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BARKS Podcast with Claire Staines of Lothlorien Dog Services
Join Niki Tudge and PPG Canine Committee chair Judy Luther as they Chat and Chuckle with Claire Staines of Lothlorien Dog Services in Scotland, UK.
Listen as they discuss bringing home a new puppy - the trials and tribulations...and so much more!
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BARKS News – March 2021
Listen to the March 2021 edition of BARKS News!
Highlights include:
FREE member event Up Your Business Game!
PPAB credentials now in French
White House dogs
Cat behavior call-in ...
BARKS Podcast with Lisa and Brad Waggoner: March 12, 2021
Join Niki Tudge and guests Lisa and Brad Waggoner of Cold Nose College in Murphy, North Carolina, as they discuss their work with the dog training program, RESCUED: Saving Detainees and Dogs One ...
Latest Articles
It’s All About Relationships.
I became a dog trainer to facilitate the relationship between dogs and humans. My goal was to create a relationship based on trust and understanding. By opening the lines of communication, I felt like I could achieve my goal of keeping more dogs in their homes and educate people about ...
May Your Bowl Always Be More Than Half-Full
Can dogs be optimists? Pessimists?
Many people see dogs as natural optimists. After all, dogs are very loving and amazingly forgiving of human foibles (and worse — just look at all the mistreated dogs who still love humans). Many dogs greet every stranger as a new best friend. And some dogs ...
The Curious Case of the Haunted Room
Sometimes, however many questions we ask, it's impossible to get to the bottom of just why a dog has developed a "weird" behaviour.
We can see the current antecedents, but what caused it to kick in originally?
In one of my recent behaviour consults I arrived to see a dog totally spooked by ...
Cooperative Towel Drying Your Dog – Part 2
We introduced you to Cali the Jack Russell Terrier, one of our great clients, in a previous post. Cali is a true testament to the power of positive training and the resilient nature of dogs.
Cali, did not like to be touched. She would bite people, when they tried to touch her. She also did ...
Do Animals Grieve?
"There is a cycle of love and death that shapes the lives of those who choose to travel in the company of animals. It is a cycle unlike any other. To those who have never lived through its turnings and walked its rocky path, our willingness to give our hearts with full knowledge that they will ...
A Simple Walk: Training a Puppy
There've been days this long, long winter — days when the sun hadn't been out in weeks, the wind was shrieking and the mercury read 35 but the wind chill was a bit less — that I wondered what in the world I was doing out walking my puppy all over the streets of my town.
Oona is just over ...
Car Woes: A Tale of Botched Socialization
Poor shivering, quivering Huckleberry. Not because it's cold out; she couldn't care less about that. This is fear. Huckleberry is about to experience something that makes most dogs jump for joy, and she's beside herself with fright: She's going for a ride in the car.
Part of this is ...
Cooperative Towel Drying Your Dog – Part 1
Meet Cali, the Jack Russell Terrier. Cali is a client's dog, who came to us for training after she bit three different people in less then a month. She was approximately 18 months when she started training with us. We were her "last hope" to keep her alive.
Cali's initial training started ...
Ground Scratching: Why Does My Dog Do It?
Why do some dogs scratch with their paws after they eliminate?
I recently read a discussion on Facebook about the meaning of this dog behavior. Some people’s speculations about the reasons for the behavior included:
Avoiding something or another behavior (displacement)
Expressing ...