Author: amix

For all of you who are certain you have the worst-behaved dog in the world, I thought I'd ease your minds by releasing to the public our highly-classified photo library from several years ago - right after we brought [...]

Watch how well the "red light/green light" method of leash-training works, combined with social play as positive reinforcement for calm obedience, to stop a dog from pulling on walks: Here is the YouTube link.

With pretty much every family I meet that wants help with their dog, at some point I ask "Do you ever give your dog rawhides?"I ask for any of a variety of reasons.First of all chewing can keep a [...]

Sometimes I think we should be glad humans don't subscribe to that same doggy wisdom of  "If you can't eat it ... pee on it!"

Have you ever found yourself with more dogs than you have leashes? This can happen if you drop or lose a leash; or when you want to help a friend grab their runaway dog; or when you need to [...]

What a great time the Calm Energy therapy team had last week at Brooklyn's PS 203! Someone got smooched in the face! The fourth-grade kids had been doing a project on the Iditarod (yes, I just had to Google [...]

A Tale of Two Therapy Dogsin A Brooklyn Dog's LifeMarch 20, 2011 "I love reading about the positive effects of therapy dogs and have always wondered what it takes for dogs to get trained and certified. When I learned thatAnthony Newman of [...]

Packs of pooches, walk through beautiful New York City, raise money for animal shelters... what could be better? Tell your friends and we'll see you April 16th at 5:00 p.m.!

Brad and Cassiusin sunny California An old friend of mine who lives in California updated his Facebook page with this post this morning:"Got completely locked out of my place tonight. Thought I'd check the back patio door one last [...]