For the love of dogs and their people
Posted in Dogs Themselves, Review on Dec 29th, 2010
Tweet The week before last I got lucky. I stumbled upon a tweet by Kathy Sdao (@ksdao) with a link to a Canadian radio program called “Ideas.” For three successive Mondays they broadcasted a series of one-hour episodes titled Dogs Themselves. I just finished listening to the final installment. It aired last night, December 27, […]
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 […]
Posted in Clicker, Fearful dogs, Karen Pryor, Nana Will, Never shock a puppu on Sep 8th, 2010
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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