By Lindsay Stordahl on May 1, 2008
Today was day one of my 30-day challengeto take my dog somewhere new every day. The goal of this challenge is to get Ace to learn to behave in new places, mostly to control his excitement levels. The challenge is also a way to continue working on heeling and basic obedience. For our first day, [...]
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog exercise, Dog training | Tagged Ace |
By Lindsay Stordahl on April 30, 2008
About a month and a half ago, I challenged myself and others to walk our dogs every day for 30 days. Thirty days is a reasonable amount of time to realistically do something every day. After those 30 days, it is easy for whatever I’m doing to become a habit. It’s a nice way to [...]
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog exercise, Dog training | Tagged Ace |
By Lindsay Stordahl on April 24, 2008
My mutt was walking off leash at the park with me last week. The back of the park borders some backyards, which is where we were walking when a toy poodle came bounding out from one of the yards. It left its yard and ran right up to Ace, barking. Ace was busy looking for a [...]
Posted in Dog behavior |
By Lindsay Stordahl on April 23, 2008
It is natural for dogs to love food and to scarf anything down in a matter of minutes. Recently, my dog Ace began showing less and less interest in his food. If your dog is the same way, don’t switch her food or add extra goodies to her meals. If your daughter doesn’t eat her [...]
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog food |
By Lindsay Stordahl on April 18, 2008
With all the hype about dangerous dogs and banning certain breeds, I decided to look closer at some statistics. I was curious as to which breeds were responsible for the most dog-bite related deaths. All the statistics I came across said roughly the same story: pit bulls and rottweilers are the most “dangerous” breeds, resulting [...]
Posted in Dog behavior |
By Lindsay Stordahl on April 17, 2008
My mutt has a few issues with acting overly excited. He cries in the car. He is obsessed with his tennis ball. He whines if we’re visiting someone’s house and he’s feeling nervous. If we visit his favorite parks, he drools excessively and starts looking for a stick immediately. If we visit my parents, all [...]
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog exercise |
By Lindsay Stordahl on April 15, 2008
A lack of exercise is the number one reason so many of our dogs have behavior problems. This is true with my own dog, and I see this with every dog I know. The dogs that get enough exercise are the “good” dogs. The rest are destructive, nervous, hyper or bored. It’s really that simple. [...]
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog exercise, Dog training, Reviews | Tagged Cesar Millan |
By Lindsay Stordahl on March 20, 2008
It does not surprise me that some dogs actually injure themselves from wagging their tail too hard. During my days working at a boarding kennel, a few dogs did this. A great dane named Simon actually came in with a pre-wrapped tail every time, just to prevent him from hurting his tail in advance. We called it happy [...]
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog health |
By Lindsay Stordahl on March 16, 2008
When dogs used for fighting are taken out of their abusive situations, they should be given a chance to live a normal life. According to CNN, 47 pit bulls were taken from property owned by Michael Vick. All the dogs went to animal rehabilitation centers. The hope is that with time, some of them will [...]
Posted in Animal humane issues, Dog adoption, Dog behavior |
By Lindsay Stordahl on March 13, 2008
Today was the second day of my experiment to walk Ace every day. Since it is really wet and muddy out, he did not get a chance to run today. His walk was his only exercise, so we went for two 20-minute walks, and he wore his dog backpack filled with some books. Ace practiced sitting [...]
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog exercise, Dog training |
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