Teaching Manners, Behaviors, and Relationships
Lisa J. Edwards discusses the primary message of A Dog Named Boo, due for publication in October 2012 by Harlequin Nonfiction.
As part of the lead-up to the October publication of A Dog Named Boo, we were asked to put together this short video for Amazon discussing the book’s primary message.
Please enjoy and please remember to share!
Dog walk in Central Park juxtapositions the mundane and the macabre.
My morning walk with Pax’e usually takes us from Central Park West at Ninety Seventh Street across the park to Ninety Seventh Street and Fifth Avenue.
It didn’t come as a surprise that Mt. Sinai was setting up hospital tents in the park just north of Ninety Seventh Street at Fifth Avenue. But like anything we think we are prepared for, sometimes when we actually see it, we realize we are not.
Pax’s poses for her picture while the hospital tents go up behind her.
You could almost miss them as you look at the cute dog in the foreground.
I wonder if she feels the tension, too?
Teaching your dog the rules of tug and setting up boundaries helps control their natural tugging behavior and gives you both what you want.
Ask Professor Boo is our recurring, positive reinforcement dog training and behavior question and answer column. If there’s a question that you would like to ask Professor Boo, please feel free to contact him.
Just what is it tug? In short, you’re seeing a social manifestation of millions of years of their evolution.
As canids evolved and their hunting techniques developed to allow the hunting of larger prey. As a result, tug offered a solution to new issues:
At some point one canine grabbed one end of a kill and another canine grabbed the other end and tug was born. What started as a solution to communal hunting and eating became what we see today in dogs as the game of tug.
If your dog is a tugger, you will be shocked to see how quickly he/she will learn the rules. Tug is of such high value to most dogs that the game itself becomes a reward for other great behaviors.
Good luck, let me know how it goes, and stay positive!
Recently I was able to wrangle three Golden Retriever puppies to compare and contrast their differing colors.
For some time, I have noticed Golden Retrievers are turning up in some very different colors.
Until now I have not had all three colors in the same class.
However, in a recent Basic class I was able to wrangle three Golden Retriever puppies to compare and contrast their differing colors.
Notice (from left to right) Tucker-the-Cream, Redgie-the-Red, and of course Willow-the-Golden.
My question is, in the future will we be looking at a true color split in this breed like we see with Labs? Will we be making similar designations for Goldens just like we do for Labs?
We will probably have to wait a decade or two before we know how this is going to turn out.
But in the meantime, here is some three-colored Golden-puppy play.
Enjoy!
Patience, persistence, and and accepting that perfect isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be are the bedrock of compassionate dog training.
As part of the festivities surrounding A Dog Named Boo, I put together a guest blog post for my friends over at Dogster.
It’s about what I call The Three P’s of Dog Training: patience, persistence, and perfect-is-not-all-it’s-cracked-up-to-be and how they can help in your training.
Head on over and check it out!
Here’s a link!
