
be a daily occurrence, because I say anything, like my dogs,
they can get into a lot of dirt and muck
and things in the backyard. But you've got to be
careful about bathing them too much because you want to
bathe out all those those wonderful oils and things that
make hurt. They're coat conditioned well. So you know when
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I always tell people that it really depends on your
pets that you have and the preference, so the type
of dog you have and your personal preference. So for me,
I have a Schnauzer Schnauzer in our family, and our
beautiful boy is a wonderful dog. And for the most part,
you know, his head and his back are often groomed
very short, so they stay fairly clean, and they don't
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attract much of the environment or any of the stray
things that attached to a dog when they're out in
about in the backyard or taking a long walk. However,
he does have a long beard, and he does have
a long skirt, so he's around his feet and his
legs and underneath his belly there's this long skirt and
that seems to attract everything, every leaf, every stick, every
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dirt particle in his big backyard. So I tell people
that some of the things to consider when determining if
it's the right time to bathe your dog should include
your dog's hair or coat type, the length of the coat,
where he or she spends most of their time, whether
mostly indoors or the outdoors, the shedding cycle. As we're
getting the warmer weather, we're gonna see a lot more
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shedding and allergens. Both through allergens and allergens the dog
may have to the environment as well as any skin
issues that you're aware of that your dog may have.
So some dogs need bathe only a few times a year,
if you can believe that or not, they absolutely do,
while others need weekly bathing. One of the things you
can definitely do to help out is to brush your
dog out regularly to help maintain the coat and avoid
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any mats in the fur and keep your dog clean.
And I believe that bathing your dog every month is reasonable.
I think that's fair enough. If you've gotten into some
excess trouble or dirt out there, if you've gone on
a long walk, you man or bathing a little bit sooner.
But I think once a month is definitely a good
rule of thumb. Some dogs, as I said earlier, may
need to be bathed more frequently and need to be
Some may need to be fully groomed in a more
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regular baits. So you know, once again, the good rule
of thumb is to bathe your pet when its coke
gets dirty and the dog begins to smell like a dog.
You know, you can also consult your local groom or
your favorite groom, or your veterinarian for further advice and tips.
And as always you can go to the animal Rights
blog and animal Rights site on pet Life Radio and
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learn a little bit more about this. So keep those
dogs bathed and groom make sure they don't smell like
a dog, and you're gonna be good to go. It's
a little helpful advice for their uncle Tim there. So
we're gonna go to a quick little break up, but
we're gonna come right back with Celia, Sue Heckt and
the dog Cec to talk about all their wonderful travels
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Welcome back, Welcome back here listening to animal rights on
pet Life Radio and joining me now is freelance writer, blogger, editor,
and doggie aficionado Sola Sue heck Say. Sue's here to
talk to us about her dog, Ceci, and all the
wonderful travels that she's had and experiences she said with Ceci,
and all the other tips and advice she had as
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now the city. Sue's work has been featured in more
than forty publications, including The Bay Area Wolf, Petfolio and Entrepreneur,
and you can obviously see her and learn a little
bit more about her as well as all the wonderful
tips and escapades by going to her blog site, Have
Dog Blog, Will Travel, So you Sue Hack, Welcome to
Animal Rights on pet Life Radio.
Speaker 10 (07:21):
Thank you, Kim. I'm looking forward to talking to you.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Oh, my pleasure, My pleasure too. It's it's always great.
And obviously I've had a chance to converse with you
in the past and had a chance to talk to
CC and and give you a little bit of tidbit there.
And I just think your blog site's wonderful. So, you know,
tell us a little bit about how had Dog Blog
We'll Travel. I'll get this out sooner, or Lanter had
Dog Blog Travel, I'll say it mustle of Times blog.
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Tell us about the site and how that, how that
came about?
Speaker 10 (07:49):
Yeah, sure, Well about three years ago people were telling
me you have to have a blog. You're a writer,
and I didn't know what a blog was. And I
have co owthor fibromantic travel guides. You know, I've been
a travel writer in the past and you know, done
some of that and I thought, oh, that would be fun.
But let's instead of writing romance, how about writing about
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my dog. At the time, my dog had just been
run over by a car and she was she had
to be constrained for a few months. So we were
sort of in this in this place of where, Oh,
my gosh. You know, if you've ever had any kind
of problems with your dog like that, when they've had
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an illness or an accident, you know what I'm talking about.
And so I had to I had to keep her,
you know, quiet, and so on and so forth, and
which mant also that I couldn't go very far anywhere,
and basically, so I kept her teathered in the house
to keep her from running and jumping anywhere. She had
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a broken kerfema bone and had to have free surgeries
on the leg, so we had to keep the leg quiet.
And so during that time I started a blow and
was dreaming about all the travels we had done previous
to that. And we were living in Nevada at the time.
Now we're living in California, but we had traveled to
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Oregon that past summer, and we had traveled to different
places in Nevada and California, so I wrote about our
everyday life as well as the travels you know, that
we had done. And then within a few short months,
I'd say about six months, we actually started traveling again
and traveled for about two years. So the blog just
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became a way to share with people about all the
different places that we went to. And we visited Mendocina,
we visited it everywhere in California, from Mendosino down to
southern California, San Diego, so and all the places in between.
