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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.

 

Ranch Recalls

| By Dawn Kovell
Categories: Behavior & Training
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“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings This winter I moved from my adorable, extremely comfortable cottage in downtown Larkspur to live on …

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Was I Dreaming?

| By Kim Bromley
Categories: Behavior & Training
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By Sal Citarella As I lay in bed, I became aware of something warm and wet on my hand. Couldn’t be my wife; she was on the other side. Could the toilet have overflowed! I opened my eyes with a start and this is what I saw:                  …

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That’s a Dog!

| By Kim Bromley
Categories: Behavior & Training
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By Kecia Talbot It was my first thought when I saw her on the side of the road, and I immediately pulled over and stopped. She was in an odd place – two inches from the solid white line along the shoulder of northbound I-5 about a half-hour south of Bakersfield. She was lying upright …

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Cat Whispering

| By Kim Bromley
Categories: Behavior & Training
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This blog post is authored by Candace Key When I’m sitting in room 3 of Cat Adoptions, curled up like a pretzel in the smallest cat kennel, facing the window, talking to myself and slowly blinking my eyes, I must look a bit daft. From the hall, passersby can’t see the young cats that are …

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Old Dog Syndrome

| By Neil Lurssen
Categories: Behavior & Training
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After a lifetime of living with dogs, my wife and I thought we knew nearly everything that could turn into serious issues as they grew old. We thought we could recognize all the signs that the end was near – that awful moment that all pet guardians must face.  But we were wrong. A recent …

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