Dedicated to placing animals in loving homes, thus reducing euthansia.
Our Lessons in Kindness education program offers classroom presentations on kind and responsible treatment of animals. Tours of our adoption center are provided to students and a variety of service learning projects make learning about the animals fun.
The Power of Breath (Feb 24th)
Let’s take a whole new spin on dog training. I have been noticing more and more about how our emotions and energy affect how our dogs respond to us. Our emotions affect how fast your dog will learn! Wow…fascinating. Most of you may know this already as it is not [...]
Previous Weekly Tips
Reading Dog Behavior Week 4 (Feb 17th)
This is the last week on the series of “Reading Dog Behavior.” I hope it has been helpful for you. This week I wanted to target other stress signs that your dog may show when he is out of alignment. These stress signs can be a result [...]
Reading Dog Behavior Week 3 (Feb 10th)
This week I am going to focus on calming signals. Calming signals are signs that your dog demonstrates when he starting to get stressed and is wanting to calm himself down. If you see many calming signals then you know that your dog is pretty stressed. Remember that any [...]
Reading Dog Behavior Week 2 (Feb 3)
Last week I gave some tips on determining if your dog is feeling fear (defensive behavior). This week I am going to focus on offensive behavior. Offensive behavior is when the dog wants to move forward and is generally more likely to want to attack immediately. Generally when a [...]
Reading Dog Behavior (Jan 27th)
Realizing what a learning curve it was for me to become really good at reading behavior, I thought it would be beneficial to write consecutive tips on how to read your dog. Throughout the next few e-mails you will learn what your dog looks like when aroused verses being relaxed.
Today I [...]
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