Dog Recharging Station

Lately, I wish I had one of those charging mats. You know, those things that you just lay your electronics upon and like magic they get charged back

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Dog Words I Can Do Without

When I wrote a bit about feeding dogs a raw diet, over on my Dog Food Dish blog, I included a mini-rant about how when raw proponents start

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Shock Collar on the Brain

Many of the Never Shock a Puppy coalition members attended BlogPaws West in Denver, back in September.  We even enjoyed a team dinner one night. I was so

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Shaping Success for People and Dogs

One of the things I love so much about positive reinforcement dog training, and clicker training specifically, is how dogs learn to love learning and how brave they

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Burdens Our Dogs Carry

One of our Twitter friends (@IntuitiveBridge) recently lost some followers for essentially saying that we shouldn’t make our dogs emotionally responsible for us. The backlash stemmed from this

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Changing Pet Insurance Companies

I first met Laura Bennett, who gives genuine hugs and refers to herself as the “chief embracer” from Embrace Pet Insurance, at the original BlogPaws event in April

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Barking at the Gate Revisited

A while back I delivered a full-on rant about the (insert strongly-worded editorial comment here) FedEx guy. So, what’s a girl to do when one of many UPS

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The Long-Distance Drop It

Once upon a time, I got Lilly to put down a baby bunny. She grabbed it on the hill to the west. The only sound I heard? A

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Animal Intelligence

BlogPaws West begins today, and I have a million and one things I need to get done, so just a quick post about this TIME magazine article about

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Ginko & The Giant Pile of Peach Pits

You’ve surely heard the tale of James and the Giant Peach. Well, today let me tell the the story of Ginko and the Giant Pile of Peach Pits.

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