Well, how fun was that? Last weekend I was at the “Im-PECK-able Training Seminar” put on by Craig Schultz and Sally Dickinson for the K9 Behavior Consortium ...

  I know. Really, I do. There are many downsides to the commercialization of the winter holiday season. We all know that they are-too focused on material ...

Chew bones and tasty snacks are nice, but here is what I think our dogs really want for Christmas: 1. CLARITY: Our dogs are living with aliens–us. They may ...

First, and most importantly, HAPPY NEW YEAR! Of course, we all know, it’s really just another day, the “year” concept being an arbitrary construction of our ...

  Continuing my ability to relate just about everything in the world to dog training, I offer you some thoughts about how good editing is like good dog ...

I just read a fascinating article in the Royal Society Open Journal  finding that dark-eyed dogs were rated friendlier and less mature than light-eyed dogs ...

We’re just back from a week in Jamaica. Good to go, good to be home. Usually winter trips around here are motivated by a desire to escape the cold. Not this ...

                  I don’t pretend to be able to keep up with all the dog/animal behavior books being published right now, but two books got my attention ...

Last week a dear friend brought her teenage Bernedoodle, Leo, over to meet Skip and Maggie. Leo was like Sheldon at a Comic Con Convention (can you tell ...

I recently had a great talk with Emily Priestley, the author of Urban Sheepdogs. I reviewed her book a few weeks ago, and although I noted some issues, I am ...

Skip ran in our first trial last weekend, and while watching the video to figure out how the heck he got a shed (the only really good one of the trial), I ...