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Well... there is potential for true friendship and the potential for tragedy.  How things play out largely depends on the adults supervising.  It is the adult's job to make sure everybody remains safe and that means reading the dogs very carefully, teaching the...

"Is he a biter?"  "Is she going to bite me?" "Does she bite?"--these are all phrases I heard while I was living in NY walking my dogs around town.  What is interesting to me is that these phrases seem to indicate that some dogs do not bite and will not bite.  Dogs...

I realize that informational posts have been... scarce...this week.  Well, unfortunately that isn't going to change today (though it may be entertaining).  I had the absolute craziest evening at training classes and I am completely wiped out. I left my house around...

When I fall asleep each night, I dream about having my dogs sufficiently worked for them to nap nicely during the day with me.  I don't ask for a lot but I really do like to have some down time when my dogs aren't going nuts and throwing toys at me.  So these are the...

I love that my dogs try things...that they experiment and offer.  Recently a friend offered a clicker class to some folks who have never tried Clicker Training (in its proper form, some had used the clicker before) and I decided to go for some fun and a nice casual...

Oi.   Dex has been with me for some 6 or 7 weeks now and he has not once shown any interest in the trash (which is behind a cabinet door).  There have been many raw bones in the trash--things I don't trust Shayne or Rio to safely consume, and not once has Dex shown...

A few years back, my dear friend Casey Lomonaco  (of Dogster's Behavior and Training blog) sent me a prize package that included this small plastic tube-like item.  Little did I know that this item would become a favorite training tool in my house (and one I was so...

Sorry for the lack of content the last two days... I do have a post written but I just have to share this... experience with you.   I figure I write posts with either serious information or serious stories and I want to give you all a chance to laugh at my expense. As...

Text-free Thursday?  Cinco-de-May siesta? After a bit of a crazy evening with classes and three dogs who haven't had their typical amount of exercise for four weeks due to near 20 consecutive days of rain, I am not feeling the whole writing a blog thing.  I'm tried,...

Well, I had this great post written about how you should go about greeting dogs you are unfamiliar with ...but my good friend Casey Lomonaco KPA wrote a lovely post about that topic today.  So, go check out her Behavior and Training blog about how to greet an...