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		<title>Thank You for Ignoring My Dog</title>
		<link>http://www.boulderdog.net/2010/07/12/thank-you-for-ignoring-my-dog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Flick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[     In Sadie’s ideal world strangers don’t look at her much less stare at her. They don’t reach out to pet her. Definitely they don’t jostle her ears. They all go about their business as if Sadie wasn’t there, except, of course, they don’t bump into her or step on her paws. Sadie, naturally, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OMG! There&#8217;s a Troll Under that Bridge!</title>
		<link>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/12/30/omg-theres-a-troll-under-that-bridge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Flick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The doggie gods smiled on Sadie and me. Celestial kongs aligned. A solution to a challenge that has vexed us for months—walking across a bridge under which Sadie was convinced there lurked a dog-devouring troll&#8211;seemingly magically appeared.  See the guy on the bridge? He&#8217;s not a troll. That&#8217;s Ira, Sadie&#8217;s dad, and she&#8217;s worried that he surely has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking My &#8216;Lunch with Turid Rugaas&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/12/18/rethinking-my-lunch-with-turid-rugaas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/12/18/rethinking-my-lunch-with-turid-rugaas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Flick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dog Star Daily]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gigi Moss]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My recent post, Lunch with Turid Rugaas: Am I Driving My Dog Crazy? initially stirred a wave of reactions from readers as you can see in the comments section of the post. As naturally happens, though, after a few days of spirited back-and-forth the dialogue ebbed and I moved on to other topics. Then, Dr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunch with Turid Rugaas: Am I Driving My Dog Crazy?</title>
		<link>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/11/05/lunch-with-turid-rugaas-am-i-driving-my-dog-crazy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/11/05/lunch-with-turid-rugaas-am-i-driving-my-dog-crazy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Flick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Puppy kindergarten]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[calming signals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tears, no, make that sobs, shattered my usual I-am-a-rational-person persona. The quesadilla I was eating momentarily stuck in my throat, caught in the crosscurrents of my trying to swallow against erupting emotion that seemed to come out of nowhere. It all began very innocently. Turid Rugaas and I were seated alone at adjacent tables in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And another thing&#8230; Please Don&#8217;t Blago My Dog!</title>
		<link>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/09/27/and-another-thing-please-dont-blagojevitch-my-dog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/09/27/and-another-thing-please-dont-blagojevitch-my-dog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Flick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(updated below) The stranger kindly consents to give Sadie a little piece of salmon jerky. I place the goodie in his hand expecting him immediately to offer it to her. But, no! As soon as the fish hits his palm it dawns on him that he&#8217;s now in possession of something valuable; he has something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the Stress Express!</title>
		<link>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/07/13/our-poor-stressed-out-dogs-do-something/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/07/13/our-poor-stressed-out-dogs-do-something/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Flick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fearful dogs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jean Donaldson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clarissa von Reinhardt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Martina Scholz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fix in your mind a stress-free, relaxed, easy going dog. Ms.or Mr. Go-with-the-Flow. Perhaps this is your dog. Or, maybe not. If you are, like I am, parenting a not-so-stress-free pup, call to mind a chilled-out doggie friend. Forrest, the adopted St. Bernard who owns Mary Lee who owns PC&#8217;s Pantry comes to my mind. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Makes Your Dog Really Happy?</title>
		<link>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/06/29/what-makes-your-dog-really-happy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/06/29/what-makes-your-dog-really-happy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Flick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clicker]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nicholas Dodman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You will never have a &#8216;normal&#8217; dog no matter how much counter-conditioning and desensitization you do. No matter how many hours of training you invest. At least that&#8217;s how I condensed Dr. Nicholas Dodman&#8217;s lecture on fearfulness and fear aggression. &#8220;You can rehabilitate, but there is no cure. And, there is a tendency to relapse.&#8221; Thanks. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And another thing&#8230; I Do Not Want My Dog To Be &#8216;Calm-Submissive&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/06/14/and-another-thing-i-do-not-want-my-dog-to-be-calm-submissive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/06/14/and-another-thing-i-do-not-want-my-dog-to-be-calm-submissive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Flick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today begins a new series of blog entries entitled &#8216;And another thing’—brief &#8216;shout outs&#8217; shorter than my typical blog post and too long for a tweet. Some things grind away at my thoughts like a dog that refuses to give up gnawing a bare bone. Others things make me feel so happy, I swear could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Is Not the Dog I Want!</title>
		<link>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/05/31/this-is-not-the-dog-i-want/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/05/31/this-is-not-the-dog-i-want/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 20:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Flick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But, she was the dog I absolutely HAD to have. I told Fran and Dorothy, the breeders (I detest the sound of that word), that I did not want a shy dog. My first dog, Sarah, was tremulous and suspicious. One day she was a happy puppy, the next, afraid of everything and everyone. To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magic &#8220;Touch&#8221; for Fearful Dogs</title>
		<link>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/05/06/magic-touch-for-fearful-dogs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/05/06/magic-touch-for-fearful-dogs/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<title>Peanut Butter Manicure</title>
		<link>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/04/25/peanut-butter-manicure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/04/25/peanut-butter-manicure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Flick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nail trimming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dog grooming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I dread, deeply, clipping Sadie&#8217;s toe nails. I go all queasy just thinking about it.  Sadie is shy and extremely sensitive. I wasn&#8217;t about to be the meanie coming at her with what I feared would look like hedge shears to her. It didn&#8217;t happen often, but when I did cut too close to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Greet A Strange Dog?</title>
		<link>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/04/17/how-do-you-greet-a-strange-dog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boulderdog.net/2009/04/17/how-do-you-greet-a-strange-dog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Flick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Behavior]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jean Donaldson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["How Do You Greet a Strange Dog?" Answer, "You don't!"  I laughed. I was sitting in the front row of a week-end long presentation by dog trainer, behaviorist , and author extraordinare, Jean Donaldson, at the Humane Society of Boulder  Valley last fall (2008). Jean presented a litany of offenses that humans, with the best of intentions, commit against unsuspecting canines. I cringed as she went down her list.]]></description>
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