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When Your Pooch’s Bed Is Fit For A Palace 

By |2025-07-31T14:48:55-07:00July 31, 2025|Behavior & Training|

                Dog Palaces is a delightful picture book by Brian Coleman with photographs by Dan Mayers. Pet stores offer us a multitude of beds and kennels for our canine best buddies and most of the beds work pretty well - big ones, small ones, furry ones, soft ones, ones with built-in pillows, even rubbery ones that can be filled with air from a bicycle pump.  Some of our pets - quite a few in fact, according to the experts - don't actually need their own beds because they share ours.  Maybe [...]

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Saving Sally; How a Drone, a Machete, the Internet – and Neighbors – Saved Our Dog

By |2025-05-13T14:36:20-07:00May 13, 2025|Behavior & Training|

Our Sally is 17 years old now - not a bad achievement for any dog. She has her share of senior issues and she sleeps most of the time. But she still enjoys life in her way and she is always more than ready for chicken treats.  We have accepted that her time is almost up and we believe she will tell us when. One recent night that time nearly arrived before it was due – and in the worst possible way.  My story today is about how our neighborhood - strangers and friends, first responders, [...]

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Can Dogs See Better In the Dark Than Humans?

By |2025-01-31T15:32:09-08:00January 30, 2025|Behavior & Training|

By Neil Lurssen When my wife Jean and I rented an isolated beach cottage for a long weekend getaway, our two black Labrador Retrievers – Jack and Nova – came along too. When I say isolated, I mean like finding yourself alone in a dungeon under the Tower of London, guest of Henry VIII. There was nobody else there on the miles-long beach. Just the two of us and the pooches. The first night was as dark as I have ever seen; no moon and high clouds hiding the stars. You needed a GPS to see [...]

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HEY!  CUT IT OUT! Adventures with Jack the Lab

By |2024-09-24T19:35:38-07:00September 23, 2024|Behavior & Training|

By Neil Lurssen I have adored all my dogs. Most were gentle souls and easy-going pals. One or two were maybe not so gentle. One who got me into more red-faced situations by far was Jack, my big black Lab – a free spirit and rebellious character still remembered with affection, head-shaking and some awe by our family and old friends even though he left us many years ago. Jack was very unlablike. I should have realized that Jack would be different on the day we chose him from a weeks-old litter of identical little black [...]

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RHYTHM AND BLUES – DOGGIE STYLE

By |2024-06-25T10:29:51-07:00June 25, 2024|Behavior & Training|

Let's GO, Neil! By Neil Lurssen It is 2:22pm as I sit at my desk to write this blog. I know have about 38 uninterrupted minutes to gather my thoughts, flip through notes and then start typing. At 3pm – or thereabouts – orderliness will end and tranquility will be replaced by frantic barking, ferocious growling and me yelling bugger off as my jeans are being tugged at by Chloe, the Dachshund/Aussie mix. When I get her off my pants she attacks my sneakers. Sally, also a pure-bred shelter mutt, joins in with her [...]

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