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The Value of Non-Verbal Communication
By Angelica Steinker
Consent testing is an informal experiment which allows a dog to offer consent regarding a specific situation. Via her body language the dog communicates a yes or no response. This information is used to:
• Improve the quality of life of the dog.
• ...
BARKS Podcast with the PPG Advocacy Panel: Discussion #3 – Advocating to Let Dogs be Dogs, Cats be Cats, Equids Be Equids
Advocating to Let Dogs be Dogs, Cats be Cats, Equids Be Equids
Join the Pet Professional Guild (PPG) Advocacy Panel for a discussion on Advocating to Let Dogs be Dogs, Cats be Cats, Equids Be ...
The Ever-Changing World of Service Dog Training
By Veronica Sanchez
The service dog industry is ever growing and changing. With the expanding use of service dogs there has, unfortunately, also been abuse of laws pertaining to service ...
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2017 Podcasts
The Podcast for December 20th with Lara Joseph
Owner of The Animal Behavior Center, Lara Joseph, joins us to chat about her upcoming workshops at the PPG Behavior and Training Workshop at Best Friends: Building a Trusting Foundation and Target Training Parrots for a Successful Future and her ...
2016 Podcasts
The Pet Professional Guild BARKS Podcasts 2016
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The Podcast for December 4th with Victoria Stilwell and Janis Bradley
Victoria Stilwell was in the house to tell us why she stands firmly against BSL and believes it ...
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 boxes, they were well maintained, clean, and in quiet areas of the home. ...
“Did You Know Your Dog Barks All Day?”
By Julie Naismith
“Did you know that your dog barks all day?” my neighbour asked me one day. The simple answer was: no, I didn’t. It was this conversation that led me on the path to discovering my dog-ownership bombshell: that my dog Percy had separation anxiety.
I can vividly recall how ...
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 aromatherapy would help the dogs relax. Though it's a small study and, oddly the only one of its kind, it points to some additional ways that trainers and canine ...
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 peoples' and maybe our other dogs or previous dogs. ...
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 find a nice family dog to share her life with through ...
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 week. It's true that if we continued to treat our ...
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 re-introduced. In many cases, the best outcome we can hope for is for the cats to coexist ...