Life Lessons Learned From Training Dogs
When I first started to learn about training, it was in the world of competitive dog obedience. In that specialized niche, dog training was...
Fostering Dogs: What You Should Know
It’s a rare dog lover who hasn’t at least considered fostering a dog. Woebegone canine faces in shelter and rescue appeals tug at the...
Preventing Food-Toy “Fails”
There is an ever-widening variety of food-filled puzzles, food-dispensing toys, and “slow feeding” dishes for dogs on the market. Many trainers (and this publication)...
5 Indoor Dog Games for When You Can’t Go Out
Here are some of our favorite brain activities to help you and your dog survive the coronavirus shutdown.
Wildlife Protection Dogs
We don’t usually think of dogs as the best friends of elephants, whales, hedgehogs, Chinese Moon Bears, bandicoots, or white-footed voles, but their incredible...
Howling in the Uncanny Valley
There’s nothing modern about human beings anthropomorphising animals in stories; some of our earliest spiritual practice is called “animism,” and it’s common for traditional...
Porn-Sniffing K9’s? Growing Demand for Electronic-Storage Detection Dogs
Humans have trained dogs to use their amazing noses to identify all kinds of things – explosives, illegal drugs, bedbugs, cancer, even ancient burial...
What You Should Do (and Not Do) If You Find a Lost Dog
If you are a dog lover and you spend any amount of time on Facebook or any of those community website/discussion groups such as...
Socially Conscious Sheltering
One might imagine that the world of animal sheltering would be filled with people who care about animals and want to save lives –...
Do The Work To Keep Your Dog Comfortable During New Experiences
In November, I went to a seminar about dog behavior and training and, for the first time in my life, brought a dog so...
Take a Hike! (With Your Dog)
I love hiking with my dogs, and one of my favorite things about living in the Pacific Northwest is the abundance of dog friendly...
Dog Kisses: Is Your Dog Really Kissing You?
You either love it or hate it: the wet, warm sensation of a dog licking your face. Many of us seek out this kind...
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In the Aftermath of a Dog Attack
Whenever there is a high-profile dog attack, it seems everyone with a dog weighs in with their opinions about the dog, the dog’s origin, the owners, the specific situation, and the resolution of the event. We were just presented with an opportunity to use an upsetting high-profile incident as an educational tool. Someone sent us a link to a March 17 Instagram post by Sean Lowe, an American TV reality show personality. In the post, Lowe sat with his wife by his side and described two incidents involving their dog Moose, a 7-year-old Boxer the family adopted three months prior.