Rocking Around the Christmas Tree

Check out these cool videos from a dog training group in Hungary. The group is nonprofessional, and is promoting a style of training they call Mirror Method, which is explained in the second video. The third video is dog day…

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Virtual Practice Group

Want more practice? Sign up for the virtual practice groups I will be offering each month. You need to have had a beginner class from me or someone to participate. If you have not had that we can do a…

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Good Question

I got an email from a woman who said she'd been skeptical about how all this works, but was becoming convinced of the accuracy when working with living animals. She could not understand, however, how one could prove an intuitive connection…

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Never ceases to amaze….

You'd think the glamour might have worn off by now, but I am always amazed when I talk with an animal as if talking with a person and the animal responds in a way that demonstrates complete comprehension. It's pure magic and anyone can…

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Stupid Pet Tricks

I killed my cable years ago so I have no clue what's on TV anymore. It looks like David Letterman is doing Stupid Pet Tricks again. YAY! I found this clip on HuffingtonPost.com. So first, you can't tell me guys…

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Winning with Intuition

I just worked with a woman and her dog on a behavioral issue. The dog was running lure races but instead of going for the lure was jumping on the dog who was running next to her. I talked to…

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About the Goat

Here are Dianne’s responses to what people got from Giacomo: I was looking for "likes his ears rubbed" but this is true...he gets an itchy spot between his horns, and I've seen him scratching it himself using a blackberry bramble,…

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I got some chickens….

And I thought they would be so fun to have and easy to take care of. I had no idea. First I couldn't get them to eat. Then they wouldn't come off the nests, not to drink, eat, nothing. I'd take…

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Your Questions

A reader, Dianne, sent in this question: You asked for topic suggestions, and I have one. It's been my experience as someone who can communicate with animals, that animals seem unusually drawn to me. I'd be interested to learn if…

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Re Vick

No one seems convinced that Michael Vick is either reformed or contrite. Most people who wrote in on the subject felt that his activities in support of dogs are just so much window dressing. I am very much inclined to…

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