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And so what I found kind of missing from other
places on pets Online about travel was, I, you know,
there are a lot of places and they usually tell
you about their advertisers, but they don't really tell they
don't really tell you about the other bed breakfasts and
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inns and hotels and kind of out of the way places.
So we actually found about seventy five to eighty places,
very few of which are listed on any of the
regular pet Friendly go to sites of where to stay.
And we were invited to stay at just amazing places
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and got to have many, many fun adventures. And I
came up with the Bay Area. Woolf asked me to
write some articles and I wrote one article about Doggitude,
I found that a lot of places that say pet
friendly hotels and inns and bed and breakfast say that
they're pet friendly, but they really weren't.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, they don't want to. As long as you keep
your pet locked up and it doesn't bark or pant
or anything that.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
Yeah, as long as look a breath, As long as
your dog doesn't breathe, you know, it's fine. And you
know they have breed restrictions or they have they have
to be under twenty five pounds or they have to
you know, right, So I came up with a system
I call Doggitude of rating you know, places which you know,
really tells people if they really are dogfully or not.
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You know, some of them really are. Some of them
are amazing at the extent of their dog friendliness with
you know, dog menus and dog massage and dog yoga
and all kinds of pampering. So that's really wonderful. But
also what's important, I think is the staff. You know,
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do they really know anything about pets and where to
go in activities in the area and so on and
so forth, And you know a lot of them do,
but some of them don't at all. So we you know,
we we may quite a few really interesting discoveries and
found places that people wouldn't normally think to take their dog.
For instance, Ceci is a real well, I guess I
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should tell you a little bit about my girl. She's
four and a half years old. I rescued her when
she was six months old. She's part Dalmatian and part
of American pitbull terrier. She's a real social butterfly. She
loves people. Anywhere we go, she loves people. So I
found that taking her to a mall into stores where
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they allow dogs is you know, just one of her
favorite things to do to get shopping. You know, who
doesn't like to go shopping, But you know, most people
feel like they can't really go shopping with their dog.
And I found, you know, so many places, you know,
different chains as well as regular stores. I'm we're here
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in the Carmel, Monterey area. There's a shopping center called
the Delmanti Shopping Center and Macy's Borders. All these places
allow dogs to come inside their store.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Wow, most people.
Speaker 10 (13:08):
Would wouldn't think to bring that. Yeah, so it's kind
of nice. And you know, everybody knows Carmel and Mendocino
are kind of dog crazy and outside the dogs have
their water bowls and you can eat with the dogs
in the restaurants.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, just a little pamper fooches, pamperoo is.
Speaker 10 (13:25):
There exactly exactly, But you know, you would be surprised
at how other you know, people always say, are you kidding?
You can bring your dog here, so you know, they're
even surprised that, like we'll sit in a lobby. Let's say,
have a hotel that allows dogs, and people didn't even
know that that hotel allows you to bring dogs in there.
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So you know, we kind of she's a very ambassador
for her breed. Number one, because she's very very friendly
and people and she's adorable, so people just love her
right away. And number two, she just is an ambassador
for the hotels to you know, let people know, yes,
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we are a pit friendly and so that makes it
a win win win for everybody.
Speaker 11 (14:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
Yeah, and you know, I mean there are some communities,
like in Mendocino and Idle Wild for instance, where they're
kind of smaller communities and they just really put out
the welcome at to the canines. You can go to
the botanical gardens with your dog up in Mendocino, tip
to tiptoe through the tulips. There's an ice cream store
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where they give pooches free ice cream in the summertime.
Oh boy, yeah, so it's you know, And so I
tell people on my blog all these kinds of pidnips.
And I have created out of our travels about a
two hundred something page traveled e guide called Canine California
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Canine Adventures, which gives you all the nitty gritty info
about where to go, where to stay, what to do
in each community. And right now we're not traveling. We
are talking though about where to go and spring break.
A spring break is coming up, and people often, you know,
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maybe you don't have college students, or you're not a
college student, but maybe you just want to get away anyway,
and if you want to get away, and maybe you
want to bring your pet. So I put out the
request to people and asking them, okay, well, where's a
good place to take your dog for spring break? Like
all over the country. And because I want to really
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expand we've basically been talking about California, maybe a little
bit in Nevada and Oregon, and I really want to
expand to the entire country. So I've written about New
York now and that was yesterday actually, and so other
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places all across the country.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, and I think it's fantastic and you can read
more about that on your site How Dog Blog will
travel it. And I think people need to know that
it's important. I know, we have our little schnauzer, Buzz,
and his brother was with us up until last year,
and he made his transition, but his brother was a
little too intense to take to place. His Buzz is
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definitely the social hound. And so the good news is,
you know, we've had opportunities to take him to places
that I didn't think would accept dogs. We had a
nice lunch last weekend on the patio of a Mexican
restaurant and so my wife and I, Yeah, my wife
and I had lunch. We asked him ahead of time.
