How Big Should a Cat’s Litter Box Be?
By Jennifer Mauger
I was recently in a home where the resident cat was eliminating outside the litter box on a regular basis. He was a large Maine Coon mix weighing over 20 pounds. When I went to look at the litter ...
“Did You Know Your Dog Barks All Day?”
By Julie Naismith

Scents Can Help Dogs Relax
A small study published in May looked at the effects of four scents on dogs in a shelter kennel. The focus was whether the ...
YOUR Dog, No Comparison
This is a subject I've always meant to write about and somehow it always slips my mind until the topic crops ups with another client of mine - that of comparisons. What I mean is those comparisons we make between our own dogs and other ...
The Unintended Consequences of Shock
(Confidentiality Notice: Names in this blog have been changed to protect privacy, but the facts remain unchanged. Photographs have been used with written consent.)
Betsy is a kind person who contacted a shelter in June of 2016 to help ...
Scheduling Your Rewards
So...there we are teaching our dogs lots of new things and he's responding beautifully - treat, treat, treat (yummy!) At what point though, do we stop dishing out all these lovely delicacies? This is a question I'm asked multiple times per ...
Clicker Training for Cats (6/6)
By Paula Garber and Francine Miller
Inter-Cat Aggression
Living with cats who do not get along is stressful for everyone. Sometimes the cats need to be completely separated and then formally ...
You know you own a separation anxiety dog when…
By Julie Naismith

