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B&Tea — Our Training Blog

Dipping your toe in the water or already deeply immersed? If you can’t get enough, check out the Behavior & Training blog for fun stories on training triumphs and foibles, cat and dog foster challenges and happy endings along with general musings on living life well with animals.

 

Rant

| By Dawn Kovell
Categories: Behavior & Training
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Recently, Dawn and Kim found themselves on separate but equal rants about interacting with the world at large when out and about with our dogs. At the risk of putting out negative vibes we thought some of our readers might have similar experiences and feelings about it all, so without further ado here are a …

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Mistaken Identities

| By Neil Lurssen
Categories: Behavior & Training, Other
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Things don’t always work out the way you think they should – a situation that happens quite a lot when it involves dogs and cats.  It’s a lesson I and some friends have learned with a bit of pain followed by a few embarrassed giggles. My own lesson came when I was working in the …

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Grieving Your Beloved Pet

| By Kim Bromley
Categories: Behavior & Training
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Hardly a week goes by that I don’t learn of the loss of a friend, family member or neighbor’s beloved pet. And of course, there are the dreaded times in my own life when grief comes calling. Over the past several months in this blog we’ve written about many different species and experiences, and occasionally …

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Laughing with Your Dogs

| By Neil Lurssen
Categories: Behavior & Training
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Among the many burning questions we all ask ourselves often without getting firm answers are these:  Do dogs have a sense of humor?  Are they amused when funny things happen?  Are they actively trying to make us laugh when they perform their antics?  Or are their hijinks just snow jobs performed with ulterior motives to …

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