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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.

 

The Cat, The Rat and the Girl

| By Dawn Kovell
Categories: Behavior & Training
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Socially responsible pet guardianship can be difficult. Dogs? On-leash or off-leash? Do you really have voice control? Or did you take one series of beginning dog training and call it a wrap? Cats? Indoors or outdoors? “Catios” or cat proof fencing? This is just a short example of choices pet guardians make that impact other …

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Some Of My Friends Are Rats

| By Neil Lurssen
Categories: Behavior & Training
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I never thought of rats as cuddly pets until I arrived at Marin Humane as a rookie volunteer.  My aim was to be a Dog Pet Pal doing my bit for pooches in need under the direction of the busy shelter staff.   But when you hang out with animal-care professionals for more than a …

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The Dog with a Big Heart – Saving Baby Rhinos

| By Neil Lurssen
Categories: Behavior & Training
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A skilled trainer can teach a dog many things – agility tricks, how to detect drugs and explosives, how to track missing and injured victims when disasters occur.  But kindness and compassion cannot be taught.  Those rare qualities must come from a dog’s heart.  This is a story of a dog with a heart like …

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My Life as an ACT

| By Susie Harper
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Many years ago I started my Marin Humane journey as a volunteer adoption counselor, but when an opening came up for an Animal Care Technician position, I jumped on the application.  I was always so impressed watching the ACTs. They walked around in their Wellington boots  (for cleaning), they administered meds, and they were very …

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