They said sure, So we got Buzz's favorite little Matt,
put it in his chair. He sat there like a
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proper gentleman and let us eat our fahdas, and he
was good to go. He was happy with just being there,
being part of the experience.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (16:54):
You know, years ago, people used to hide their pets
or they would you get smoke filled room, and it's
it's really been changing a lot over the last years.
Millions of people. I'm trying to remember the statistic. I
think there's like eighty million people with pets in America now,
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seventy five million to eighty million.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, there are more pets in households than our children nowadays.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
So yeah, exactly. And so out of that, I would say,
you know, maybe twenty five thirty percent of people want
to travel with their pets, and so they want to
know where to go and what to do and what's
fun and you know, what's acceptable and all that, and
so you know, that's kind of our niche And I
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found also that most campgrounds in California you can bring
your pet some charge, you know, a dollar or two
a night. So people like to know all that kind
of information ahead of time.
Speaker 11 (17:58):
You know.
Speaker 10 (17:58):
They don't want to just show up in a town
and go, okay, now what do we do exactly to plant?
They like to plan and organize and you know, like
I just I thought, oh, wouldn't it be fun to
go to Amish Country in Pennsylvania for spring break and
maybe go to Hershey, you know, Hershay Park chocolate because
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no chocolate for cez. But I'm a chocoholic, right, But
then I but then I found out that that they
are not pet friendly anywhere, not even in their in
their campground.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Goodness, that's good.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
No, they have they have they have a hotel and
a motel and a campground and a bunch of things.
So dogs are not allowed except in the summertime. They
have a barking lot, which it sounds like you just
park your dog and go. But other than that, you know,
dogs aren't allowed. So that but there are amusement parks.
I'm gonna be writing about this sometime before the summer.
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There are amusement parks where dogs are allowed. And of
course service dogs are allowed wherever you go, even the supermarket.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
That's right.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
But if but if you don't have a service dog,
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a little bit more about traveling and traveling with dogs
and Cci And I want to talk to you a
little bit about your blog too, because I want to
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Welcome back, Welcome back to animal rights on pet Life Radio.
We're here today with Saya Sue Heck talking to us
a little bit about traveling with our dogs and talking
about her blog, Have Dog Blog, Will Travel Now, say you, Sue,
I know your blog has received over one hundred and
sixty eight thousand views. Let me ask you, what does
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it take do you think to be a successful writer
and a successful blogger?
Speaker 10 (22:58):
Actually too, more about we're nearing two hundred thousands.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
There, you see all in one day, and after this
show one day, that's right after the show airs will
be closer to a million. I'm sure it will happen.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
We get about ten thousand views in a month, sometimes more,
sometimes less. You know, the most we ever had was
about one thousand and one day. But what it takes
to be a successful blogger, Well, I think with any
kind of writing, you know, write about something that you love,
to write about, something that you're passionate about, and then
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you know, and then you're going to want to keep
on doing it. What I understand is that a lot
of bloggers start and they're just you know, trying to
make some money, or they're you know, think it would
be fun or whatever. But within a couple of months
or maybe a couple of weeks that they're done.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah, the exactly, they lose their momentum. They don't realize
how much work it is. And you know, if you
I'm sure if you miss a day or miss a
week without blogging, people will find another blog site to
look at.
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Well, I actually found this I have been. I was
ill last year and so there was a kind of
a time period where I was not blogging every day
like I normally do, sometimes twice a day. So there
was a time period where I was maybe blogging once
a week, and I was able to maintain my momentum
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because I had set things up ahead of time, and
I really you know, there was a decrease, don't get
me wrong, you know, to the traffic, but I had
set things up to where I had linked I get
links from other bloggers so people can go, let's say,
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to dog jaunt dot com and she writes about traveling
with her small pet. She's a small dog, so you
know they might go there, and that Mary Alice has
a link to my blog and link to my blog
from there, as well as a whole slew of other blogs,
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and so that traffic just keeps on common. Plus the
fact that at the beginning I really made a concerted
effort to promote my blog in the mainstream media as
well as online media. So there's all that out there,
and so you know, if you know how to do promotion,
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with which I do, then you know it was pretty
easy for me to get my blog promoted. Could I
have done more? Could I do more?
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (25:45):
You can always do more, because because now I see
people who started more recently, and you know, they get
more traffic than I do. But you know, what is
success to you? You kind of have to keep that
at the forefront too, you know, is you know I
don't believe in just getting traffic for the sake of traffic.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
You want people to get something out of it, walk
away with something they'll help them or help their pets.
And if you're promoting a product or service, then yeah,
get them to take a look at that too while
you're there, exactly.
