A Word About Canine Separation Anxiety

Separation anxiety is one of the more challenging behavior modification problems you can run across if your dog suffers from this terribly disturbing affliction. This is really tough on your dog, not to mention the stress it can cause you also, the dog owner.
Dealing with a dog that has separation anxiety is fundamentally very simple, [...]

Why Does Your Dog Bark at You, Answer

OK, what I was really trying to get at here is how some dogs have poor vision, whether it’s just bad overall eye sight or the night vision thing that Adrienne had mentioned in her comment.
That’s one of the answers, the poor vision thing.
Another reason that your own dog will bark at you whether you [...]

Breed Specific Thought Processes Affect Your Own Dog

This has to do with how our own breed prejudices can have an adverse affect on how we think our own dogs behave.
Recently I went to Stewart’s, a local gas / convenience store. Whenever I go anywhere I usually take along a bunch of dogs for the ride. On this particular day I only had [...]

Dogs Don’t Understand Choke Chains : The Dogs Mind

Choke collars or choke chains are one of the most ineffective and on rare occasions dangerous, training collars ever invented. A dog does not understand the principle of getting choked, that’s why so many dogs will choke themselves while they are on their daily walks. Whether the collar the dog is wearing is a choke [...]

The Point Of The Previous Behavior Post

The point of the previous behavior post, is, many dog owners are taught that eating before your dog or making them wait for their food is one of the many requirements for establishing yourself as your dogs alpha.
If you feel the need to train your dog to wait for his treats or food, that’s all [...]

Do Alpha Dogs Walk in Front of Their Pack ?

The leaders of the pack (alphas), don’t necessarily lead or follow, they just are. And I will use the alpha terminology very loosely, as it doesn’t really exist as we think it does.
So much is written and adhered to by the dog training community in regards to who should walk first, you or your [...]

To Play or Not To Play Dog Stuff

Well, play of course !!!
It is far more fun to play, than not to play in your dogs mind. Your dogs whole life revolves around you. So if your little or big guy (dog) wants some attention or more to the point wants to play with you when you come home from work or school, [...]

Dogs Are Not Stubborn

Dogs are not stubborn, being stubborn is a human trait or learned behavior that can be exhibited whenever we feel like being a little shit. Dogs on the other hand can display behaviors that we may interpret as being defiant or stubborn, but the reality of this behavior will most likely fall into one of [...]

Eight Golf Balls, Two Testicles Removed from Rottweiler

Did you see this ? I recently saw this in The Poodle and Dog Blog, over on Typepad. Ya gotta check this it out, http://thepoodleanddogblog.typepad.com/the_poodle_and_dog_blog/2009/06/puppy-swallows-8-golf-balls.html
In the twenty something years that I have been doing this dog thing, only two times have we had to bring a dog to the vet office to have a foreign [...]

The Socializing of Bella Bear

These dog photos, will show our normal routine for socializing new dogs here at the spirit dog sanctuary. Little Bella Bear the brindle terrier mix was pretty comfortable meeting some of our other dogs.  Even for the dogs that were described to us as having dog aggression problems, our introduction process is the same.
It’s ( [...]

Submissive Wolf Dog with Two Standard Poodles

Dogs and Wolves
This is a photo of Big-Big at about 2½ years old meeting two of my friend’s Standard Poodles. To get a better look, click on the picture to enlarge it.
What you will see is what in some peoples mind is a ‘big bad wolf ‘, clearly showing submissiveness  to two other dogs with [...]

Can a Wolf & Cat Live Together

Some will say, ” I Think Not “.
Some will say, ” Why Not “.
Some will say, ” I Don’t Care “.
While others will say, “Don’t you dare !”
Yet some will say, “I don’t know ?”.
And others will say, “Give it a go !”.
But if you ask me, I will say,
” Take a look, then you [...]