Cows Jump For Joy

It’s hard to watch this without wondering. Just because we have the upper hand in the way things are run on this planet and just because they don’t, is it really appropriate how we treat them and use them for our benefit? There’s more to cows than meat, milk, and leather. Apparently, they love life as much as we do.   By Helen Verte Positive Dog Trainer in Broward County Fort Lauderdale

Equal and Appropriate Pay or Else

Here’s an amusing, but telling video, on how animals distinguish equal pay for equal work.  In this case, capuchin monkeys. Keep in mind, that we are told that the same experiment was done with other animals besides the monkeys, including dogs. I am assuming the same results were produced. This leads me to conclude that, if we have and are working with multiple dogs, we should reward them with equal pay for equal work. Otherwise we may hear from their {Read More}

Watch Dogs

I was feeling guilty that I let my dog watch-dog bark at the mail carrier’s daily deliveries.  But frankly, I’d come home before when I had a shield on the inner door over the mail slot and found that it had been crashed through and the ex-pen I’d once kept around it had been slammed into the door.  This suggested someone, who was not a mailman, had tried to force his way in.  Thank goodness for my watch doggies, though. {Read More}

Dogs’ Body Language In Santa Photos

When taking your dog for Santa photos be careful and observant. The white beard and funny red hat can be scary to many dogs. Unless you or Santa are savvy at reading dog body language, your dog may be put into a position where he feels backed into a corner, and may strike out with his only defense, his teeth. Reading a dog’s stress signals does take some education and practice. Let’s face it, humans and dogs have very different {Read More}

Dogs Please Whom?

What’s in it for me? Don’t you find yourself thinking this thought when you are asked to do something? My mind automatically starts searching for something to motivate me into doing something that I may not normally want to do. I paved about two-thirds of my back yard with twelve-inch by twelve-inch pavers over a six-month period one year. The reason was that my back yard is full of rocks under shallow ground. Not good for the dogs’ paws. That {Read More}