Speaker 10 (26:14):
And and I've always tried to have something a picture,
a video. I try to make people laugh or I
try to inform, you know, educate people about whatever it
is that I'm writing about. And that's where I've come
from from the beginning. So I you know, I write
in that vein. I sometimes I get long winded and
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rant and rave and get on my soaf fut about
an issue like breed specific legislation. But you know, I
try to make it a fun experience for people so
that they can come and they can just listen to
a music video or you know, watch dog surfing or
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you know, something that'll make them laugh and brighten their day.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
That's a good idea. Now, I know we talked a
lot about travel and having a lot of travel connections
on the website, on the blog, but what else can
people find there if they went to take a look
at it and of course, give us, give us the
website where they can take a look at it.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
Yeah, my website is Celia Sue dot WordPress dot com
and that's the main site. And so yeah, I mean,
I just wrote somebody asked me to write not really
a product review, but just to write about feeding your
dog raw food because I've been experimenting with that. So
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I also tend to write about eco friendly things, green
friendly and you know, healthy ways to help your pet.
So I've written about homemade dog biscuits and you know,
trees and how to make them and recipes too. You know,
(27:57):
don't ever use tea tree oil. That is like one
one of the most popular blog posts I've ever written.
People are very much into alternative treatments for their pets
these days, anything from you know, massage to romotherapy, and
you know, they appreciate the tips I had at the
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I think it was during the time that Cecy was
not well. She had developed a rash and she also
had developed an ear infection, and I was considering giving
her putting tea tree oil in her ears. And thankfully,
before I did it, I talked to a friend of
(28:40):
mine and she said, no, no, no, no, no, don't
ever do this, And she told me about putting too
much tea tree oil on her dog and it had
a very bad reaction. And so I did some research
and I wrote a blog post about it, and every
single day people come to them blog post and read
(29:01):
about teacher oil. So it's it's quite interesting that, you know,
people just want to know, you know I talk. I
say that it's also about traveling through life with the dog.
A few weeks ago, my dog got skunk and I
wrote about that experience.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Did you use the old tomato juice wash?
Speaker 10 (29:25):
We did not do tuna juice. I actually found that
if you use it's a combination of hydrogen peroxide, which
sounds really terrible, but there's a whole formula that I
found that really really worked. But you know, I just
talked about the whole experience and what we went through
(29:45):
and what we did to combat the skunk. So I
was laughing when you were talking about washing your pet
because of just having had that experience a few weeks ago.
But you know, I mean dog like to get into
stinky things.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Besides that too, Yeah, they find anything stinky on the ground,
they're going to rub on it and rub in it For.
Speaker 10 (30:08):
Sure and eat or eat it, so, you know, so
I write, I you know, I write about all the
different experiences. You know, we used to go to the
dog park a lot. We don't do that anymore, but
I'll write about, you know, my dog's experiences with the
neighbor dog. You know, just kind of everyday experiences that
(30:32):
you know, probably everybody else has with their dog. But
I just you know, write about it. And especially because
I think that it's relatable to other people. They can understand,
you know, yeah, my dog does that too, Or what
should I do if my dog gets skunk? Well they
can come to my eyeblog and find.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Out that's right, that's right. Everyday common things you often
learn from your own experiences, but now you can share
them with everybody else.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
Well, I found out what to do because somebody else
had written about it, So you know, I think it's
just good to get information and first pan practical information
from people who've been there and done that. So you know,
that's what I try to provide for people. You know,
maybe they didn't come across somebody else's, but they'll come
(31:22):
across mind and they'll say, gee, whiz, what do I
do help? You know, and I get, you know, some
people who want to know, you know, let's say they're
traveling to San Diego and maybe they they're afraid that
their dog won't have a swim and what if they
get caught up in the waves, you know, So I
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try to provide you know, tips, travel tips as well
as that everyday.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Stuff that's good, that's fantastic. Well, everybody can check it out.
The blog is Have Dog Blog, Will Travel it so
Asiya Sue Heck and CC's all over that website as well.
And you go to the website which is Celia Sue
dot WordPress dot com. A C E l I A
s U E dot WordPress dot com. So say, Sue,
(32:11):
I want to thank you. It's always a pleasure talking
to you. It's a pleasure to read your site. Give
CC some big hugs from us, and we thank you
for being on Animal Rights on pet Life Radio.
Speaker 10 (32:21):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
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Check out her blog, Have Dog Blog, Will Travel and
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Welcome to Animal rights on pet Life Radio. This is
your host, Tim Link, and I thank you so much
for joining us today. My guest today is freelance writer,
blogger and editor Cilia Sue hect and Celia Sue will
be on here talking to us today about her blog,
Have Dog Blog Will Travel, which includes her life and
times with her dog Ceci and a lot of other
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helpful articles and advice and tips. Great great site, so
we'll give everybody the website later to check it out.
