In the News: Never Shock a Puppy

Thanks to Kim Sporrer, media maven at Humane Society of Boulder Valley, a few newspapers have mentioned Never Shock a Puppy in articles about the humane society’s No-Choke

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5 Ways a Fearful Dog Improves Your Life

I sometimes wonder if I’d ever deliberately adopt a truly fearful dog again. Truth? I didn’t know what I was getting myself into with Lilly. Still, I cannot

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Fearful Dog Training Update: The Cheese Meter

Last Saturday, while out running errands with Lilly at my side (… well, with Lilly behind me in her crate …), we stopped at our veterinary hospital to

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Fading Xanax: Spoke Too Soon

Lilly has been off the xanax for a month now. While at first report, she showed no ill effects, drug withdrawal, or behavior problems. Things may have changed

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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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Kids and Dogs

For her 10th birthday outing, I took one of my nieces to the big Colorado Kennel Club’s Rocky Mountain Cluster dog show a couple weekends ago. She lives

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Beaglemania: Dog Book Review

The first in a new series of pet rescue mysteries, Beaglemania is the latest novel from writer Linda O. Johnston. Set inside a well-funded, no-kill shelter near Los

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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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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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