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Puppy Tao: Puppy Palooza

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Dog Care and Training Articles. Saturday, August 30, 2014. I have great fun shooting dog photos at Paws 'N Effect. During special events there, and this morning, we had a "Puppy Palooza." There were different sessions for different ages and sizes, with agility equipment, kiddie pools, a sandbox with bones buried in it, and a big fenced-in area outdoors for zoomies. We set up all kinds of pictures while we were playing games. We released puppies on one side of this chute while I shot from the other. At th...

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Puppy Tao: Dock Dogs

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Dog Care and Training Articles. Tuesday, August 12, 2014. This week is our annual vacation trip up to Silver Lake, and while the weather wasn't so spectacular today, I spent a few minutes shoulder-deep in the water while Andy threw a tennis ball for the dogs. For the first time, we have two dogs who are grown up and. Confident at jumping off the high dock, so I got a few captures of synchronized jumps. Which gave me one more good one of Jax suspended in midair. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Puppy Tao: July 2014

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Dog Care and Training Articles. Wednesday, July 30, 2014. High Summer in the Meadow. This was a rather busy summer, work-wise. My consulting job kept me as busy as I was willing to be, so my days consisted of waking up, drinking coffee, working, and finding an escape around lunchtime before heading back to work for the rest of the afternoon. One of my favorite summer spots is the meadow at the East River Preserve in Guilford; at this time of year, it's full of wildflowers, butterflies, and swallows.

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Puppy Tao: October 2014

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Dog Care and Training Articles. Sunday, October 26, 2014. I split these photos out into their own post because there were so many of them. Usually, I'm extremely picky about my photos, often sorting one or two good ones out of dozens. What happened here, though, is that we ran into a mixed flock of mostly Eastern Bluebirds. Eventually I had crept close enough that I was actually in the middle of the flock. There were at least a dozen bluebirds, along with one White-breasted Nuthatch. While the birds were...

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Puppy Tao: Puppy Foundations: Socialization Basics

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Dog Care and Training Articles. Sunday, April 6, 2014. Puppy Foundations: Socialization Basics. I'll look at some of the new research around the timing and methodology of socialization. In puppy classes, we help build puppies' confidence and experience by. Giving them opportunities to interact with different obstacles and surfaces. For the purpose of this discussion, I'm defining socialization. Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about how context is king. Confident around new and strange things. Dr Sophia Yin...

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Puppy Tao: August 2014

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Dog Care and Training Articles. Saturday, August 30, 2014. I have great fun shooting dog photos at Paws 'N Effect. During special events there, and this morning, we had a "Puppy Palooza." There were different sessions for different ages and sizes, with agility equipment, kiddie pools, a sandbox with bones buried in it, and a big fenced-in area outdoors for zoomies. We set up all kinds of pictures while we were playing games. We released puppies on one side of this chute while I shot from the other. At th...

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Puppy Tao: November 2014

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Dog Care and Training Articles. Saturday, November 8, 2014. It's sort of a tired thing to reflect on the change of the seasons, I suppose. Still, it's what I find myself doing when I walk through the same spots from one season to the next. This season has seen a long, slow change of the leaves, and even this late on in the game, there are still trees holding their bright colors while others are bare. Is visiting again, so she joined the daily stay. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Puppy Tao has moved!

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Puppy Tao: February 2015

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Dog Care and Training Articles. Sunday, February 22, 2015. Last week, I wrote about Comet. And how well he was taking to therapy dog work. This week, it's Jax's turn. Jax is a bit more food-focused than Comet, and he goes absolutely bananas for the director of nursing. Her office is right beside the spot where I drop my coat and sign in, and she keeps a box of dog cookies on her shelf so she can spoil the therapy dogs. Location: The Connecticut Hospice. Sunday, February 15, 2015. As well as a good idea).

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Puppy Tao: Holy Coyote!

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Dog Care and Training Articles. Friday, April 18, 2014. I've been looking for the old-growth forests in Guilford's East River Preserve ever since. My friends moved to Guilford and found it. It's pretty huge, so there's a ton I haven't seen. Today, I took the dogs and went looking for those old oaks and poplars but found something quite different. Yes, that's a coyote. After about a quarter mile of this, she ended up ahead. Of us on the trail, so I made a judgement call that it might be easier to leave he...

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Puppy Tao: Dog Care and Training Articles

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Dog Care and Training Articles. Dog Care and Training Articles. Puppy Tao updates with a new article on dog care and training most Sunday evenings. You can read these articles in the regular flow of all my posts, or you can use the dog training. To see them chronologically. Here, they're grouped by topic. Catch Your Dog Making Good Choices. No, Your Dog's Not Dominant. Ignoring Isn't the Same Thing as Permitting. When You're a Dog, Context is Everything. The Relationship Between Punishment and Aggression.