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This will be my last blog for Purely Puppy. I am moving on from here to a guest spot every other Friday on Fully Vetted. My draw to this blog was to spread the good word of behavioral medicine. To stand at the pulpit each week and preach that you don’t have to dominate your dog to get him to respect... READ MOREThis week, I saw a post on Facebook that bugged me. The person posted, "Train the owner, not the dog." This is a commonly used phrase in dog training circles. While I agree that this can be the case with dogs who are unruly — that the owner is a lot of the problem — it most often... READ MOREThis week, as we focus on preparing for Spring and prevention of parasites, we are running one of our favorite Dr. Radosta columns on the topic of worms. It was originally posted in December of 2011 under the title "Ewww ... Worms, Part 2."
Dr. Radosta will return next week with an... READ MORE“You can’t run these trails!” yelled an older man as I ran by him on Sunday morning. I was running the same trail that I run every Sunday morning.
On this particular Sunday morning, a small bike race was taking place on the trail. Surprised by the man’s outburst, I stopped... READ MOREPeyton is a six month old, blond Cocker Spaniel who came to see me for growling at the children in his family. He had snapped at them, but so far had not bitten.
In the exam room, he was exuberant and friendly with adults, but I could tell that the children made him uncomfortable because when they... READ MOREThis weekend I ran my first ½ marathon trail run. It was 14.25 miles, to be exact. My husband had coached me and I was confident about my ability to finish. I was prepared and didn’t at all feel nervous, but my body disagreed. My stomach was all a-flutter and, well, let’s just say... READ MOREWe went to see Totem, the latest Cirque Du Soleil masterpiece, the other day. We arrived a bit early, so there were empty seats around us. When the couple who was sitting next to us arrived and the gentleman sat down, he was just too close for comfort. If I sat normally in my chair, his entire arm was... READ MOREThe other day, I was chatting with one of my clients who is involved with the Big Dog Ranch Rescue in Royal Palm Beach, Florida. She recounted an amazing story of Black Jack, a German Shepherd Dog who was stolen from his owner, used as bait for a fighting dog ring and then miraculously found by a person... READ MORELast week, a reader posed the question, how can you help a puppy “that has had a traumatic experience during a fear imprint stage?”
It will depend on the puppy’s genetic predispositions and how traumatic the event was from the puppy’s perspective. My impression from my clinical... READ MOREEarlier today, I was sitting with the cutest, 1-year-old Maltese named Baby. Her owner had brought her to see me because she bites strangers. She was hovering under her owner’s legs with her tail tucked, and panting as if she had run a marathon even though it was perfectly cool in the exam room.
The... READ MORE
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