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		<title>Exercise Doesn&#8217;t Make Your Dog Happy, PLAY DOES</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 02:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t Confuse a Dog Being Tired For Happiness. Exercise is good, but only if it involves play for your dog. Many in the dog training and behavior field, suggest exercising your dog to overcome many behavioral issues your dog may have. While exercise is of vital importance for the physical health of your dog. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespiritdog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3421724&#038;post=5290&#038;subd=thespiritdog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mother Nature Doesn&#8217;t Like Spring Fashions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Country Spring Weather Apparently mother nature doesn&#8217;t care all that much for the early spring fashion line. Up here at Spirit Animal Sanctuary in Boonville New York, it&#8217;s been cold, miserable and either raining, snowing or my personal favorite freezing rain. My guess would be mother nature is waiting for the summer fashion line [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespiritdog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3421724&#038;post=5279&#038;subd=thespiritdog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Old Chow Mix, Abandoned and Left for Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jackson, Needs your help now more than ever. Jackson a 10 year old Chow Mix, was abandoned and left for dead. When his elderly dad died and the rest of Jackson’s lifelong family which is the only family he ever knew, picked up and moved away. Leaving Jackson confused, scared and alone. If you think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespiritdog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3421724&#038;post=5254&#038;subd=thespiritdog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Sad Fear Aggressive Dog To Happy Dog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scared Dogs Some people have said &#8220;I work magic&#8221; when it comes to helping troubled dogs, while others have called me &#8220;A miracle worker&#8221;.  It&#8217;s very flattering and yes it does make me feel good. The reality of it is, I am neither a miracle worker nor do I work magic. Through many years of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespiritdog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3421724&#038;post=5246&#038;subd=thespiritdog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Alpha Dog is like John Travolta</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alpha Dog Behavior For those of you who didn&#8217;t see the comedy movie &#8221; Get Shorty &#8221; you&#8217;re not going to understand the reference. Sorry about that ! An alpha or dominant dog is EXACTLY like the character John Travolta played &#8220;Chili Palmer&#8221; in the movie, Get Shorty.  In the movie John Travolta plays a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespiritdog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3421724&#038;post=5240&#038;subd=thespiritdog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fear Aggression is Normal Behavior</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 04:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In all probability you may think you have done something wrong, if your dog continues to display aggressive behaviors that are rooted in fear. Fear aggressive dogs are a very common problem for many people, this is due to the inherited behavior of the survival instinct that your dog is born with. A certain percentage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespiritdog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3421724&#038;post=5234&#038;subd=thespiritdog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fear Aggression : Why Our Dogs Fear Strangers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fear Aggression with People Our dogs can display fearful behaviors, which can lead to growling, lunging and barking ferociously at strangers or distant family members and maybe even biting, mainly  because of us. You would be hard pressed to find anybody that didn&#8217;t take their new little puppy around everywhere they went, met tons of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespiritdog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3421724&#038;post=5222&#038;subd=thespiritdog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spirit Animal Sanctuary Videos: Carci, Bubbers, Big-E-Banks and Bear Bear</title>
		<link>http://thespiritdog.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/spirit-animal-sanctuary-videos-carci-bubbers-big-e-banks-and-bear-bear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spirit Animal Sanctuary The Happiness Factor Is the key to a centered and well adjusted dog. &#160; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZmq-T0x5Wg Your love and generous support, makes this all possible. Alan Papszycki  &#8220;The Spirit Dog&#8221; President and Founder Spirit Animal Sanctuary. 2539 East Road . Boonville, New York 13309 &#60;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespiritdog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3421724&#038;post=5205&#038;subd=thespiritdog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spirit Stories, Wagzie</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spirit Animal Sanctuary When my daughter, Melynda, was in college, she worked at an animal shelter for a time. When she was there, she fell madly in love with a dog whom we later called Wagzie. Now, my husband Joe and I didn&#8217;t want a dog. Not one bit. We had already shared our lives [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespiritdog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3421724&#038;post=5197&#038;subd=thespiritdog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Holidays from Spirit Animal Sanctuary&#8217;s Founder Alan Papszycki</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 04:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to wish you and your loved ones, a very merry holiday and a happy and safe new year. Sincerely, Alan Papszycki Spirit Animal Sanctuary The Spirit Dog<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespiritdog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3421724&#038;post=5187&#038;subd=thespiritdog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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