But before we get Cilia Sue on board, I always
like to give everybody helpful hints, tips, ideas, things that
I think they are interesting and I'm sure you'll find
them interesting as well. And one of the topics that
came out recently, especially we're getting into the springtime is
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how often do I bathe my dog? How often should
we be bathing our dogs? Some people think it should
be a daily occurrence, because I say anything, like my dogs,
they can get into a lot of dirt and muck
and things in the backyard. But you've got to be
careful about bathing them too much because you want to
bathe out all those those wonderful oils and things that
make hurt. They're coat conditioned well. So you know when
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I always tell people that it really depends on your
pets that you have and the preference, so the type
of dog you have and your personal preference. So for me,
I have a Schnauzer Schnauzer in our family, and our
beautiful boy is a wonderful dog. And for the most part,
you know, his head and his back are often groomed
very short, so they stay fairly clean, and they don't
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attract much of the environment or any of the stray
things that attached to a dog when they're out in
about in the backyard or taking a long walk. However,
he does have a long beard, and he does have
a long skirt, so he's around his feet and his
legs and underneath his belly there's this long skirt and
that seems to attract everything, every leaf, every stick, every
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dirt particle in his big backyard. So I tell people
that some of the things to consider when determining if
it's the right time to bathe your dog should include
your dog's hair or coat type, the length of the coat,
where he or she spends most of their time, whether
mostly indoors or the outdoors, the shedding cycle. As we're
getting the warmer weather, we're gonna see a lot more
(02:15):
shedding and allergens. Both through allergens and allergens the dog
may have to the environment as well as any skin
issues that you're aware of that your dog may have.
So some dogs need bathe only a few times a year,
if you can believe that or not, they absolutely do,
while others need weekly bathing. One of the things you
can definitely do to help out is to brush your
dog out regularly to help maintain the coat and avoid
(02:37):
any mats in the fur and keep your dog clean.
And I believe that bathing your dog every month is reasonable.
I think that's fair enough. If you've gotten into some
excess trouble or dirt out there, if you've gone on
a long walk, you man or bathing a little bit sooner.
But I think once a month is definitely a good
rule of thumb. Some dogs, as I said earlier, may
need to be bathed more frequently and need to be
Some may need to be fully groomed in a more
(02:59):
regular baits. So you know, once again, the good rule
of thumb is to bathe your pet when its coke
gets dirty and the dog begins to smell like a dog.
You know, you can also consult your local groom or
your favorite groom, or your veterinarian for further advice and tips.
And as always you can go to the animal Rights
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dogs bathed and groom make sure they don't smell like
a dog, and you're gonna be good to go. It's
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Welcome back, Welcome back here listening to animal rights on
pet Life Radio and joining me now is freelance writer, blogger, editor,
and doggie aficionado Sola Sue heck Say. Sue's here to
talk to us about her dog, Ceci, and all the
wonderful travels that she's had and experiences she said with Ceci,
and all the other tips and advice she had as
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now the city. Sue's work has been featured in more
than forty publications, including The Bay Area Wolf, Petfolio and Entrepreneur,
and you can obviously see her and learn a little
bit more about her as well as all the wonderful
tips and escapades by going to her blog site, Have
Dog Blog, Will Travel, So you Sue Hack, Welcome to
Animal Rights on pet Life Radio.
Speaker 10 (07:21):
Thank you, Kim. I'm looking forward to talking to you.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Oh, my pleasure, My pleasure too. It's it's always great.
And obviously I've had a chance to converse with you
in the past and had a chance to talk to
CC and and give you a little bit of tidbit there.
And I just think your blog site's wonderful. So, you know,
tell us a little bit about how had Dog Blog
We'll Travel. I'll get this out sooner, or Lanter had
Dog Blog Travel, I'll say it mustle of Times blog.
(07:46):
Tell us about the site and how that, how that
came about?
Speaker 10 (07:49):
Yeah, sure, Well about three years ago people were telling
me you have to have a blog. You're a writer,
and I didn't know what a blog was. And I
have co owthor fibromantic travel guides. You know, I've been
a travel writer in the past and you know, done
some of that and I thought, oh, that would be fun.
But let's instead of writing romance, how about writing about
(08:09):
my dog. At the time, my dog had just been
run over by a car and she was she had
to be constrained for a few months. So we were
sort of in this in this place of where, Oh,
my gosh. You know, if you've ever had any kind
of problems with your dog like that, when they've had
(08:30):
an illness or an accident, you know what I'm talking about.
And so I had to I had to keep her,
you know, quiet, and so on and so forth, and
which mant also that I couldn't go very far anywhere,
and basically, so I kept her teathered in the house
to keep her from running and jumping anywhere. She had
(08:51):
a broken kerfema bone and had to have free surgeries
on the leg, so we had to keep the leg quiet.
And so during that time I started a blow and
was dreaming about all the travels we had done previous
to that. And we were living in Nevada at the time.
Now we're living in California, but we had traveled to
(09:12):
Oregon that past summer, and we had traveled to different
places in Nevada and California, so I wrote about our
everyday life as well as the travels you know, that
we had done. And then within a few short months,
I'd say about six months, we actually started traveling again
and traveled for about two years. So the blog just
(09:36):
became a way to share with people about all the
different places that we went to. And we visited Mendocina,
we visited it everywhere in California, from Mendosino down to
southern California, San Diego, so and all the places in between.
(09:56):
And so what I found kind of missing from other
places on pets Online about travel was, I, you know,
there are a lot of places and they usually tell
you about their advertisers, but they don't really tell they
don't really tell you about the other bed breakfasts and
(10:17):
inns and hotels and kind of out of the way places.
