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    • How to Ease Your New Rescue Dog Into Your Home and Life

      Stability, routine, and a calm environment will help your new family member settle in. My husband and I fostered more than 400 dogs in need from central Texas shelters over the course of a decade. They gave me a lifetime’s worth of canine education, teaching me about the health and emotional needs of homeless dogs. In fact,…

    • Meet the Dog Zombie, Dr. Jessica Hekman

      Dr. Hekman is studying the brains of dogs to help us better understand the genomics of canine behavior. Have you heard? A dog zombie exists! Don’t worry, I’m not talking about an undead canine who craves brains, but about scientist Dr. Jessica Hekman, who studies dog brains and goes by the nickname The Dog Zombie. She is one…

    • How High-Spirited Toby, Returned to Rescue 20 Times, Got a Forever Home

       The rambunctious, intelligent terrier needed the right person and the right trainer. Here’s how we helped Toby. Sarah Stiles, director of A Soft Place to Land dog rescue, tossed and turned every night for two years, asking herself the same question: “What are we going to do about Toby?” Toby is a 6-year-old mischief-maker of a dog.…

    • Dogs and Wildlife Don’™t Mix

      This article first  appeared as a Colorado Parks & Wildlife Press Release on December 23, 2015. We live in a visual candyland here in Colorado, and dog owners love nothing more than getting out into the natural beauty with their dogs. What’™s wrong with that? On the surface, it’™s a great thing to get exercise for…

    • Dogs and Wildlife Don’t Mix

      This article first  appeared as a Colorado Parks & Wildlife Press Release on December 23, 2015. We live in a visual candyland here in Colorado, and dog owners love nothing more than getting out into the natural beauty with their dogs. What’s wrong with that? On the surface, it’s a great thing to get exercise for…

    • Are You Training a Puppy? Read ‘œThe Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog’

      Dr. Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz’s book is about traumatized children, but it offers valuable lessons that will help you raise a well-adjusted dog. It’™s hard to find books these days that keep me up until I have finished the last word. Perhaps I am too picky, as a writer myself? In any case, I have…

    • Are You Training a Puppy? Read “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog”

      Dr. Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz’s book is about traumatized children, but it offers valuable lessons that will help you raise a well-adjusted dog. It’s hard to find books these days that keep me up until I have finished the last word. Perhaps I am too picky, as a writer myself? In any case, I have…

    • How to Prepare Your Dog for Holiday Guests

      If your dog will be around holiday visitors, follow this advice from Dogster resident trainer Annie Phenix on acclimating him now. The holiday season is upon us — and by “us,” I mean both our human and our canine families. Dogs are affected by changes in their environments, and from October through the new year, dogs…

    • Ask the Trainer: How Can I Stop My Dog from Barking in the Car?

      If your dog barks her head off during rides in the car, you have two training options for keeping her calm and quiet. A client recently asked me this question: I love my sweet Doberman mix, but he has one annoying habit: He barks his head off in the car. Is here anything I can do…