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| Description | Pet podcast dedicated to dogs cats and humans. Marko, the Pets.ca administrator is the host of this pet show. | |
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| Language | en | |
| Collar Color Code needed? | ||
| Category | Pet blog posts, dog training | |
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| Description: | We are so tired of hearing stories about people who randomly approach other people?s dogs and assume they can pet them. The owners even ask them NOT to approach and the stranger does it anyway ? often saying ?oh, dogs love me, it’s okay?. Why does everyone think they have doggie magic and dogs won?t [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "Collar Color Code needed?", url: "http://pets.ca/blog/?p=422" } ); more... |
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| We are so tired of hearing stories about people who randomly approach other people?s dogs and assume they can pet them. The owners even ask them NOT to approach and the stranger does it anyway ? often saying ?oh, dogs love me, it’s okay?. Why does everyone think they have doggie magic and dogs won?t bite them? I remember being taught from a very young age NOT to pet someone else?s dog without permission. I even forgot that rule once and was promptly bitten ? lesson learned the hard way. So we have a solution? For those of you who have ridden horses in the show ring you are taught not to come behind a horse with a red ribbon on their tail because the horse will kick. If you do ride up on this horse and you are kicked then it is your fault because the message was clear and you ignored it. So if dogs were to wear color coded collars then the stranger would have a clear, universal sign about the dog?s temperament. Green collar means ?safe to approach?, yellow collar means ?in training, not predictable? and the red collar means ?DO NOT approach under any circumstances?. The biters could even wear a vest with lettering on it that says ?DO NOT APPROACH!!? I don?t know how long it will take for the world to catch on but something has to be done. Should we start a ?Collar Color Code Campaign?? What do you think? ShareThis | ||
| 56 (video) - How to give a pill to a dog | ||
| Category | Pet video podcast, how to give a pill to a dog, pilling dogs | |
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| Description: | Pet podcast #56 is our fourth video podcast with dog trainer and animal behaviourist Sherry Bedard. In this episode Sherry teaches us how to give a pill to a dog. Sherry demonstrates this technique on her dog Hailey and we get both the long shot and a close-up look at the technique. Sherry Bedard is an [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "56 (video) - How to give a pill to a dog", url: "http://pets.ca/blog/?p=413" } ); more... |
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| Pet podcast #56 is our fourth video podcast with dog trainer and animal behaviourist Sherry Bedard. In this episode Sherry teaches us how to give a pill to a dog. Sherry demonstrates this technique on her dog Hailey and we get both the long shot and a close-up look at the technique. Sherry Bedard is an animal behaviourist and trainer working in Montreal. She founded Animal instincts school in 2005 and she teaches people how to become dog trainers. She also consults on a 1-to-1 basis with dog owners that are having problems with their dog. Sherry also teaches canine and feline behavior to students in the adult education program at Vanier College and regularly volunteers her time and expertise at local animal shelters in Montreal. Related video - How to give a pill to a cat ShareThis | ||
| 55 (video) - How to give a pill to a cat | ||
| Category | Pet video podcast, dog training, pills to cats, Training | |
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| Description: | Pet podcast #55 is our third video podcast with dog trainer and animal behaviourist Sherry Bedard. In this episode Sherry teaches us how to give a pill to a cat WITHOUT causing it too much stress. Sherry demonstrates this technique on my cat Ziglet and we get both the long shot and a close-up look [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "55 (video) - How to give a pill to a cat", url: "http://pets.ca/blog/?p=408" } ); more... |
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| Pet podcast #55 is our third video podcast with dog trainer and animal behaviourist Sherry Bedard. In this episode Sherry teaches us how to give a pill to a cat WITHOUT causing it too much stress. Sherry demonstrates this technique on my cat Ziglet and we get both the long shot and a close-up look at the technique. Sherry also talks about how to give pills to cats that are feistier than 16 year old Ziglet. Sherry Bedard is an animal behaviourist and trainer working in Montreal. She founded Animal instincts school in 2005 and she teaches people how to become dog trainers. She also consults on a 1-to-1 basis with dog owners that are having problems with their dog. Sherry also teaches canine and feline behavior to students in the adult education program at Vanier College and regularly volunteers her time and expertise at local animal shelters in Montreal. Related video - How to give a pill to a dog ShareThis | ||
| 54 (video) - How to give treats to the family dog | ||
| Category | Pet podcast, Pet video podcast, dog training, Training | |
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| Description: | Pet podcast #54 is our second video podcast with dog trainer and animal behaviourist Sherry Bedard. In this episode Sherry and her dog Hailey teaches us (and OLDER children) how to give treats to the family dog. Although the technique is fairly basic, as always Sherry gives us extra information; this time it’s on food [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "54 (video) - How to give treats to the family dog", url: "http://pets.ca/blog/?p=400" } ); more... |
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| Pet podcast #54 is our second video podcast with dog trainer and animal behaviourist Sherry Bedard. In this episode Sherry and her dog Hailey teaches us (and OLDER children) how to give treats to the family dog. Although the technique is fairly basic, as always Sherry gives us extra information; this time it’s on food possession and the consequences of teasing your dog with food. Sherry Bedard is an animal behaviourist and trainer working in Montreal. She founded Animal instincts school in 2005 and she teaches people how to become dog trainers. She also consults on a 1-to-1 basis with dog owners that are having problems with their dog. Sherry also teaches canine and feline behavior to students in the adult education program at Vanier College and regularly volunteers her time and expertise at local animal shelters in Montreal. ShareThis | ||
