Dear John, My dogs (small dogs) are used to going potty outside in the patio (grass in summer time) but in wintertime they go outside on the deck when they were puppies. Now they are 1 year old but I have never liked the dogs go potty outside in wintertime. Now we want to teach
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One of the most fun and gratifying things to “train with” a dog is scent-detection. I say “train with” as opposed to “train to” because it’s such a natural act for the dog. It’s more of a freeing up of the dog to be a dog rather then to train a dog to be a
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You may have heard of this, “A research station in Novosibirsk, Siberia, is home to an extraordinary group of foxes Border Collie-coloured foxes; foxes with blue eyes; foxes that whimper and compete for human attention; foxes that answer to their names. They are all the result of a remarkable 50 year-long experiment in domestication.” Read
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Shares Family With Recently Targeted Gene for Autism in Humans A canine chromosome 7 locus that confers a high risk of compulsive disorder susceptibility has been identified through a collaboration between the Behavior Service at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, the Program in Medical Genetics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the
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