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My Late Friend

My friend—my dead friend. One little word told you that. My friend. or My late friend. We may not think about it, but in seemingly the smallest way, words have huge importance. Remind yourself and others around you that you’re in one of two camps. You’re either: an...

Dog Socialization

Socialization? To most, it’s “taking dogs on field trips to stores and exposing them to as many, different environments as possible.” The theory is that by familiarization and desensitization, they’ll become relaxed and submissive, and will be able to...

Cold, Wet Noses and Sound Hypersensitivity

Cold, Wet Noses and Its Connection to a Dog’s Hypersensitivity to Sounds If your doodle reacts to every little sound around the house, I’ll challenge most of you to check their noses and mouths, and to think about Nature and how Nature has wild animals behave in...
Dogs and Wagging Tails

Dogs and Wagging Tails

Doodles and Tail Wagging What if “a wagging tail” confirms a dog’s high energy? What if a dog’s “high energy” is a bad thing? What if their high energies bring behavior problems? What about Nature’s wild animals all having high energy levels? Wagging...

How Do I Handle My One Year-old, Destructive Dog?

BNBR, wild animals are wild. That’s just common sense. Unrelated, yet related question: what’s your model for a dog’s being wild or not-wild? It’s not insignificant. If you don’t have a holistic model for how a dog can be, at any time, all through its life, then your...