The other evening, we happened to catch a PBS program called Through a Dog’s Eyes. It’s the story of Jennifer Arnold and others, who have overcome an amazing number of obstacles to found and run a place outside of Atlanta called Canine Assistants (link to its website).

There, Jennifer Arnold, her brother, her veterinarian husband, and numerous other workers and volunteers train Golden Retrievers and Labrador Retrievers to be service and seizure response dogs for people–both kids and adults–with a wide variety of  challenges. Read the rest of this entry

I have written about Dog Star Daily before, and no doubt I will do it again, and again! It is my favorite dog training website, so I thought it was worth another shout out. Today I am going to tell you about the podcasts. These are mp3 files which you can listen to on your computer or download and put on your iPod or similar device. Then you can learn more about dog training — and be entertained — while you go out walking with your dog!

Dr. Ian Dunbar is a veterinarian and one of the main people to get the positive dog training movement started.( I’ve written more about Ian Dunbar here.) A few years ago, he and his wife, dog trainer Kelly Dunbar, started Dog Star Daily as a place to be a major information resource for dog training. There are now blogs from numerous positive trainers. Great reading. Read the rest of this entry

I have to say that I have had many problems over the years with dogs, but never has one of my dogs tried to pee on the tree. But just in case you have this problem, I just happened to notice a list  of tips  over at Dogster.

I sure don’t have to worry about it this year. Our tree is on top of Lola’s crate. She’s a Rottweiler so you can imagine the height of the crate! Now the cats may climb up and play around a bit… oh well!

RSS doesn’t stand for Really Scrumptious Snacks, though it’s always a good idea to use them in training. RSS is an internet term, usually described as a shortcut for Really Simple Syndication. But this is a dog training blog, so why am I talking about this?

By using RSS and an online reader – I’ll be demonstrating with Google Reader, my favorite – you can keep up to date way more easily with your favorite online blogs, for dog training or whatever else interests you. In this article, first I  will try to entice you into wanting to use RSS and then I’ll tell you how.

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