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		<title>&#8216;Ball Bonking&#8217; and Clicker Breakthrough?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we left Sadie in the previous post, she was polishing off her yummy frozen treat-in-a-sock-in-a-box and I was pondering more brain-wearying games for her to play while she&#8217;s recovering from her injury. Sadie&#8217;s wild about tennis balls. How could we play with tennis balls that didn&#8217;t require her running after them? My eyes landed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun and Games When Your Dog Is Hurt</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Are you r-e-a-dy?&#8221; I sing to Sadie. She lowers her haunches into an anticipatory, quivering sit. I fling her yellow tennis ball into the shallow lake. Charging full tilt, Sadie splashes after it. She is focused, confident, and ecstatic. My heart balloons with delight. Then Sadie stops dead in the chest high water. The yellow ball [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magic &#8220;Touch&#8221; for Fearful Dogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 01:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Flick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Touch.&#8221; I thought our trainer had gone a cue too far. Why on earth would I want Sadie to touch her nose, sweet as it is, to the palm of my hand? On Cue? This is nuts, I thought. Make work. I wanted Sadie to sit, and down, and come, and leave it, and settle. [...]]]></description>
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