Month: April 2020

The Meet Cute Whether you’ve been planning for months, or you have an impulse puppy, you will remember one moment forever- the time your puppy first meets your problem dog. The most successful way to do the introduction strongly depends

How to Prepare Your Older Dog Your thoughts may be over-taken by images of your new fluff ball (I know mine were), but if you have an anti-social pup already at home, there’s no such thing as beginning too early

Many behaviour professionals have been offering online/virtual consulting options for years, but with the current pandemic, the vast majority of consultants are abiding by physical distancing safety recommendations, and are not seeing clients or their dogs in person at all.

In early 2016, our family lost our 12.5 year old German Shepherd mix, and left us with only one dog – Marlo, a then 8 year old pit bull mix. While he had always lived with other dogs, he struggled

Note: I originally wrote this article in 2017, and it appeared in a Newsletter by the Vancouver Island Animal Training Association. I also want to update that there’s a new, very exciting book available on this topic – Wag: The