by Chantal Mills | Dec 30, 2016 | Behaviour, dog, Kids and Dogs, Uncategorised
CONGRATULATIONS!!! You are expecting. Your life is about the change, baby. And for your dog ? Well, a lot is going to change too! The toys won’t all be his anymore. The noises will be odd and what about those smells ? The hardest change may just be not being the...
by Chantal Mills | Oct 17, 2016 | dog, Health, Nutrition
According to Wikipedia, Coprophagia is the consumption of feces. Coprophagy refers to many kinds of feces eating, including eating feces of other species (heterospecifics), of other individuals (allocoprophagy), or its own (autocoprophagy) Some animal species eat...
by Chantal Mills | Sep 12, 2016 | dog, Training, Training Methods, Uncategorised
When I was a so-called traditional trainer, when I first started training dogs, I really did not understand how using food in training could be as effective as what I was doing. I’ll be frank – I thought only the weak had to revert to using food....
by Chantal Mills | Apr 27, 2016 | Training Methods
Don’t get the wrong idea! I’m a firm believer in humane and respectful training. You won’t see me giving the leash a good “pop” to get a dog’s attention, nor will you hear me tell folks that they should be the dominant one in their relationship with their dog. I used...
by Chantal Mills | Feb 11, 2016 | Training Methods
Here’s a great little list entitled ‘What Every Pet Owner Needs to Know About Dog Trainers’ I really like #10 – “Just because dog training is an unregulated industry doesn’t mean that some of us are not preparing ourselves and learning to...