Sometimes – more often than you’d think – when I meet with clients, it feels more like a confessional than like a lesson. They know …
2016
Buyer Beware
Here is a thing that’s important to me: living a lifestyle of positive reinforcement. I think I stole that phrasing from Kathy Sdao, but …
Ear Cropping and Tail Docking
I’m a sucker for strong looking dogs; Dobermans, Dogos, Danes… just beautiful. Back when I got Athena, my Doberman, I knew next to nothing about …
Indulge Me, Just This Once
I try not to make this blog all about MY DOG and MY LIFE because that gets boring really quickly if you aren’t… me. But …
Dog Cognition
It should come as no surprise as anyone that I’m a dog training and behaviour nerd. How do their brains work? How do they process …
A Year in Review
Today, Facebook reminded me that it was a year ago today that I officially launched this site. Looking back on it, I can hardly believe …
Space Doggity
BSL is Bullshit
If there were fewer humans in the world, there would consequently be fewer opportunities for vicious attacks by humans; terrorism, murder, whatever. Right? So the …
An Open Letter to National Geographic
I grew up loving National Geographic; back then, a magazine, not a TV channel. As kids, we got the National Geographic Kids magazine every month …
Today Made My Heart Happy
I’ve been walking Baboo, Sugar, Dude, and Bella for almost a year now. Boo, Sugar, and Dude are yorkies, and littermates. They’re little spitfires. Bella …