| We all have to walk the walk sometimes | ||
| Category | Pet blog posts, dog aggression, Training | |
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| Description: | Today we want to talk about ?walking the talk?. Whenever I see an animal in need of a home I sidle up to Doug and sweetly flutter my eyelashes at him and beg ? ?but he?s so cute?, or ?no one else will take her, we have to.? I Give Doug a ton [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "We all have to walk the walk sometimes", url: "http://pets.ca/blog/?p=390" } ); more... |
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| Today we want to talk about ?walking the talk?. Whenever I see an animal in need of a home I sidle up to Doug and sweetly flutter my eyelashes at him and beg ? ?but he?s so cute?, or ?no one else will take her, we have to.? I Give Doug a ton of credit; he has turned me down on a daily basis for almost 25 years. But from the size of our menagerie he has also said ?yes? more times than he would like to admit. Last May when I was looking for a dog for a client at the local shelter I spied a young (2.5 yr) male Rottie. He wasn?t the right dog for the client, and he looked sick and was very skinny. But he had a special spark in his eye and we have missed having a Rottie in our lives for the last 7 years. I asked to take him out into the yard where he exhibited tons of energy (despite his pointy ribs) and didn?t seem too thrilled about the dogs that were walking past. He was full of himself to say the least - go figure, he hadn?t been trained, socialized or neutered ? what would you expect? The staff at the shelter were intimidated by him and didn?t quite know how to handle him. I immediately started to engage him and took charge of his attitude, and right away he paid attention and stopped acting like such a twit. Within minutes he was walking beside me on a loose leash. Long story short, the shelter basically said ?if you don?t take this dog we don?t know what?s going to happen to him?. Well, that was it; I called Doug and had him come right down to meet him. He agreed and we brought him home. Tsavo (his new name), came home to a pack of dogs, a pride of cats, a flock of birds and a small herd (okay 2) of horses. He was thrilled to be here and we were thrilled to have him. Things went beautifully ? he was easy to crate train, it took some effort but we got the vomiting and diarrhea to stop, he started to put on weight, he was great with all of the animals and his new best friend was our littlest Pomeranian. They are too cute to watch play together ? the Pom kicks his butt! About 5 months went by and we thought all was well. But in a short matter of days he attacked 2 of our dogs four times. If we had not pulled him off I don?t know what would have happened. He left them with multiple deep punctures on the neck, and one dog had a huge hematoma on the shoulders that took weeks to go down. Doug felt terrible that we had brought trouble into our home and caused pain to our beloved dogs. He looked at me and asked ?Do we really want to keep him? It?s not fair to our other dogs and he is too powerful to take a risk with. What do you want to do?? I felt terrible too but I knew that if WE couldn?t deal with him who could? We are the trainers, we are the ones people come to for help in these situations, and we are other people?s answer to euthanizing their own aggressive dogs. We had to be our own answer too. We could not take his good attitude for granted anymore. Doug did a lot of work taking him for long walks to stimulate him mentally and physically, but he is always so busy training other people?s dogs that I knew I had to step up to the plate as I had never done before. Because I had begged Doug for this dog - essentially I had brought the trouble home - I committed to making him my project. Our life together was going to be very different; Tsavo was going to be attached to me a lot of the time ? working his mind and controlling his emotions. It is always about balancing out a dog?s mental, emotional and physical well being in order to create a well balanced dog. We had to get him to think before he acted, to learn to calm down, to be patient, to learn to back away when he was feeling tense, to learn to check in with us before he made any moves, to remind him that it was not his place to discipline the other dogs, and to help the other dogs regain their trust in him. It had to work ? there was too much at stake. Now that we are on the other side of things I can say it has worked. Most importantly the other dogs are comfortable with him again. He can hold a down stay for hours if needed- even with chaos all around, he does nothing without looking to us for permission, he plays well, he can sit in a line of dogs all crammed against each other as I feed each one raw meat. He is happy again and we are too. Oh, and we use him for our trainings as a distraction, a companion or for introductions. This was truly a lesson in doing the very work we require of our clients. When your life is all about animals and you are lecturing everyone else on doing a better job it was like holding a mirror up and taking a long look. Our household is chaotic merely for the fact that we have so many different species living together. But in fact (despite the loud parrots) it is actually our own harmonious slice of heaven. We exist in veritable bliss surround by the fur, feathers and four-leggeds we adore. Each new addition can send a ripple effect into the harmony as the family re-adjusts itself to the new member. So work must be done to ensure that the ripple effect is short and not too noticeable. Tsavo brought a tsunami into the house. We had to work fast and hard to cover from its effects. We had to walk the walk we always tell others to walk. Elizabeth Simpson and her husband Doug have been running Tenderfoot Training in Boulder Colorado for over 30 years. They offer private training, do telephone consults and have an excellent DVD on their training method and technique. ShareThis | ||