So we actually found about seventy five to eighty places,
very few of which are listed on any of the
regular pet Friendly go to sites of where to stay.
And we were invited to stay at just amazing places
(10:38):
and got to have many, many fun adventures. And I
came up with the Bay Area. Woolf asked me to
write some articles and I wrote one article about Doggitude,
I found that a lot of places that say pet
friendly hotels and inns and bed and breakfast say that
they're pet friendly, but they really weren't.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, they don't want to. As long as you keep
your pet locked up and it doesn't bark or pant
or anything that.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
Yeah, as long as look a breath, As long as
your dog doesn't breathe, you know, it's fine. And you
know they have breed restrictions or they have they have
to be under twenty five pounds or they have to
you know, right, So I came up with a system
I call Doggitude of rating you know, places which you know,
really tells people if they really are dogfully or not.
(11:30):
You know, some of them really are. Some of them
are amazing at the extent of their dog friendliness with
you know, dog menus and dog massage and dog yoga
and all kinds of pampering. So that's really wonderful. But
also what's important, I think is the staff. You know,
(11:50):
do they really know anything about pets and where to
go in activities in the area and so on and
so forth, And you know a lot of them do,
but some of them don't at all. So we you know,
we we may quite a few really interesting discoveries and
found places that people wouldn't normally think to take their dog.
For instance, Ceci is a real well, I guess I
(12:12):
should tell you a little bit about my girl. She's
four and a half years old. I rescued her when
she was six months old. She's part Dalmatian and part
of American pitbull terrier. She's a real social butterfly. She
loves people. Anywhere we go, she loves people. So I
found that taking her to a mall into stores where
(12:34):
they allow dogs is you know, just one of her
favorite things to do to get shopping. You know, who
doesn't like to go shopping, But you know, most people
feel like they can't really go shopping with their dog.
And I found, you know, so many places, you know,
different chains as well as regular stores. I'm we're here
(12:56):
in the Carmel, Monterey area. There's a shopping center called
the Delmanti Shopping Center and Macy's Borders. All these places
allow dogs to come inside their store.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Wow, most people.
Speaker 10 (13:08):
Would wouldn't think to bring that. Yeah, so it's kind
of nice. And you know, everybody knows Carmel and Mendocino
are kind of dog crazy and outside the dogs have
their water bowls and you can eat with the dogs
in the restaurants.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, just a little pamper fooches, pamperoo is.
Speaker 10 (13:25):
There exactly exactly, But you know, you would be surprised
at how other you know, people always say, are you kidding?
You can bring your dog here, so you know, they're
even surprised that, like we'll sit in a lobby. Let's say,
have a hotel that allows dogs, and people didn't even
know that that hotel allows you to bring dogs in there.
(13:48):
So you know, we kind of she's a very ambassador
for her breed. Number one, because she's very very friendly
and people and she's adorable, so people just love her
right away. And number two, she just is an ambassador
for the hotels to you know, let people know, yes,
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we are a pit friendly and so that makes it
a win win win for everybody.
Speaker 11 (14:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
Yeah, and you know, I mean there are some communities,
like in Mendocino and Idle Wild for instance, where they're
kind of smaller communities and they just really put out
the welcome at to the canines. You can go to
the botanical gardens with your dog up in Mendocino, tip
to tiptoe through the tulips. There's an ice cream store
(14:37):
where they give pooches free ice cream in the summertime.
Oh boy, yeah, so it's you know, And so I
tell people on my blog all these kinds of pidnips.
And I have created out of our travels about a
two hundred something page traveled e guide called Canine California
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Canine Adventures, which gives you all the nitty gritty info
about where to go, where to stay, what to do
in each community. And right now we're not traveling. We
are talking though about where to go and spring break.
A spring break is coming up, and people often, you know,
(15:22):
maybe you don't have college students, or you're not a
college student, but maybe you just want to get away anyway,
and if you want to get away, and maybe you
want to bring your pet. So I put out the
request to people and asking them, okay, well, where's a
good place to take your dog for spring break? Like
all over the country. And because I want to really
(15:44):
expand we've basically been talking about California, maybe a little
bit in Nevada and Oregon, and I really want to
expand to the entire country. So I've written about New
York now and that was yesterday actually, and so other
(16:04):
places all across the country.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, and I think it's fantastic and you can read
more about that on your site How Dog Blog will
travel it. And I think people need to know that
it's important. I know, we have our little schnauzer, Buzz,
and his brother was with us up until last year,
and he made his transition, but his brother was a
little too intense to take to place. His Buzz is
(16:26):
definitely the social hound. And so the good news is,
you know, we've had opportunities to take him to places
that I didn't think would accept dogs. We had a
nice lunch last weekend on the patio of a Mexican
restaurant and so my wife and I, Yeah, my wife
and I had lunch. We asked him ahead of time.
They said sure, So we got Buzz's favorite little Matt,
put it in his chair. He sat there like a
(16:47):
proper gentleman and let us eat our fahdas, and he
was good to go. He was happy with just being there,
being part of the experience.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (16:54):
You know, years ago, people used to hide their pets
or they would you get smoke filled room, and it's
it's really been changing a lot over the last years.
