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August 6, 2012

The German version of “Ain’t Misbehavin’ ” is here

August 5, 2012

Dogs: Attention and Approval is the key to their evolutionary success as a species

I spend a tremendous amount of time thinking about how to make people truly understand why teaching dogs to behave according to our expectations cannot be achieved by coercion…

August 2, 2012

Is my dog fat or just “muscular”?

Here is an interesting article by Dr. Sophia Yin about body condition and food motivation. Unfortunately many dogs are quite overweight and in my experience dog guardians tend to underestimate…

August 2, 2012

Capturing

Capturing is a technical term. It means taking a behavior a dog offers naturally, by accident or by habit and teaching the dog to perform that behavior on cue. One…

August 1, 2012

What to do on a rainy day?

Boredom is the mother of nuisance behaviors. We have established that in previous posts and even made a poster about that! Today the weather was miserable. So, I decided to…

July 30, 2012

Natural Flea and Tick control

My friend Tazz Latifi of Petropolis NYC http://www.petropolisnyc.com/ wrote a highly informative blog post on flea and tick prevention: the natural way. I realize that some areas near the New…