Posted in BlogPaws, Debbie Jacobs, Dog Lover's Digest, Dogtime.com, Edie Jarolim, Fearful dogs, Fearfuldog's Blog, Karen Pryor, Kevin Meyers, Pamela Douglas Webster, Pettie Awards, Something Wagging This Way, Will My Dog Hate Me on Jun 11th, 2011
Tweet It’s that time of year again! What time of year is it you ask? Now is the time to nominate your favorite blogs for a Pettie Award! Let’s get the preliminaries out of the way before I tell you about the four blogs I’m nominating and how you can too, if you choose. What […]
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Posted in Barking, Be the Change, Behavior, Clicker, Dog greeting, Dog Star Daily, Fearful dogs, Ian Dunbar, Karen Pryor, Never shock a puppy, Positive punishment, Positive reinforcement, Positive training, Punishment, Shock collar on Sep 22nd, 2010
Tweet News Flash! Dogs bark! Okay, that might not be news to you, but it was to Jenny, a friend and first-time doggie mom. She was frantic because Emma, her puppy, barked at people walking by the house on the sidewalk, at squirrels, and no surprise, when Jenny left her alone in her crate. All […]
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Tweet “You’re not going to like this,” Nana said. It was 1991 and Morgaine, my chocolate Standard Poodle, was six months old. Nana had been making weekly puppy training trips to our house from the day after I brought Morgaine home at ten weeks of age the previous November. I was bound and determined to […]
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