Millions of people. I'm trying to remember the statistic. I
think there's like eighty million people with pets in America now,
(17:18):
seventy five million to eighty million.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, there are more pets in households than our children nowadays.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
So yeah, exactly. And so out of that, I would say,
you know, maybe twenty five thirty percent of people want
to travel with their pets, and so they want to
know where to go and what to do and what's
fun and you know, what's acceptable and all that, and
so you know, that's kind of our niche And I
(17:46):
found also that most campgrounds in California you can bring
your pet some charge, you know, a dollar or two
a night. So people like to know all that kind
of information ahead of time.
Speaker 11 (17:58):
You know.
Speaker 10 (17:58):
They don't want to just show up in a town
and go, okay, now what do we do exactly to plant?
They like to plan and organize and you know, like
I just I thought, oh, wouldn't it be fun to
go to Amish Country in Pennsylvania for spring break and
maybe go to Hershey, you know, Hershay Park chocolate because
(18:21):
no chocolate for cez. But I'm a chocoholic, right, But
then I but then I found out that that they
are not pet friendly anywhere, not even in their in
their campground.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Goodness, that's good.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
No, they have they have they have a hotel and
a motel and a campground and a bunch of things.
So dogs are not allowed except in the summertime. They
have a barking lot, which it sounds like you just
park your dog and go. But other than that, you know,
dogs aren't allowed. So that but there are amusement parks.
I'm gonna be writing about this sometime before the summer.
(18:56):
There are amusement parks where dogs are allowed. And of
course service dogs are allowed wherever you go, even the supermarket.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
That's right.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
But if but if you don't have a service dog,
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Yeah. Yeah, our good friend are more of oh behave
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it's helped them set that whole program up. So it's
it's a wonderful, wonderful way to go. Well, hold on tight,
we're going to go to commercial break. We're gonna come
right back with so you So who have to talk
a little bit more about traveling and traveling with dogs
and Cci And I want to talk to you a
little bit about your blog too, because I want to
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We're here today with Saya Sue Heck talking to us
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Actually too, more about we're nearing two hundred thousands.
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We get about ten thousand views in a month, sometimes more,
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to be a successful blogger, Well, I think with any
kind of writing, you know, write about something that you love,
to write about, something that you're passionate about, and then
(23:35):
you know, and then you're going to want to keep
on doing it. What I understand is that a lot
of bloggers start and they're just you know, trying to
make some money, or they're you know, think it would
be fun or whatever. But within a couple of months
or maybe a couple of weeks that they're done.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah, the exactly, they lose their momentum. They don't realize
how much work it is. And you know, if you
I'm sure if you miss a day or miss a
week without blogging, people will find another blog site to
look at.
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Well, I actually found this I have been. I was
ill last year and so there was a kind of
a time period where I was not blogging every day
like I normally do, sometimes twice a day. So there
was a time period where I was maybe blogging once
a week, and I was able to maintain my momentum
(24:28):
because I had set things up ahead of time, and
I really you know, there was a decrease, don't get
me wrong, you know, to the traffic, but I had
set things up to where I had linked I get
links from other bloggers so people can go, let's say,
(24:48):
to dog jaunt dot com and she writes about traveling
with her small pet. She's a small dog, so you
know they might go there, and that Mary Alice has
a link to my blog and link to my blog
from there, as well as a whole slew of other blogs,
(25:10):
and so that traffic just keeps on common. Plus the
fact that at the beginning I really made a concerted
effort to promote my blog in the mainstream media as
well as online media. So there's all that out there,
and so you know, if you know how to do promotion,
(25:34):
with which I do, then you know it was pretty
easy for me to get my blog promoted. Could I
have done more? Could I do more?
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (25:45):
You can always do more, because because now I see
people who started more recently, and you know, they get
more traffic than I do. But you know, what is
success to you? You kind of have to keep that
at the forefront too, you know, is you know I
don't believe in just getting traffic for the sake of traffic.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
You want people to get something out of it, walk
away with something they'll help them or help their pets.
And if you're promoting a product or service, then yeah,
get them to take a look at that too while
you're there, exactly.
Speaker 10 (26:14):
And and I've always tried to have something a picture,
a video. I try to make people laugh or I
try to inform, you know, educate people about whatever it
is that I'm writing about. And that's where I've come
from from the beginning. So I you know, I write
in that vein. I sometimes I get long winded and
(26:35):
rant and rave and get on my soaf fut about
an issue like breed specific legislation. But you know, I
try to make it a fun experience for people so
that they can come and they can just listen to
a music video or you know, watch dog surfing or
(26:56):
you know, something that'll make them laugh and brighten their day.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
That's a good idea. Now, I know we talked a
lot about travel and having a lot of travel connections
on the website, on the blog, but what else can
people find there if they went to take a look
at it and of course, give us, give us the
website where they can take a look at it.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
Yeah, my website is Celia Sue dot WordPress dot com
and that's the main site. And so yeah, I mean,
I just wrote somebody asked me to write not really
a product review, but just to write about feeding your
dog raw food because I've been experimenting with that. So
(27:36):
I also tend to write about eco friendly things, green
friendly and you know, healthy ways to help your pet.
