Canine Behavioral Specialists and Dog Training

04/18/2025

FLORIDA PEEPS!!!

04/17/2025

04/17/2025

Dogs are so stinkin’ great!

04/12/2025

It’s that time of year. Remember, when it’s 75 outside, it’ll be 109 inside your car within 30 minutes, even with the windows cracked. “Intent doesn’t change the outcome.” If you have to go to a store, leave your dog at home.

It's a perfect Colorado day. The sun is shining, it's 75 degrees, and that fresh mountain air is practically begging you to get outside.

Your dog's just as excited as you are. He's already spinning in circles, tail wagging, ready to hit the road.

You grab his leash, toss your backpack in the car, crack the windows, and head out for a day of adventure. But ten minutes down the road, your stomach growls. You forgot water and snacks, you silly goose! No big deal; you'll stop at the grocery store real quick. Five minutes, tops.

Your dog gives you those big, trusting eyes as you park. He's panting lightly, his goofy tongue hanging out, happy to be along for the ride. You crack the windows a little bit more and tell him you'll be right back.

Inside the store, things take longer than expected. They moved the water to a different aisle. You debate which snacks you want. You bump into your chatty neighbor who has to tell you every tedious detail of her niece's soccer game. Then the checkout line is longer than you thought.

By the time you walk back outside, the sun is higher. The warm breeze hits your face, and suddenly, you panic. You check your watch.

It's been over 30 minutes.

You walk faster. Jog.
You reach your car and your heart drops.
Your dog isn't sitting up.
He's lying down.
He's not wagging his tail.

It happens that fast.

Even at just 75 degrees outside, the inside of your car can hit over 109 degrees in just 30 minutes. Dogs have a hard time cooling down, and high temperatures can lead to fever, organ failure, brain damage, or even death.

Most people don't leave their pets in hot cars with bad intentions. They truly believe they'll just be a minute. But cars trap heat quickly, cracking a window doesn't help, and intent doesn't change the outcome.

Animal Law Enforcement sees this every year:
Dogs in distress.
Dogs unconscious.
Dogs gone. Because their humans didn't realize the danger

Even without bad intentions, leaving a dog in a hot car is considered criminally negligent and can lead to animal cruelty charges.

So, if you love your dog, your hiking buddy, your co-pilot, your best friend, don't take them unless they can stay with you the whole time. If they'll need to wait in the car, even briefly, leave them at home.

If you see a dog in a hot car:
📞 Call Animal Law Enforcement at 719-302-8798 or your local police dispatch.
🚨 If the dog is in distress or unconscious, call 911 immediately.

Please share this. One small reminder can save a life.

04/11/2025

Today is National Pet Day and in honor of pets everywhere, here are my puppers! Let’s see yours! (Don’t mind the teeth on the yellow Lab. He was smiling.)

04/10/2025

04/09/2025

Have I already shared this? If so, it deserves another share. If not, here you go!

04/05/2025

I am a 21st century dog….
-I'm a Malinois.
Overskilled among dogs, I excel in all disciplines and I'm always ready to work: I NEED to work.
But nowadays I get asked to chill on the couch all day everyday.

-I am an Akita Inu.
My ancestors were selected for fighting bears.
Today I get asked to be tolerant and I get scolded for my reactivity when another approaches me.

-I am a Beagle.
When I chase my prey, I raise my voice so the hunters could follow.
Today they put an electric collar on me to shut up, and you make me come back to you - no running - with a snap of your fingers.

-I am a Yorkshire Terrier.
I was a terrifying rat hunter in English mines.
Today they think I can't use my legs and they always hold me in their arms.

-I'm a Labrador Retriever.
My vision of happiness is a dive into a pond to bring back the duck he shot to my master.
Today you forget I'm a walking, running, swimming dog; as a result I'm fat, made to stay indoors, and to babysit.

-I am a Jack Russell.
I can take on a fox, a mean badger, and a rat bigger than me in his den.
Today I get scolded for my character and high energy, and forced to turn into a quiet living room dog.

-I am a Siberian Husky.
Experienced the great, wide open spaces of Northern Europe, where I could drag sleds for long distances at impressive speeds.
Today I only have the walls of the house or small garden as a horizon, and the holes I dig in the ground just to release energy and frustration, trying to stay sane.

-I am a border collie
I was made to work hours a day in partnershipwith my master, and I am an unmistakable artist of working with the herd.
Today they are mad at me because, for lack of sheep, I try to check bikes, cars, children in the house and everything in motion.
I am ...
I am a 21st century dog.

I'm pretty, I'm alert, I'm obedient, I stay in a bag...but I'm also an individual who, from centuries of training, needs to express my instincts, and I am *not* suited for the sedentary life you'd want me to lead.

Spending eight hours a day alone in the house or in the garden - with no work and no one to play or run with, seeing you for a short time in the evening when you get home, and only getting a small toilet walk will make me deeply unhappy.

I'll express it by barking all day, turning your yard into a minefield, doing my needs indoors, being unmanageable the rare times I'll find myself outside, and sometimes spending my days sunk, sad, lonely, and depressed, on my pillow.

You may think that I should be happy to be able to enjoy all this comfort while you go to work, but actually I’ll be exhausted and frustrated, because this is absolutely NOT what I'm meant to do, or what I need to be doing.
If you love me, if you've always dreamed of me, if my beautiful blue eyes or my athletic look make you want me, but you can't give me a real dog's life, a life that's really worth living according to my breed, and if you can't offer me the job that my genes are asking, DO NOT buy or adopt me!

If you like the way I look but aren't willing to accept my temperament, gifts, and traits derived from long genetic selection, and you think you can change them with only your good will, then DO NOT BUY OR ADOPT ME.

I’m a dog from the 21st century, yes, but deep inside me, the one who fought, the one who hunted, the one who pulled sleds, the one who guided and protected a herd still lives within.

So think **very** carefully before you choose your dog. And think about getting two, rather than one, so I won't be so very lonely waiting for you all day. Eight or ten hours is just a workday to you, but it's an eternity for me to be alone.

Written by *unknown*

03/17/2025

PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, DELAWARE PEEPS!!!