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Good Pet Parents
Good pet parents are a new breed of pet owners who make sure that they are armed with the best information and the best conditions to raise a happier, healthier, better behaved pet. There isn’t really...
View ArticleAnimal Training 101: Request, Response, Reinforce
Above: My students are always excited and happy to go to animal school! Want to bump your training up to the 3rd power? If so, use the power of three–and if you have no idea about what I am talking...
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Aggression A Dirty Little Secret?
Animal professionals take a calculated risk when they work with animals. Knowing you face the risk of an attack or death is a reality when it comes to working with wild animals but what about...
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Are you making things worse?
As an animal professional I tend to be different from the norm and since I’ve been in my field a long time, don’t see things the same way as the average pet owner does. Plus, I take the things I know...
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How are your animal observation skills?
Lately I’ve been out in public more than I have been in some time. If you are a subscriber, you know that I am getting ready to start seeing clients again after being unavailable for the past few...
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Delinquent Dogs & Misbehaving Mutts Come!
Do you have a delinquent dog or puppy whose behavior is a pain? If so, it is time for animal school–and there is a special opportunity for pet parents that will help you morph your precious pet into a...
View ArticleRover the Top?
On a lighter note, I thought you might be interested in what these pet owners are spending on their precious pets. Good news for pet parents is that many businesses are now including pets in their...
View ArticleDoggie Deliquent
I’ve just had a new arrival to my doggie boot camp and I don’t know who is more exhausted between the two of us! This doggie deliquent is a catahoula leopard dog is a high energy dog. This boy is great...
View ArticleMeet Your Match & Home for the Holidays
I’ve been around long enough to remember when holiday adoptions of animals were discouraged. Research now says different and this humane society is encouraging people to adopt and give animals as...
View ArticleHoliday Pet Giving: The Controversy
Recently I blogged about how some humane societies have changed their minds about giving pets as gifts during the holidays. This article gives some additional musings about why gifting a pet around the...
View ArticlePetsercise: Healthy & Fit Pets & Owners
If you have a New Year’s resolution to get fit…include your pet. Here is a site where you can estimate the degree of your weight problem and your pet’s weight to get on a petsercise program–it has a...
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Animal Expert Shares 12 “Take Your Dog to Work Day” Tips
Animal expert Diana L Guerrero says that all dogs need a job but on Friday, June 22, 2007 thousands of businesses will take this advice to a new level. Take Your Dog to Work Day (TYDTWD) was first...
View ArticleReader Q & A: Are Older Dogs More Difficult to Train?
Thanks to those of you who are submitting questions. It takes time to get to them all so I’ll just start with a couple of recent inquiries: Is it more difficult to train an older dog?It depends. In...
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First Pet for Kids
One of the questions people ask me is what is a good first pet? It really depends on the household and the child. I usually dissuade people from getting an animal too early for multiple reasons. First...
View ArticleAnimals in the News
More news out about animals hits the news weekly. This week it is that the domestication of felines took place much further back than originally thought–some 100,000 years according to a short snippet...
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Hiking in Fawnskin
Above: The path home. My favorite time to go out in the woods is after a storm. Yesterday we took the dogs out on to a main road since everything was so icy. Above: Natural flocking. Above: Dogs always...
View ArticleDog Parks Gone Wild: Pet Safety Tips
Some dog parks are like a barking lot, where the bark is worst than the bite, but more and more pet owners are avoiding these settings because of beastly behavior. Unfortunately, it seems that bad...
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House Training Audio Book Now Available!
I’ve been busy with some new teleclasses and also getting ready to move this site. Yikes! So, I probably will be scarce for a short while. Below is a shameless promotion of the last class–now available...
View ArticleInterview Up & Busy with New Website
Sorry to be so scarce–the good news is that the new design is done and I am moving the site over now. It takes time because arkanimals.com is hundreds of pages without the blog–we are going to test it...
View ArticlePet Dental Month: How to Brush Your Dog’s Teeth Video
February is pet dental health month so here is a video that might be useful for those of you who have not been brushing those canine teeth. In the meantime, I am working long hours to try and get the...
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