by Tena Parker | Jan 30, 2013 | Basic Training Tips, Foster Dogs, photo blog
If You Want Something, DO Something “Wow, why won’t my dog walk like that!” said the man who stopped me while walking Rio down a busy sidewalk earlier this year. I know I’ve written it time and time again, but my response was,...
by Tena Parker | Jan 28, 2013 | Basic Training Tips, Foster Dogs, Video blog
101 Things To Do With A Box Looking for a fun winter-time activity to burn some mental and physical energy with out freezing your toes off outside or making Fido get too amped up on the house? Have you ever thought about playing with a box? 101 things to do with a...
by Tena Parker | Jan 24, 2013 | Foster Dogs, Training, Video blog
How To Teach “Go To Mat” Mat-work is one of my favorite behaviors to teach and is a behavior that has a ridiculous number of uses. Do you have a dog who has rude door manners with visitors? You can fix it with mat-work. Do you have a dog who begs...
by Tena Parker | Jan 22, 2013 | Basic Training Tips, Foster Dogs
Training Sequence Makes a Difference I honestly have never given too much thought to the order in which I train behaviors. I know what behaviors I value, what behaviors are easy to train, what behaviors I’d like as default behaviors, and what behaviors...
by Tena Parker | Jan 15, 2013 | Blog The Change, Foster Dogs
Wow, it’s been way too long since I’ve participated in Blog The Change For Animals event! Blog the change for animals is a fantastic event where animal bloggers each pick a topic, theme, rescue, event, story, etc to promote and bring to the public eye....
by Tena Parker | Jan 14, 2013 | Body language, Foster Dogs
Positive Play Between Dogs Although Linus is definitely a scaredy boy, he is a ridiculously social dog with those of his own kind. There is nothing more than he wants in life than to be with other dogs and play. Although Shayne and Rio are friendly, they are a bit...
