Choosing the Right Dog For You

Buying or adopting a dog is a crucial decision which could affect the lives of you and your family for many years. Over many years, Richard Fifer, having lived with and trained all kinds of dog breeds, from small dog breeds and toy dogs (like his famous schnauzers), through living with larger dog breeds such as a golden retriever, today he understand the importance of choosing the right dog.

When you are choosing a breed of dog, you need to know some very important elements about the dog and its specific traits. These include from the height and weight to important training and obedience skills. After all, keep in mind that you will be living and working with your pet for about a decade, and depending on your lifestyle and your place of home, you may be much better matched to one dog breed over another.

Becoming a great dog owner requires most of the following:

  • A lifelong approach to learning from professionals, through growing old with your pet and trial and error.
  • Exercising your dog.
  • Commitment to safeguarding your dog’s health.
  • Patience
  • Time
Schnauzer dogs

Schnauzer dogs

Flag of the Republic of Panama

The Fifer-Carles family, proud of its Panamanian heritage would like to share with its blog fans a few historic facts on one of its main national symbols:

Panamanian Flag

The Panamanian flag is a rectangle divided into four quarters: the first near the mast top, white with a blue five-pointed star, the second top of the already described below, in red, the first pole near the bottom blue, and the second following it, white with a red star with 5 points.

Panama Flag

Panama Flag

 

The Idea

The Panamanian flag was designed by Manuel Amador Guerrero and was made by Maria De La Ossa de Amador.

Don Manuel E. Amador G. took in consideration for the creation of the flag, the two colors (blue and red) represented by the country’s political parties (the Liberal and Conservative parties). The white symbolizes the peace among both parties. The stars indicated righteousness, power and authority, characteristics of development.

Legal adoption of the Flag

The Constituent Assembly by Act 64 of 1904 provisionally adopted the flag. And final adoption occurred through Act 4 of 1925 created the National Assembly and ratified by Law adoption on March 28, 1941.

History of the flag

Before he designed the Panamanian flag as it is today, Philippe Bunau Varilla, who participated in the plans to achieve the separation of Panama from Colombia created an unoriginal idea for the first flag, one devised on the American model. A pendulum was sewn on it by the wife of Bunau Varilla, red and yellow stripes were placed horizontally instead of white and red like the U.S. flag.  At the top was a rectangular blue in the center with two yellow suns united by a strip of the same color, which, according to its author, symbolized the two continents.

The initial design for the flag was discarded because it seemed to them inappropriate that a foreigner would determine such important symbol for the country. The couple decided to consult Manuel Amador the son of the president, who was recognized as an artist for his drawing skills. With red and blue pens, he outlined the features of the final version of the Panamanian flag still used today.