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It’s All in the Management
By Dr. Morag Heirs
When you are dealing with a deaf puppy or an adolescent deaf dog in a rescue environment, mouthing and nipping is often high on the list of problem behaviors.
Do deaf dogs and puppies mouth, nip or grab more than hearing dogs? The honest answer here is that we just do ...
Empowerment for a Better Quality of Life
By Miki Saito
When looking after a blind dog, it is vital to know his abilities as well as his challenges so we do not limit his world any more than necessary.
Blind dogs still need to explore and achieve things on their own. All we have to do is set up their environment differently and ...
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Managing Dog-Dog Greetings
Recently I attended a dog event and observed about 30 dogs and their handlers come and go in the course of three hours. Most of the dogs were taken to one another for greetings. Call it the curse of knowledge, but I see such interactions ...
Spice Up Your Walks!
Long explorations in the country, splashing around in the sea, trekking up hills, they're the reasons we love having our dogs and enjoy their companionship. From time to time though, sometimes things become just a little bit 'samey'! We can ...
For The Curious – Your Questions on Deaf, Blind Dogs Answered
By Debbie Bauer
Thank you to everyone who contributed questions and wonderings for this blog post, and for what will probably be several more to come! (I received a lot of questions!) Here are a few to get you started:
What kind of cues ...
Portland Blog Competition: Lessons from Bogie
By Shannon Finch
I want to warn you at the outset, Bogie's story doesn't have a happy ending. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong for this dog, with mistakes compounded by more mistakes. It's been over 15 years since I worked with ...
A Lure By Any Name is Still a Lure
By Yvette Van Veen
Luring a dog towards something he fears is a problematic practice most recognize. Regardless of whether you use aversives in training or not, it’s an issue because it can create a slew of problems.
From the dog’s ...
Pet Tutor…My Hero
By Smart Animal Training
(A letter from Malena DeMartini-Price CTC CDBC)
Dear Wes & Amanda at Smart Animal Training,
I wanted to tell you about a client that I have been working with for a little while now that has been absolutely ...
Five Days from Fear to Fun – Classical Counterconditioning
By Yvette Van Veen
I decided to spend some recent holiday time working on a whistle recall. This is when a dog learns to come to the sound of a whistle. Pamela Dennison has a number of resources on how to teach this skill for anyone who ...
Dogs CAN Learn That … and That, and That!
Do you know anyone who has more than one service dog because "one dog couldn't be taught to do all the tasks" that person needs? Have you ever heard a dog owner (or worse, trainer) claim that dogs "can't learn" to distinguish similar commands ...