Holidays are fun, right?
The holidays are nearly here. Visitors, music, food… what could be better?
Dogs
Help, We’re Being Invaded! How to Train Polite Greetings
By trainer@canines... on 10/04/2023Holiday fun?
The last quarter of the year is a rough one for dogs.
Harnessing the Power of Your Dog’s Nose: An Introduction to K9 Nose Work
By Laurie Luck on 08/02/2023A dog’s nose is an amazing thing to behold. Dogs have the ability to: wiggle each nostril independently, breathe in through the holes in the front of the nose and exhale through the side slits, and discern individual odors making up what we could call a “scent.” Humans have about 5 million cells devoted to smelling; dogs have up to 220 million. Not only that, but dogs have four times the brain power devoted to processing scents! We smell “vegetable soup,” but a dog smells each individual ingredient. Dogs’ noses are so powerful they can detect one tablespoon of sugar in the amount of water it would take to fill two Olympic-sized swimming pools!
What to Do When Your Dog Loses His Cue: Training Outdoors with Distractions
By Christina Waggoner on 04/07/2023Please come
“He only does what I ask when he wants to. It’s really hit or miss.”
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By Karen Pryor on 02/02/2023February means Valentine's Day, a happy time for me as a child. I lived with the principal of our school, Mrs. Sturley, who set up a card table in the parlor so I could spend hours pasting together the paper, lace, stand-up figures, and stick-on hearts and lovebirds to make twenty-one special valentines for my twenty-one classmates. Sometimes I signed mine; sometimes, daringly, I wrote "Guess who?"
