Dog Training and the Toxic Triple Whammy, Part 2
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- Mar 14, 2016
- 6 min
Dog Training and the Toxic Triple Whammy, Part 1
Oh! My heart is broken, another crushing blow to me and my geek tendencies… :) The recent hoo-has involving a celebrity TV dog trainer,...
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- Nov 23, 2015
- 4 min
I Can’t vs. I Don’t Know How
Good morning! It’s a beautiful, cold clear day in Mt. Shasta, and I’ve been thinking. (I do that sometimes.) Here’s my thought for the...
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- Jul 31, 2015
- 10 min
Help! My Dog Doesn’t Respect Me… (Part 3)
Imagine this—my favorite analogy: we decide we’re going to take up ballet dancing and we go to the studio for our first lesson. When...
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- Jul 26, 2015
- 8 min
Help! My Dog Doesn’t Respect Me… (Part 2)
In the first part of this blog, we ended with wondering where oh where do pet owners come up with a notion of “respect,” a word they...
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- Jul 25, 2015
- 5 min
Help! My Dog Doesn’t Respect Me… (Part 1)
Well, there really isn’t any nice way to say it. The chances are extremely good that—oh, no, it’s true! Your dog has no respect for you...
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- Feb 1, 2015
- 14 min
Saying Hello and the Need for Empathy
Imagine you are walking down the street, minding your own business and enjoying a leisurely stroll in peace and quiet. Around the corner...
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- Jan 19, 2015
- 9 min
Making Your Voice—and Your Money—Count: Some Tips from an Animal Welfare Professional
If you’re like a lot of people—and you’re reading this blog—you love animals. Or at least, animals of your species of choice, be it...
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- Nov 22, 2014
- 21 min
Two Things We Need to Know About Our Dog’s Performance (and Ours), Part II
In the first part of this blog topic, I talked about how stress can impact both our performance and that of our dogs—with an underlying...
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- Nov 2, 2014
- 12 min
Two Things We Need to Know About Our Dog’s Performance (and Ours), Part I
I admit it: I am a Behavior Geek. My idea of a wildly exciting night is curling up with my cats, my dog, a glass of warm milk and a DVD...
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- Oct 24, 2014
- 15 min
TINKER DAY! A Celebration
It’s dark in the back yard, nearing 10 o’clock, and all hell has broken loose. During the day, the house next to mine is used as a...
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- Aug 17, 2014
- 11 min
On Leaders, Babies and Bathwater, Part Five
Oh boy. In the last part, I talked about the two flavors of Strategic Following: Following because someone has greater expertise, and...
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- Aug 7, 2014
- 12 min
On Leaders, Babies and Bathwater, Part Four
The second kind of Following, what I’m calling Strategic Following, is in many ways the most complex and nuanced. I’m not blindly...
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- Jul 28, 2014
- 9 min
On Leaders, Babies and Bathwater, Part Three
In Part 2, I asserted that if we really want to understand how Leading works, we might do better to look at it from the extremely...
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- Jul 24, 2014
- 10 min
On Leaders, Babies and Bathwater, Part Two
In this part, I said I was going to explore the other kind of leading—the kind that we really do want to use to reach success with our...
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- Jul 6, 2014
- 6 min
On Leaders, Babies and Bathwater, Part One
Though I myself think that living in the Social Media/Information Age has its benefits, there are also some downsides. For one thing,...
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- Jun 9, 2014
- 8 min
The Absolute Real Truth About Dogs & Dog Behavior, Part 2 of 2
In this first part of this blog, I talked a little about animal trainers vs. strictly dog trainers. Now I’m going to turn to the...
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- Jun 7, 2014
- 6 min
The Absolute Real Truth About Dogs & Dog Behavior, Part 1 of 2
I’m joking, of course, but you might not know it if you don’t know me. Those of you who do know me know that I’m kind of a geek—I like...
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- Mar 31, 2014
- 4 min
On the joy of training your dog
As the Behavior Program Coordinator at the Siskiyou Humane Society, it's been my privilege over the years to meet many very fine young...
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- Mar 23, 2014
- 5 min
On Spring, Love, Dogs and Volcanos
Oh, it's so good to be back! As many of you know, last summer a detached retina put me on somewhat limited training duty. Four eye...
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