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08/07/2025

Great reminder from the NWS in relation to Pet Weather Preparedness during our summertime heat. Be weather aware and remember that preparedness is our best defense!!

Let's hear it for our pets! 🐶🐱 Temperatures and humidity will be on the rise through the week, so when taking heat-related safety precautions for yourself while spending time outdoors, be sure to do the same for your furry friends!

06/07/2025

This is why I despise harnesses for walking or training dogs. They’re cruel.

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This is a repost(ish) but well worth repeating. Many of you have heard me harp on harness fit time and again. Having spent decades evaluating harness fit in working dogs of all types with thermal imaging (as well as having years of working and active dog experience combined with a strong biomechanics knowledge base) using front-clipping or "Gentle Leader" type harnesses only guarantee more structural stress in active dogs that makes for more work for me and other chiro/sports med colleagues. PLEASE only use harnesses that fit with proper ergonomics! [NOTE: I've tweaked the English & syntax in the added-on description below so it might read a little differently.]

"All dog owners should know this fact! A harness like this is a terrible injustice to your pet!! AVOID USING THIS TYPE OF HARNESS !

In a dog's forward movement, a harness with a tape that crosses its chest from side to side hinders it in the same way humans would bother going hiking with an elastic band holding their arms. Physiological movement of the front extremity is prohibited. Just like rubber would inhibit the pendular movement of our ARMS.

Thanks to the "Study of Canine Movement at the University of Jena", we now know that in the dog, the center of rotation of the front limb is at the top of the scapula, but in the human the center of rotation in the arm is in the shoulder. Jena's study demonstrates, among other things, the importance of scapular movement for dog locomotion. Now we understand the importance of taking into account the free movement of the dog's shoulder when choosing a chest harness.
That means there SHOULDN'T be bands across the scapular (orange) area, and they shouldn't cross the chest side to side either.

From the point of view of biomechanics and physiotherapy, it is recommended not to choose getting harnesses that have a strap that goes through the chest laterally, or that have straps that touch or press the scapula.

Always lean towards harness models with ERGONOMIC design, to allow maximum freedom of movement for your dog, improve his well-being and safety during his walk.
Source : REAL CEPPA"

02/07/2025

I prefer people secure them in crates in a room away from the chaos. That way they don’t escape or bite, and they don’t get pancreatitis from all of the foods guests will inevitably give them.

15/06/2025

It’s important to start training puppies as soon as you get them.

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12/06/2025

Progress reports are something I look forward to. This dog was absolutely NOT going to let us do his nails. Now he walks nicely on a leash, understands and obeys basic commands, and is a good boy after all. Please watch the video In the comments.

01/06/2025

I heartily recommended snake aversion training before I even knew how much treatment for a snake bite costs. One of my client’s dogs is at SaVES in Fayetteville and the bill is $2300 to start.

Snake aversion training with Jason Clark of Southeastern Reptile Rescue is only $60, and well worth it.

https://www.snakesareus.com/snake_aversion_training Southeastern Reptile Rescue - Snake School for Dogs

Snake Aversion Training for Dogs. Helping dogs to recognize and avoid snakes by scent and sight.

29/05/2025

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24/05/2025

Copy and pasted... I agree! All dogs are different; some don't need aversive, but those that do are not bad dogs, they aren't genetically flawed, and there are more options than medication and/or euthanasia. I have two kids, each was rewarded and corrected differently. (If you know my kids, you know a new book for one - was extremely rewarding, the other child would have considered it a punishment!) I have seven dogs, all of whom are rewarded and corrected differently. We must teach that there are consequences for decisions/actions. We reap what we sow.

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Thought it was worth the share.
Jonas Black

Yesterday at 9:41 AM ·
This year I will be publishing a book one that’s been needed. I won’t charge a penny. here’s an excerpt.
1. A Lie Wrapped in a Treat Bag
The force-free cult sold dog owners a fantasy—a utopia where all behavior could be “loved away” with treats, cooing voices, and zero accountability. And they didn’t just market it—they weaponized it.
“Pain-free.”
“Fear-free.”
“Science-based.”
All hollow slogans masking a rigid ideology that refused to face the reality of canine behavior.
They demonized tools. They demonized structure. They demonized truth.
And they replaced it with sedation.
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2. They Traded Training for Pills
When the “treat your way through it” fairy tale collapses—and it always does with real-world dogs—force-free trainers have nothing left but a vet referral.
• “Your dog is just anxious.”
• “He’s probably traumatized.”
• “You’re doing everything right… it must be genetic.”
Translation? Drug him.
Don’t teach him. Don’t challenge him. Don’t guide him.
Medicate him into compliance.
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3. Owners Were Gaslit Into Helplessness
The average dog owner was brainwashed:
• Any correction is abuse.
• Any boundary is dominance.
• Any discomfort is trauma.
They turned dogs into glass figurines and trainers into spineless puppets.
And when the dog bites, lunges, tears through walls, or shuts down?
It’s not a training failure—it’s a “chemical imbalance.”
So they reach for Prozac, Trazodone, Gabapentin—not because it’s needed, but because they’ve been conditioned to fear anything else.
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4. The Numbers Don’t Lie—They Bleed
• Fluoxetine prescriptions are up 10X since 2013.
• Trazodone exploded post-2015.
• Vets now push drugs like candy to dogs who never needed them—only structure, clarity, and consequence.
This isn’t progress.
It’s chemical obedience sold as compassion.
It’s the end result of an ideology that would rather see a dog sedated than corrected.
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5. Who Profits? Everyone But the Dog
The force-free crowd makes bank on books, courses, and speaking gigs.
The vet industry rakes in billions off chronic medication.
Owners? Left hopeless, holding a pill bottle and a broken leash.
Dogs? Slumped in the corner, eyes glazed, drive dead, spirit smothered.
All because someone told their owner, “Use positive reinforcement only… or else you’re a monster.”
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Conclusion: This Isn’t Training—It’s Chemical Compromise
This is what happens when ideology replaces instinct.
When spineless trainers sell fantasy.
When owners are guilted into helplessness.
They didn’t save the dogs.
They sedated them into submission.
They silenced behavior by drugging it.
They buried drive beneath a haze of pharmaceuticals—
And then called it progress.
The dogs deserved better. And the force-free cult failed them all.

19/05/2025

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