by Pet Professional Guild Cat Committee | Jul 5, 2018 | Animal Behavior, Pet Guardians
By Victoria Blais Desperately visiting a veterinarian I had never seen before, I had a sick feeling in my stomach when I was encouraged to put on protective leather gloves to hold my highly anxious cat, Haddie. My normally sweet, …
by BARKS from the Guild | Jul 2, 2018 | Animal Behavior, Training
By Yvette Van Veen Toys…are neither good nor bad. Rather it’s how they are used. They can strengthen behaviour you like. If you’re not careful, they will strengthen behaviour you dislike. There are more toys out there than you can...
by Pet Professional Guild Cat Committee | Jun 6, 2018 | Animal Behavior, Pet Guardians, Training
By Jennifer Mauger I was recently in a home where the resident cat was eliminating outside the litter box on a regular basis. He was a large Maine Coon mix weighing over 20 pounds. When I went to look at …
by PPGWorld | Jun 1, 2018 | Animal Behavior, Pet Guardians, Training
By Julie Naismith “Did you know that your dog barks all day?” my neighbour asked me one day. The simple answer was: no, I didn’t. It was this conversation that led me on the path to discovering my dog-ownership bombshell:...
by Pam Hogle | May 28, 2018 | Animal Behavior
A small study published in May looked at the effects of four scents on dogs in a shelter kennel. The focus was whether the aromatherapy would help the dogs relax. Though it’s a small study and, oddly the only one...
by Anna Francesca Bradley | May 26, 2018 | Animal Behavior, Training
This is a subject I’ve always meant to write about and somehow it always slips my mind until the topic crops ups with another client of mine – that of comparisons. What I mean is those comparisons we make between …
