Posted in General

I just watched this movie today. I had read the book about a year or so ago and was really looking forward to the movie. It was definitely a great adaptation, and I cried my eyes out at the end. I had such an urge to go up to our family dog Pepper, who is a week shy from turning 15 years old, and getting to be on her last legs. I give her a hug and… read more

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I owned Cockatiels when I was just a little kid, and my grandparents had parrots for 18+ years, but we always took our birds in to have their wings clipped, and nails trimmed. I think we were partly scared of doing something wrong, and never really had a hands-on demonstration of how it was done. When Sinbad got spooked off of her playstand … read more

Posted in Behavior & Training

I've been using a clicker with my dog since April 2008 with wonderful results. I can pretty much get Kadan to do just about anything (providing he's willing) by shaping and marking the behavior. Lately I've been looking around for articles on clicker training cats. My cat Tidus is very food motivated when it comes to stuff like chicken, ham, st… read more

Posted in Behavior & Training

It's amazing what some pieces of steak, a clicker, and food luring and achieve when training your dog. He had it down in about 15 minutes, after I figured out how to show him how to do it best. I kept messing up with the food lures. Gonna have to keep polishing this trick over the next few days. It's a little messy right now, and not f… read more

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I can't help but feel like I live in such a pet unfriendly town, especially as far as dogs are concerned. We have no dog parks, most of the dogs in my neighborhood are left outside all day (many chained up), I rarely EVER see ANYONE walking their dog, or taking them to the local parks, and there are so many loose and stray dogs running around the n… read more