by BARKS from the Guild | Oct 6, 2020 | Pet Guardians
By Gail Radtke Porter came into Sam’s life at the age of 8 weeks old as a healthy, happy, and adorable American pit bull terrier pup. Sam had met both Porter’s breeder and his biological mother and could not have...
by BARKS from the Guild | Sep 8, 2020 | Animal Behavior
By Dr. Sheryl L. Walker With a background in behavior analysis and animal behavior, I am easily captured by behavior in the wild. I was driving to work a couple of weeks ago and stopped to watch a family of …
by BARKS from the Guild | Jul 24, 2020 | PPG Summit, Shelter & Rescue
By Charleen Cordo For 15 years, I worked at an established training and adoption facility for shelter dogs at a facility for mentally ill youths. The dogs, who mostly came from a rural community, I felt that, judging by their...
by BARKS from the Guild | Jun 11, 2020 | Animal Behavior, BARKS from the Guild, Pet Guardians, Training
By Cecelia Sumner Not surprisingly, I love living with dogs. I embrace their essential dogginess. Barking, jumping, digging, hunting, these are all normal canine behaviors. I recognize I need to provide an outlet for these behaviors to keep my dogs...
by Daniel Antolec | May 13, 2020 | Current Events, Pet Guardians
In what seems like the blink of an eye the COVID-19 pandemic changed the whole world, and has hit the dog service industry particularly hard. There certainly are a lot of things on the downside, but I am finding some …