Train your dog to be a Super Dog!
Hello, thank you for joining me today in the exploration of the concept of doggedness, the power of habit, and whether or not you’ve experienced that elusive state of “flow .” If you are reading this blog, chances are you have a good amount of doggedness already. After all, you are actively researching and gathering …
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I was motivated to write this blog in response to a story a friend told me about his experience with his dog at a local dog park. My friend (name withheld for privacy reasons) was having issues with his herding dog fear-biting when stressed out by encounters with other dogs. His solution was to put …
The time has come… well, almost. In three and a half weeks, we will be departing from our home in Buzzards Bay Massachusetts by car with our senior rat terrier, Mandy in tow. We will be headed to Wartrace Tennessee, where time stands still (their unofficial motto) so that we can pick up our newest …
If you believe that the meaning of life is all about continual self-improvement then, congratulations, you’ve got a growth mindset. If somehow you’ve been convinced that a person’s, or dog’s for that matter, intelligence and abilities are fixed traits then, unfortunately, you may be getting stuck in a fixed-mindest rut which may be limiting your …
Read more “Becoming the Calm Leader your Dog Loves and Respects”
Being an aspiring canine whisperer, I like to keep up-to-date on dog-related science which is why this article caught my eye as it attempts to shed light on murky genetic issues that have long eluded scientists. Though an interesting study, the results are not really that surprising to anyone who has spent a lot of …
I’ve heard it said that everything you surround yourself with, everything you choose, is a reflection of you. In my case, I have surrounded myself with intense bitches so the bar has been set high. However, on a self-indulgent whim, I thought a pop-psychology personality test would, perhaps, shed additional light on what kind of …
Mandy, our fourteen-year-old rat terrier has been quite deaf for a number of years now. I used to think she was just being stubborn when she would ignore my calls to come in the house and instead wander around for ages in the winter’s cold after doing her business. Then one day, April says to …
Read more “Deaf Dogs: Causes, Concerns, Creative Workarounds”
If you are anything like me, a closeted hippy, then you may be familiar with the Human Potential Movement. If you’ve lived through the 1960s or like to watch documentaries then, no doubt, you will have heard the terms transcendental meditation, primal scream therapy, encounter groups, and quite possibly you are even hip to the …
I just received an email this morning from a customer of our property maintenance company praising the window cleaning job we had recently done for them. They said that we “strive for perfection”, and it’s true. Although I strive to be motivated by my own personal quest for quality, it does feel good to be …
The biggest mistake I made as a novice dog trainer was worrying about the opinions of others; I was worried about what they (total strangers) thought of my reactive Pitbull and worried about what they thought of me. When Happy, my lovely Pitbull, started foaming at the mouth and tugging like mad to get at …
