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After a very serious and word-heavy week last week (and just being quite drained right now) I'm starting this week off with a crazy brief but relevant blurb. This past weekend I was outside doing lawn work and tending my garden.  I was working in the back yard where...

Some final thoughts on Dog Bite Prevention Week.... Be Your Dog's Advocate You are your dog's best advocate.  If you will not stick up for them, who else will?  If you feel your dog is uncomfortable stand up for him/her and tell people, "Thanks for asking, but he's...

Aside from some Nordic and Spitz breeds, most dogs are not capable of verbally saying NO (okay so they don't really say "no" but they can Arooo in a way that sounds like it)!  They use their own physical language and rely on us to understand it--or at the very least...

Yesterday I wrote about the rules that we has humans (and especially children) need to follow when interacting with dogs to keep things as safe as possible.  One of the rules is to Ask first, Ask twice; the second part of that is to make sure you ask the dog if he/she...

Well... there is potential for true friendship and the potential for tragedy.  How things play out largely depends on the adults supervising.  It is the adult's job to make sure everybody remains safe and that means reading the dogs very carefully, teaching the...

"Is he a biter?"  "Is she going to bite me?" "Does she bite?"--these are all phrases I heard while I was living in NY walking my dogs around town.  What is interesting to me is that these phrases seem to indicate that some dogs do not bite and will not bite.  Dogs...

I realize that informational posts have been... scarce...this week.  Well, unfortunately that isn't going to change today (though it may be entertaining).  I had the absolute craziest evening at training classes and I am completely wiped out. I left my house around...

When I fall asleep each night, I dream about having my dogs sufficiently worked for them to nap nicely during the day with me.  I don't ask for a lot but I really do like to have some down time when my dogs aren't going nuts and throwing toys at me.  So these are the...

I love that my dogs try things...that they experiment and offer.  Recently a friend offered a clicker class to some folks who have never tried Clicker Training (in its proper form, some had used the clicker before) and I decided to go for some fun and a nice casual...

Oi.   Dex has been with me for some 6 or 7 weeks now and he has not once shown any interest in the trash (which is behind a cabinet door).  There have been many raw bones in the trash--things I don't trust Shayne or Rio to safely consume, and not once has Dex shown...