I've got about half of my stuff moved, but all the furniture is still at the old place and will not be moved until Sun/Mon. Harriet and I have spent the last two nights at the new place, though. This is the first time I've slept on the floor since I was in college. It's both better and worse...

At Starbuck's this morning, my neighbor told me the following story. It seems a man her husband used to work with had a contentious divorce. This was they nasty kind where credit cards get run up; bad words are spoken; lawyers make money; each stays up nights figuring out new and creative ways to...

Would some of you share descriptions of your successes and failures? I need some new techniques. Feeling down today. Spent a week luring a stray closer, dropping treats, and found I couldn't face her, or she would run. Yesterday, she took a biscuit from behind my back. Today, the kibble I left...

Ok folks (AND MELINDA); I am a Computer Scientist... Yeah, that is correct. I understand HOWE to shut the HOWE down... and Melinda appears to HOWEPE that I do not. But I do. OooPhoweps.... But I do.

Several months ago, my coworker asked if I knew of a Beagle rescue in the area. Apparently a guy who worked in the same building as her husband just lost his Beagle. He was depressed, his Beagle was everything to him. My coworker's husband wanted us to find the man a new dog. I handed my coworker a...

I have a 1 1/2 year old male un-neutered Pekingese. I take him out to go #1 and he will go.I give him a treat. 5 minutes later, after we are playing inside, he decides to go #1 wherever he is. I scold him, take him outside, and then put him in his crate and it doesn't phase him. He has done this...

today, my friend pulled out this Life magazine from the 1970's. it had two adorable Shar Pei on the cover, and included an article about "rare" dog breeds. i found it pretty interesting. the dogs that were included were the Shar Pei, Neo Mastiff, Aussie, JRT, Loewchen (they called it the little...

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Since becoming a mom I figured that all the well-meaning, off-the-wall advice I would get would be directed towards child-rearing. Nooooo... I was chatting with another dog owner today, and mentioned how I have to do grid-search of the backyard for dog poo before letting the boys out since...

Hi, we got out Border Collie Puppy Tammy when she was 8 weeks old, and she is now 14 weeks old, and we have a few issues we'd like some advice on. During the day, she has a lovely temperament and is great with her training, and it does carry through at other tines but during the morning and...

Wondering how you survived Saturday night's storms. The radar showed some pretty wild looking storms - along with potential tornadoes - headed for Enfield. We had considered doing some camping that night in Erin - so glad we didn't. ~~Judy

Belinda says that she put my picture on her website. I can't see it from here, even if I refresh the page. Could you guys tell me if it's there (in my sig line) so I know if the problem is from my end or her end? :} It would be on the Training Staff page. Canine Action Dog...

For almost two whole days, we had 3 dogs in the house. Needless to say, the experience has been interesting. Guest dog Sebastian has been with us since Sunday, and Khan and he are getting along fine. Isabelle and Khan get wonderfully well, and she ignores Sebastian at the dog park, so I figured...

I have been on the internet for 11 years now and have received in my e-mail letters referring to making money. Like most of you, I have ignored them. A few weeks ago I decided to see what would happen if I participated, as I had heard quite good reports about this scheme over the last few years....

Hi NON-fellow "Dog trainers" Can you answer me this question? When a dog raises his hackles; what does it mean when: a) He only raises them on his shoulders? and b) He raises them down the entire length of his back.

i woke up at about 2am to a gawdawful racket in the bathroom. i assumed it was rory-cat and pandora playing bumper cats in the bath tub, so i put my pillow over my head and tried to ignore them. that lasted about 30 seconds before the noise started to drive me insane. i got up to tell them to...

May have posted awhile back about my mechanic getting two PB littermates. He's clueless, so I took them for worming and shots and began a little training. Called Monday to remind him not to feed them because I was taking them for spay and neuter the next day. He said they'd been stolen over the...

Hi Guys~ I am always thinking up ways to bring in more money, and walks are good of course. : ) Something we do here is have a Halloween Walk walk for all dogs adopted and anyone else that has a well behaved dogs and wants to come. You have to have you dog in costume,you too if you could, and...

Hi Guys, I'm sure this has been posted numerous times, but I really need some help here. My dog growls whenever you give him a bone and go near him... I realize this is their instinct, but I've been around dogs that don't demonstrate this behaviour. It's to the point where he will growl at you...

Hi, I would really appreciate any advice. This is the story: We have an 8 year old female Boerboel (South African breed; check http://www.boerboelsa.co.za/ for more info), an 8 month old male Boerboel & a 1 year old female lab. The female boerbul has been spayed, the lab came off her first heat...