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Posted in Behavior, calming signals, Dog greeting, Greeting behavior, Snarky dog, Uncategorized on Jul 29th, 2010
Tweet Sadie is sometimes snarky. So am I. Aren’t you? Aren’t we all? (I know. Snarky is not a real word. But, it should be. It just so onomatopoetic.) Have you ever met someone who just rubbed you the wrong way right from the start? At first meeting they […]
Posted in Behavior, Greeting behavior, Sadie's Rules, Uncategorized on Jul 12th, 2010
Tweet 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, […]
Posted in Alpha dog, Behavior, Calm-submissive, Dominance, Dumbinance, Ian Dunbar, Pat Miller, Shock collar, Trish King, Uncategorized on Nov 24th, 2009
Tweet Dominance theory, or dumbinance theory as I prefer to call it, reared its howling head again, this time as a prescription for child rearing—“Becoming the Alpha Dog in Your Own Home.” (As of today, the most popular article in the NYT.) Meet Cesar Millan, the new no-nonsense nanny. Here. In the New York Times. […]
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