Cornell Rapes Maddie’s Fund and Putnam Humane Society Leadership Fails.

November 18, 2011

About 4 million dogs and cats are euthanized in US shelters every year. That’s about 10,000 per day, a sad and shameful statistic for a country where most households consider their pets family members. Even PETA, an extremist in the animal rights community, kills over 90 percent of the animals that enter their shelter. Is [...]

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Personal Protection Dogs – Some things you should know.

January 18, 2011

Before you buy a personal protection dog or consider training a dog for personal protection, you may want to do some research.  There really isn’t much advice out there for the person looking to obtain a personal protection dog besides from those who are selling personal protection dogs to you.  I get emailed a lot [...]

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Protective Gloves and Extinction in Dog Aggression Rehab

November 13, 2010

We get a lot of emails inquiring about the gloves that we use when working with dog aggression rehabilitation.  There are many different choices out there ranging from leather work gloves to heavy duty specialty gloves with many protective layers. The most important thing to remember is that none of the gloves on the market [...]

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How to Clean a Dog’s Ears – the Stress Free Way!

October 26, 2010

Cleaning a dog’s ears does not have to be a stressful experience for you or your dog. Earl and I threw together this video to give you a crash course in the pertinent anatomy of the dog’s ear and a technique that maximizes the comfort and effectiveness of cleaning those fuzzy ears that we all [...]

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How to Clip Dog Nails Without Making Them Bleed!

October 24, 2010

Here is a quick post that will give you some tips on clipping your dog’s nails. Most of the important information will be found in the embedded video. I decided to do a video on cutting nails, because I realized that too many dogs are unnecessarily traumatized during the process. Although, it is good to [...]

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Train Your Dog To Enjoy Wearing a Muzzle.

September 1, 2010

More and more people are training their dogs to wear a muzzle so that they have one in hand in case it is needed at the veternarian’s office or for introducing their dog safely to another pet, guest, or child.  When a dog is happy to see a muzzle and put it on – the [...]

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Cherry Eye Treatment – Home Remedy For Dogs

June 23, 2010

So I wake up one morning and to my surprise my own little rescue puppy from the South, “Dixie”, is greeting me with the signature pink bulging bump from the corner of her eye known as cherry eye. So what is cherry eye anyway?  Technically, it refers to the prolapse of the nictitating membrane of [...]

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“Dominance in Dog Training Debunked” or is it?

May 4, 2010

1. Dog behavior can’t be explained through wolf behavior. 2. Dominance is not a factor in dog behavior or dog-human relationships? Are these revolutionary discoveries or is it irresponsible twisted science? According to The Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT), the largest association of dog trainers in the world, these claims are absolutely true and [...]

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Flooding in Dog Training – good, bad, or just misused? You be the judge.

February 25, 2010

Ever since ,“The Dog Whisperer”, Cesar Millan became popular on television several years ago I have noticed a trend in popular dog training literature to discredit all his techniques to the degree of even rewriting and twisting commonly known facts to fit their arguments – including the technique of flooding. Before I go on defending [...]

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Johnny Weir and PETA Compromise – Johnny Weir to skate with PETA’s dead dog skins.

February 18, 2010

Just thought it would be a good solution, considering PETA doesn’t approve of him wearing fur, but PETA also kills just about every dog that enters their “humane society” and doesn’t believe in non-kill shelters or dog sanctuaries.  They have literally thousands of dead dog skins to spare every year – they can even sell [...]

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