Do they need walking? Do they need good feed? How about conversation, games, outings to dog parks and the Great Outdoors?

What To Do to Make Your Dog Happy?

The best answer is easy to learn from those who cherish their fur babies.

It is to realize that dogs get happy when you come home because they're naturally inclined to be sociable. They're uniquely designed to be part of a pack. That's just like family!

What do excited, energetic, sporty dogs need to be happy? They need YOU.

And how can you tell if your dog is happy? Isn't it by watching it spin around, prance and bark playfully at your presence, or perhaps cuddle up and snuggle so close and insistently that it feels like doggo wants to rub itself right off on you?

If you are a rescue mama or daddy, you know in fact that it is our dog (or dogs!) that rescue us from loneliness, sadness, meaninglessness, a humor-less and lackluster life. They provide the emotional support that we so often fail to receive from humans.

They're our best friends for a reason. And at this site, you will hear ours and even yours, if you join our community, speak their minds and showcase their experiences, because to know a dog is to know ourselves.

Walking Through Life With a Sporty Dog and Loving Being Happy

An ancient and well-founded statement declared, "Whoever breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches people to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven." What was the smallest commandments referred to here? According to the Hebrews, it's the one written in Deuteronomy 22:6-7, described there as "the least of all the commandments of the law of Moses." And what did that law have to do with?

ANIMALS!!

This is no small reason why an ancient proverb by the same people said, "A righteous man cares about his animal's health." When you think of animal cruelty, it's not difficult to see how the second half of that proverb speaks truthfully as well by asserting, "But even the merciful acts of the wicked are cruel."

Those who are kind to their animals and train, treat, tactfully protect and enjoy their pets, especially outdoors where they can roam, explore and discover a world worth sharing together, are closer to behaving like a citizen of heaven than the rest. And these are the people we built Sporty Dog Walker and Happy Doggy, Happy Me for.

Are you one of them?

Are you the type who cannot stand to watch a dog suffer unnecessarily? Do you stop to ask everything you can about a dog you meet walking with its master? Do you take vacations and bring your dog with you? Does your dog have a place on your bed every night, else nighttime would be incomplete for you? Do you believe a dog -- especially the sporty kind -- must be taken outdoors as much as possible to work off its wiggles and enjoy its surroundings before returning home for a meal off of your own plate?

Then, you know dogs need to be happy and you may wish to learn how to make them happier still. If this is you, then stick around. Welcome to our site! Sniff around all you want and leave your mark. We don't mind. We just want you to enjoy all the advice we have to offer and all the happiness to be gained by sharing your rescue mama and rescue daddy experiences with other folks here like you.

Browse around or drop by our Facebook page and tell us about your pooch. We have a ton of people who'd love to meet you there to share their own tales of memories, mischief and mastery of their happy dogs, that they share or have shared this walk of life with and across the years.