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Posted in And another thing, Be the Change, Behavior, BlogPaws 2010, BlogPaws West, Up For Pups on Sep 19th, 2010
Tweet It’s “Adopt a Less Adoptable Pet Week” from today through next Sunday, September 25! Ah, what’s “Adopt a Less Adoptable Pet Week”? I’m glad you asked! Last week at BlogPaws bloggers were challenged to “Be the Change for Pets” by posting pictures of less adoptable pets from today through next Sunday, September 25. On […]
Posted in #FollowFriday Fab Four, Be the Change, BlogPaws, BlogPaws 2010, BlogPaws West, Happy Tails Books, Help Joey, Kyla Dufy, Up For Pups on Sep 17th, 2010
Tweet This week’s Fab 4 is, well, the square root of 4 which is 2! I want to spotlight two inventive dog advocates that are promoting entirely different things, have totally different styles, and who are equally passionate in their mission to help dogs. I met both of them at BlogPaws last weekend, or more […]
Posted in Be the Change, Behavior, Behavior marker, Clicker, Greeting behavior, Kathy Sdao, Never shock a puppy, Positive reinforcement, Positive training, Shock collar, Stress on Sep 15th, 2010
Tweet (Originally posted June 18, 2009, It’s Shocking has been revised and updated.) The young man at the dog park was using a shock collar to train his dog. To be fair, the discomfort to the dog was below the screaming-in-pain threshold. In fact, I didn’t, or couldn’t, hear the dog whimper. And, the man […]
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