Playing ‘fetch’ is a great form of mental and physical exercise for dogs. Moreover, the game provides an excellent opportunity for you to bond with your dog and teach her to share. While some dogs are instinctively great at the game, many dogs struggle to enjoy it. Well, it is a hard game to follow! Your dog…
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Mia Bella – Building patience in food-driven dogs
Mia Bella is highly food motivated. This means she’ll sit, paw, and jump through hoops for food. Of course, this could also mean that she doesn’t do much if there’s no treat in hand. From a trainer’s perspective, being food motivated is great because I know how to get her to do things for me…
Ginger at the School of Life!
Ginger, our 1.5 yr Golden Retriever recently visited the School of Life, a school for children from lower socio-economic backgrounds in Mumbai, India. The school emphasizes speaking in English and provides extra help in the regular school subjects like math and geography. Ginger visited the children to reduce their fear in dogs, and learn about handing…
Why is Ginger Barking every evening?
Ginger gets two meals, morning walks, evening walks, play dates and a lot of love and affection. She seems to have a content life. One day, she started barking in the evening. That was a bit unnatural. Maybe she wanted to pee. She was allowed outside, and, turns out, she did want to pee! The…
Old dog, New tricks – Johnny Mae, the Pitbull
Teaching an ‘old’ dog new tricks is easy, no matter what age or breed! Johnny Mae is a pitbull rescue from Austin, Texas. She’s about 3 years old and moved to Baltimore with her pet parent last year. First off, pitbulls are great! There’s no need to fear or discriminate against them. ‘Pitbull’ is a type of…
Mario – A Large Lost Dog
Just emotions and observations A frantic phone call from my brother early in the morning yesterday – he found an abandoned German Shepherd Dog (GSD) at the bus stop. The dog was very thin, and covered in dirt and ticks. He was very hungry, and grabbed the biscuit pieces from my hand. None of the local workers…
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