Tweet “Are you r-e-a-dy?” 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 […]
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Tweet You will never have a ‘normal’ dog no matter how much counter-conditioning and desensitization you do. No matter how many hours of training you invest. At least that’s how I condensed Dr. Nicholas Dodman’s lecture on fearfulness and fear aggression. “You can rehabilitate, but there is no cure. And, there is a tendency to relapse.” […]
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Tweet (Previously titled: “Spare the Shock Collar, Spoil the Dog?”) Three events over as many days added up to what some refer to as a ‘woo-woo’ experience. Not unusual for Boulder, ‘Woo-woo World Central.’ So, when it happens to me, I take notice. Hmm. Maybe I need to write about shock collars. First, two days […]
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