by Tena Parker | Apr 6, 2011 | Blogs, Uncategorized
“Ruby, you need to look at that dog! Look at how good she is being! Why can’t you be like her! You should take a lesson!” So says a lady at Petsmart yesterday. She had a young adult Border Collie who was pulling her, lunging forward, circling...
by Tena Parker | Mar 14, 2011 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Apparently everyone and their mother has an aggressive dog. No, I mean it, given how often people say “dealing with an aggressive….” or “my dog is aggressive to me” or worse yet, “help my puppy is aggressive!!!” I have no...
by Tena Parker | Mar 8, 2011 | Blogs, Uncategorized
“He knows what I want but he just refuses to do it!” Okay, well, what exactly is going on? “When we are out for a walk and he does his business, I ask him to sit and he just completely refuses. All I want is for him to sit while I pick up but he is...
by Tena Parker | Mar 7, 2011 | Blogs, Uncategorized
When we think about a system being flooded with adrenaline we generally think of super strength, hyper vigilance, jittery, energetic and possibly a crash as the adrenaline works its way out of the body. What I failed to think about what the effect adrenaline had on...
by Tena Parker | Jan 29, 2011 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Yesterday I was playing outside in the snow with the dogs. There was about 2 inches of fresh powder on top about 3 or 4 inches of semi-packed down snow. After “losing” two tennis balls in the snow, I busted out the big 10″ Tug-n-Toss Jolly-Ball. ...
