My husband came down with a cold while we were in Minnesota over Christmas. He's feeling better now, but still dealing with the lingering effects. I thought I had dodged that bullet, when just last night my nose started to run and my head started to hurt. I felt miserable all night and got very [...]
The new year is a time when many people make New Years Resolutions to exercise more, lose weight, or do other things they want to accomplish to make improvements in their lives. Whether or not you are a regular resolution maker, now might be a good time to make a resolution regarding your dog. Is [...]
Picture this. . . It's Christmas Eve (2010) in Minnesota. Ed and I have Jahzara, our Greyhound, and Romeo, our Vizsla, settled in at my parents' house. It's cold outside, there's a lot of snow on the ground, and their yard is not fenced in. This means very little opportunity for Romeo to burn off [...]
Romeo was not a natural retriever when he was young. He liked to take things and run off with them, but his natural inclination was never to bring things to me. I knew I wanted a dog who would retrieve for me, even if it wasn't one of his favorite games to play. So I [...]
In a prior post, I quoted Murray Sidman's Coercion and Its Fallout on the effects of punishment. I want to continue with some of the points in his book, namely the potential side effects of the use of punishment. As I mentioned before, this book is about human behavior, not about dogs. However, since we [...]
