There are very few breeds for which a “walk” would actually translate into meaningful being considered as exercising a dog. You can get a sense of whether what you’re currently doing with your dog might qualify as exercise by checking your own heart rate. Find out what your own heart rate should be if you […]
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Great Smithsonian Magazine Article About Bomb Detection Dogs Read the entire article here: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ideas-innovations/The-Education-of-a-Bomb-Dog-213881241.html?c=y&story=fullstory#Bomb-Dogs-explosive-detection-canine-training-1.jpg
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Pickup Poop “In the worldwide battle to get dog owners to pickup poop, enter Brunete Spain, a middle-class suburb of Madrid fed up with dirty parks and sidewalks.” They seal it in a box and make the owner’s sign for a “Lost and Found” package. Watch the video below and read the article for more
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Police Dogs and Their Noses We talk about this in our Nosey Dogs classes. In this article; “There are calls for police sniffer dog operations to be stopped as fresh figures show the canines get it wrong in the majority of cases.” Personally, I don’t think it’s the dogs though, it’s amongst other things, sometimes
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This video is kind of funny but the message at the end seems to assume that bringing a second dog into the home is “good”. Sometimes yes, but it really can unpleasantly backfire. Two dogs is sometimes 3 times the work but more importantly it can trigger a wide range of behaviour problems. For the
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