From time to time, my clients have asked me whether they should consider getting another dog. The question of whether or not to get a second dog is a complex one, with many angles to consider. Dogs are social creatures, and with owners who are at work all day, their needs for companionship and mental […] The post Getting Another Dog: Factors to Consider appeared first on Outdoor Dog Adventures: Professional Dog Walking | Louisville, KY.| Outdoor Dog Adventures: Professional Dog Walking | Louisville, KY
“Catch them when they’re good.” It’s something one of the therapists used to say when I was a counselor for patients who had severe OCD and OCD spectrum disorders. It was her advice to the counselors, who were often so focused on correcting the negative behaviors of patients that they forgot to tell them when […] The post The Importance of Noticing Positive Behavior when Training Your Dog appeared first on Outdoor Dog Adventures: Professional Dog Walking | Louisville, KY.| Outdoor Dog Adventures: Professional Dog Walking | Louisville, KY
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Much as I love Smidgeon and Ruff, dogs have their downside. They expect their morning walk, rain or shine. Still, I need the exercise too and, on this particular day it wasn’t raining. Yet. W…| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
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I saw the dog coming towards us. Like always, I began to make a quick u-turn to give you some space. But silly me. There’s nothing quick about the way we move these days. So there we were – me guid…| notes from a dog walker
The other day a reporter from The Forward contacted me to share a story she produced about Gedalya Gottenger, a Hasidic Jew, who decided to become a dog walker. Hasidic Jews are notoriously …| notes from a dog walker