Canine Compulsive Disorder: Border Collies Chasing Lights

Researchers from the Animal Behavior Clinic at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University are hunting for causes and solutions to canine compulsive disorders. The current

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On the Town with GoPetFriendly.com

We first met our previously online-only friends from GoPetFriendly.com (pet travel, made easy) on a hike last fall, when they visited Colorado before BlogPaws West. Thanks to an

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Lilly Herding Lesson #2, What Didn’t Go Well

Yesterday, I reported on What Went Well in Lilly’s second herding lesson. Here is a recap of what didn’t go so well.\

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Lilly Herding Lesson #2, What Went Well

Last Thursday, Lilly and I hauled ourselves out to Valdemar Farm for our second official herding lesson. This I know … I’m probably the worst goatherd on the

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Wordless Wednesday: Pineapple Heist Foiled

If you thought last week’s cucumber theft was funny, check this out. We had deliberately placed two fresh/whole pineapples in front of the other fruit on the counter

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Dogs on Drugs: Fading Xanax

On the advice of our behaviorist from Colorado State’s veterinary school, Lilly has taken both chlomipramine and xanax/alprazolam twice a day, every day, since summer 2008. We didn’t

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Herding Insights

Over the last couple of weeks, I had the chance to glean insights about Lilly’s recent herding lesson where (at least in my mind) things didn’t go so

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Countersurfing for Health

First, it was peaches. Then, we had to do a banana intervention.  And, now … what kind of fruit and/or vegetable heist do you suppose resulted in Ginko

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Border Collie-Mix Puppy Needs Home

My friend and pro writing colleague Allie Johnson, who is a world-class dog foster mom and animal welfare advocate not to mention the author of the awesome Pet

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Champion of My Heart Honored for Community Engagement

A couple of weeks ago, I got a funny voice-mail message from Kim Sporrer, who handles communication stuff for the Humane Society of Boulder Valley (where we adopted

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