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Showing posts with label dog behavior. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dog behavior. Show all posts
Saturday, July 14, 2012

Making Lemonade

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I partner with English shepherds in my work.  I breed and raise them to be as intelligent as possible -- no prudent stops on cognition, desi...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Base Seven

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One of the gospels of dog breeders who make a good-faith effort to do right by their puppies is the popular " Rule of Sevens ." No...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Bye Bye Baby(hood)

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With the appearance of all their tiny peepers over the weekend, the Roseannadannas are officially no longer neonates. They've now ent...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Brain Breakfast

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Old wive's white-coats' tale -- you can't teach a puppy anything before his eyes open. No less a pair of authorities than Scott...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

"Lack of Any Useful Purpose"

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The use of rubber hands and creepy dead-eyed dolls and other witchdoctory in the process of "temperament testing" dogs in pounds a...
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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Take Two, They’re Small

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It was a great compliment to a newly-minted dog handler to be asked by my training mentor to evaluate a litter of puppies to identify the se...
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Word for Puppy is Blue Bear

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When Hope and the four Indiana Plague Puppies first arrived, Cole did not know what to do with them. Well, Hope was no problem. They said ...
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Friday, November 19, 2010

Twitterpated

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What? Walt Disney got the biology of critters wrong ? Say it ain't so! Spring is not the season of twitterpated. At least it isn...
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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Gestalt

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A conversation is not the sum of its syllables. Rottweiler owners are fond of telling those who (they presume) don't know the breed th...
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Friday, June 25, 2010

Photo Phriday: Aerial Invader

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Our neighbor swears that the first hundred feet of airspace is ours. We are regularly invaded in the summer by this commercial endeavor Scen...
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Oh, does that matter?

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From the Toronto City News : It's usually the perfect combination - a loving youngster and a gentle dog. But som...
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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Snapshot Sunday: Oh. This Again.

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One of the things that is so cool about Pip is her ho-hum attitude towards most of the strange things to which we subject her. She knows ...
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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Photo Phriday: Installation or Editorial?

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This afternoon I took Cole and Jasmine out on some errands. An unknown dog or dogs had an upset tummy* in my office this morning, and the we...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

I Lied

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In this post , I laxed wyrical about young Cole's quick discovery that human children were super-kewl, even though he had never seen one...
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Friday, November 27, 2009

Kick Me

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The turkeys have been bullying Sophia. She's the largest dog here. She's the only one who has ever seriously injured another animal...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Consent and Compulsion

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Please do not click on the photo link of Barry White in the second paragraph unless you are sure you want to see it. If you are easily upse...
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