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Blog Roll Updates!
Alright, I was looking at my blog roll and realized that ... wow, I haven't updated that since I started blogging. Now that I've discovered and been introduced some amazing blogs I figured it was time to update it... and what better way to draw attention to the...
"Sometimes Even Friendly Dogs Turn Bad"…Really? PT. 2
Just in case some of you missed it yesterday, we are discussing a commercial that has really come to bother me in the recent months. I always had issues with it but now I get irritated to the point that I give the lawyer in the commercial some colorful back-talk (ie:...
"Sometimes even friendly dogs turn bad"…. Really?
So, I have seen this commercial many, many times over the last... I don't know, 3 years, and it has continued to bother me and really just rub me the wrong way. The implication in this commercial is extremely frustrating and somewhat fear-mongering. I think my...
Beautiful Day
I feel like I've posted this over and over again... dogs playing at the pond... Shayne jumping off the rocks, Rio swimming with toys, Bandit coated in mud. You'll have to tolerate one more post like this (at least). On Friday we took the dogs to the pond and it was...
My Seven Links
Alright... first of all, a sarcastic thanks to Kristine over at Rescued Insanity for nominating me for the My 7 Links challenge (I'm calling it a challenge) that was started by Tripbase Blog. The idea was to connect a very wide range of niche blogs through posting a...
Why it's hard living with a.. Shih Tzu?!
Living with Bandit, my mom's Shih Tzu is generally easy (minus his fence fighting) but he is obsessive about playing in mud. He gets a mud bath and then must get a normal bath because the stench doesn't brush out LOL. When we go to the pond (if I bring him along...
OMG.. ANOTHER DOG.. LOOK LOOK!!!!
First of all, let me apologize.. my reactivity series has been absolutely all over the place! Out of order, poorly planned... just a bit of a mess. I'm putting them all in the "reactivity" category so if you want to find them all and read them in a manner that makes...
Cool, Calm and Collected
Cool, Calm and Collected "Why doesn't he completely lose it when you are working him? I don't understand. How does he know the difference, I only gave you the leash!" I heard this from a client quite a while back and the answer is so simple but so difficult at the...
Take a break for It's Yer Choice
We'll get back to the reactivity posts quite possibly tomorrow... it was a very busy weekend with a Nicole Wilde seminar and then a full-day's worth of family time with extended family. It's only 10:30pm and I'm falling asleep. So, instead of writing a post, I...
Tools for Reactivity
Again, my apologies for being totally out of order, but I just realized it may have been helpful to talk about the tools I suggest for working through reactivity. I do think there are some training tools out there that are actually quite counterproductive when...