Showing content tagged with: socialization
Expert Advice: Cute & Funny
Family Dog Photo Contest: Time To Fall Back
Saturday marked Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the U.S. Originally conceived as a way to save resources and better utilize the sunlight of the increasingly shorter days, it was first adopted in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson. Every year, we remind ourselves to “fall back” in autumn and “spring ahead” into Standard Time once winter […]
/expert-advice/lifestyle/photo-contest-fall-back/
| November 2, 2015
Expert Advice: Advanced Training
Training Your Dog to Be a Therapy Dog
Training Your Dog to Be a Therapy Dog The AKC GoodDog! Helpline receives frequent inquiries about how to train dogs for therapy work. GDH Trainer Christie Canfield conducts therapy visits with her dog and also teaches therapy dog classes. She tells us the “who, what, when and how” of making a therapy dog. Because of […]
/expert-advice/training/training-dog-therapy/
| October 5, 2015
Expert Advice: Fun Facts
Five Amazing Ways Friends Helped Me Survive the Death of My Dog
Writer James Thurber called it “this most inconsolable of sorrows,” the grief that comes with the loss of a beloved four-legged companion. In the months leading up to end for my 15-year-old Labrador Retriever, Maggie, I braced myself for a deep paralyzing misery. I had pulled her from a shelter 14 years earlier. She was […]
/expert-advice/lifestyle/five-ways-friends-helped-me-survive-dogs-death/
| September 9, 2015
Expert Advice: Fun Facts
Perks of Being a City Dog
City slickers are used the grime and the crime that comes with their territory, but when they have a dog by their side, it make the concrete jungle seem just a little more friendly. And the dog can benefit, too. Here’s why: He gets more exercise (and so do you): This subject is often the […]
/expert-advice/lifestyle/perks-of-being-a-city-dog/
| September 3, 2015
Expert Advice: Fun Facts
Why the Dogs Saved From Michael Vick’s Fighting Ring Are the Ones Made of Steel
In 2007, football star Michael Vick plead guilty to federal conspiracy charges for running a dogfighting ring out of his “Bad Newz Kennels” in Virginia. Fifty-one dogs were rescued during a raid, and many were rehabilitated. He served 18 months in jail, and then continued on with this professional life, playing for the Philadelphia Eagles […]
/expert-advice/lifestyle/dogs-saved-from-vicks-ring/
| August 28, 2015
Expert Advice: News
Healing the bodies and broken hearts of the pets displaced by Katrina: A volunteer’s story
On the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina wreaking havoc in the southeastern United States, Seattle Times journalist Ranny Green reflects on his time in Louisiana on assignment with Noah's Wish, an organization that helps animals affected by natural disasters. Read Ranny's diary of his trip below, which originally ran in The Seattle Times in 2005. -- […]
/expert-advice/news/katrina-volunteers-story/
| August 27, 2015
Expert Advice: Basic Training
How to Recognize When Dogs Need Space and Give It to Them
Dogs are like people: sometimes they need a break. For many reasons, some dogs need space and time to themselves. Learn to recognize when and how to give dogs space.
/expert-advice/training/some-dogs-need-space/
| August 18, 2015
Expert Advice: Puppy Training
Early Puppy Training Is an Important Foundation
Every holiday season, our family gathers for a celebration between Christmas and New Year. Several of our young grandchildren are between the ages of 5 and 8. In wintertime in Western Pennsylvania, a fire is often started in the fireplace during the late afternoon or evening hours. The young ones ask how a fire is […]
/expert-advice/training/early-puppy-training-foundation/
| July 31, 2015
Expert Advice: Conformation
Starting a Breeding Program: Karen Staudt-Cartabona, Majenkir Borzoi
Adapted from a story originally published in the June 2011 AKC Gazette:After nearly a half-century in Borzoi, the best advice I can offer is to proceed slowly. When you begin to breed dogs, your first show dog will represent the ideal in your mind. That dog morphs in memory to near perfection in the years […]
/expert-advice/sports/karen-staudt-cartabona-majenkir-borzoi/
| July 29, 2015
Expert Advice: Fun With Your Dog
Tips for Starting a Jogging Program with your Dog
AKC GoodDog! Helpline trainer Hilarie Erb provides tips for starting a jogging program with your dog. It is important to do this safely and provide the proper training before you take off running! If you are a runner and think that your dog would be the ideal running partner, you may be right. However, there […]
/expert-advice/lifestyle/jogging-program-with-your-dog/
| July 22, 2015