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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.

 

Labrador Tales continued…

| By Pam Koppe
Categories: Behavior & Training
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CHAPTER 4:  SHASTA, THERAPY DOG When the Flagstaff breeder brought out the litter of puppies, one of them ran right up to Vicki and Don.  “He was so sweet and gentle,” said Vicki.  “We knew he was the one for you.”  And so they brought him home to Sedona, where they were living at the …

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Penny and Georgie and Me

| By Neil Lurssen
Categories: Behavior & Training
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I have never had a cat of my own – a failure that I lament today.   People say it’s not too late, but it is unrealistic for me to adopt a cat now because my two dogs would never tolerate such a sin.  Cats and birds, especially turkey buzzards, are their unforgivable enemies.  They …

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Toy Crop Circles

| By Dawn Kovell
Categories: Behavior & Training
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Even a minor Sherlock Holmes talent would easily read the tableau walking into my cottage. The blanket artfully draped over my new, albeit already long suffering sectional sofa predicts the weather; recent rain as evidenced by muddy paw prints on the blanket. Living alone, my dogs on the furniture policy can only be described as …

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The Poop Blog

| By Neil Lurssen
Categories: Behavior & Training
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Dog people can and do argue about many things – but there is one thing about which we all agree:  we all share a deep disdain for those among us who are antisocial about poop.  It’s our responsibility.  Pick it up! I am referring here to those awful dog-walkers who don’t pick up on hillside …

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