This post had nothing whatsoever to do with dogs
Fun on the Colorado River. I spent 15 days paddling the Colorado River with a group of women over 40. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WilnydeFBb0?rel=0] You can still make a donation to help animals at the Nebraska Humane Society. I have been part of Blogathon2011. 24 hours of blogging every hour.
Neophobia
I figured I'd start the new day, for those of you who went to bed, with a video showing fairly typical behavior for a dog who did not experience novelty as a pup. Sunny has lived in our house for 6 years. The behavior you see in this video is caused by a change in ...
Says who?
One of the statements I often hear in regard to training both fearful and non-fearful dogs is that someone used a particular technique with their dog and it 'worked'. I have to assume that what they mean is that they were able to change their dog's behavior to meet their needs. 'Their' being the owner's. ...
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Make mine a double!
I'm participating in Blog-a-thon 2011 to help raise money for homeless animals at the Nebraska Humane Society It’s getting late. I’m fading. How about a double medium latte! If you donate the $3.50 to buy me a virtual high caffeine drink I may be able to push through to morning. Anyone? Click here to buy ...
WTH?
Ok, so it's getting late and as I was flipping through my catalog of clip art I came upon this image. Never in my life could I imagine ever needing to use it, and that made me want to come up with an excuse to include a black & white drawing of a man with ...
Dogs go crazy too
Donate to help the people helping the animals. Crazy may not be the clinical term for it, but dogs can also go from being normal, healthy, high functioning dogs to behavioral car wrecks (also not the clinical term). Henry David Thoreau wrote- "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with ...
Dogs I have loved
It's time for a bit nostalgia, which is way better than 2am angst. I was born into a household with a dog, a black mongrel with brown spotted eye brows. I heard once that Native Americans had a name for these markings on a dog, but damned if I can remember what it was. When ...
Incompatible behaviors
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