So I've written about homemade dog biscuits and you know,
trees and how to make them and recipes too. You know,
(27:57):
don't ever use tea tree oil. That is like one
one of the most popular blog posts I've ever written.
People are very much into alternative treatments for their pets
these days, anything from you know, massage to romotherapy, and
you know, they appreciate the tips I had at the
(28:19):
I think it was during the time that Cecy was
not well. She had developed a rash and she also
had developed an ear infection, and I was considering giving
her putting tea tree oil in her ears. And thankfully,
before I did it, I talked to a friend of
(28:40):
mine and she said, no, no, no, no, no, don't
ever do this, And she told me about putting too
much tea tree oil on her dog and it had
a very bad reaction. And so I did some research
and I wrote a blog post about it, and every
single day people come to them blog post and read
(29:01):
about teacher oil. So it's it's quite interesting that, you know,
people just want to know, you know I talk. I
say that it's also about traveling through life with the dog.
A few weeks ago, my dog got skunk and I
wrote about that experience.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Did you use the old tomato juice wash?
Speaker 10 (29:25):
We did not do tuna juice. I actually found that
if you use it's a combination of hydrogen peroxide, which
sounds really terrible, but there's a whole formula that I
found that really really worked. But you know, I just
talked about the whole experience and what we went through
(29:45):
and what we did to combat the skunk. So I
was laughing when you were talking about washing your pet
because of just having had that experience a few weeks ago.
But you know, I mean dog like to get into
stinky things.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Besides that too, Yeah, they find anything stinky on the ground,
they're going to rub on it and rub in it For.
Speaker 10 (30:08):
Sure and eat or eat it, so, you know, so
I write, I you know, I write about all the
different experiences. You know, we used to go to the
dog park a lot. We don't do that anymore, but
I'll write about, you know, my dog's experiences with the
neighbor dog. You know, just kind of everyday experiences that
(30:32):
you know, probably everybody else has with their dog. But
I just you know, write about it. And especially because
I think that it's relatable to other people. They can understand,
you know, yeah, my dog does that too, Or what
should I do if my dog gets skunk? Well they
can come to my eyeblog and find.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Out that's right, that's right. Everyday common things you often
learn from your own experiences, but now you can share
them with everybody else.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
Well, I found out what to do because somebody else
had written about it, So you know, I think it's
just good to get information and first pan practical information
from people who've been there and done that. So you know,
that's what I try to provide for people. You know,
maybe they didn't come across somebody else's, but they'll come
(31:22):
across mind and they'll say, gee, whiz, what do I
do help? You know, and I get, you know, some
people who want to know, you know, let's say they're
traveling to San Diego and maybe they they're afraid that
their dog won't have a swim and what if they
get caught up in the waves, you know, So I
(31:45):
try to provide you know, tips, travel tips as well
as that everyday.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Stuff that's good, that's fantastic. Well, everybody can check it out.
The blog is Have Dog Blog, Will Travel it so
Asiya Sue Heck and CC's all over that website as well.
And you go to the website which is Celia Sue
dot WordPress dot com. A C E l I A
s U E dot WordPress dot com. So say, Sue,
(32:11):
I want to thank you. It's always a pleasure talking
to you. It's a pleasure to read your site. Give
CC some big hugs from us, and we thank you
for being on Animal Rights on pet Life Radio.
Speaker 10 (32:21):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
All Right, well we're coming to the end of our
show today, so I want to thank everybody for listening
to Animal Rights on Pet Life Radio. Also a big
thank you again for Slia Sue Heck coming on board.
Check out her blog, Have Dog Blog, Will Travel and
you won't be disappointed. Check it out daily because there's
always one full stuff on there. So thanks to say
Sue Heck for being on the show today. Thank you
(32:43):
to our sponsors and producers for putting on another fabulous show.
Hope everybody enjoyed it. To find out more about me,
Timlink and our other guests that've interviewed on Animal Rights Show,
you can go to the website it's petlife radio dot com,
click on the Animal Rights icon and get a little
bit more informed, and also check out all the other
wonderful host and mother shows that we have. There's a
(33:04):
whole cavalcade of wonderful programs on pet Life Radio and
you check it out at petlferadio dot com. So if
you have any questions for me, any comments or ideas
for a show, people you'd like to have interviewed on
the show, please email me. You can email me at
Tim at petlifradio dot com. It's Tim at petlife radio
dot com, and I'll do my very best to answer
your questions, entertain your comments, and see if we can
(33:26):
get the people you want to hear the most on
the show. So until next time, write a great story
about the animals in your life, Share it on a blog,
an article, or a book, and who knows, you may
be the next guest on animal rights on pet Life Radio.
Have a great day.
Speaker 8 (33:41):
Let's talk pets every week on demand only on petlife
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Speaker 2 (34:01):
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