Allie and Jagger

I've said it before and I’ll say it again, shelter dogs are wonderful! All of my dogs have been adopted from shelters. My life is not complete without a shelter dog (or dogs) in it.

So many people know the joys of adopting shelter animals. It’s an amazing feeling knowing you are making all the difference in a dog’s life when you take him home and give him a second chance to be loved and happy. Many times people feel that they were rescued, not just the dog.

Allie and Jagger’s fur parents know this feeling very well. They adopted Allie, who is 3 years old and Jagger who is 4 years old from BARC Houston Animal Shelter. These two cutie pies are wonderful and have filled their lives with love and laughter; so much that they started promoting #adoptdontshop on Instagram.  Because BARC is required by law to accept all animals into their shelter regardless of the breed, temperament and health conditions, that unfortunately means that they also have perform euthanasia procedures on a daily basis.

Allie and Jagger’s family want to bring attention to this to give all shelter animals an equal chance at a happy life.  Adopt don’t shop!

Here are Allie and Jagger arriving at the park. My heart swells to see the joy in their adorable fur faces.

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A Positive Reinforcement Reading List

I am a reader. My mother was first a librarian and later an English teacher, and from an early age I recognized and appreciated the power of books. I turn to them for information and inspiration, for pure escapism or for learning about my latest obsession. After adopting Ruby and realizing that she was going to be a challenging dog, I knew that the training philosophy I connected with had a name. I also knew that I needed to learn a lot more about it - the majority of my formal training experience was with horses. The following are some of the books that I turned to as I got to know my brilliant, intense little terrier:

The Power of Positive Dog Training by Pat Miller -  This book is a wonderful resource for force-free training, providing an overview as well as practical advice for basic through advanced behaviors and trouble-shooting. It includes information on clicker training, treat suggestions and a glossary of training terms.

101 Dog Tricks: Step by Step Activities to Engage, Challenge, and Bond with Your Dog by Kyra Sundance - This book sparked my love of trick training with Ruby, something that has proven to be incredibly rewarding for both of us. It has so many cute ideas and step by step instructions, organized by difficulty and providing ways to build on simpler tricks. Note: Some of the instructions do involve physical manipulation, such as holding a dog's foot up or placing a piece of tape on their nose, which could be aversive for some dogs. Please remember to observe your dog for signs of stress whenever you are training.

For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend by Patricia B. McConnell - While not specifically a training book, I think anything that deepens the knowledge of our dogs' inner lives will help us to communicate with them. I recommend any of McConnell's books, but found this one especially beautiful.

Control Unleashed: Creating a Focused and Confident Dog by Leslie McDevitt -  This book is meant as a companion to a specific training program for agility dogs, and can be difficult to apply if you don't have other dogs/handlers available to work with; however, there are some great exercises and most of all, a way to shift your thinking to help the sensitive/reactive/fearful dog. The story of McDevitt's dog Snap at the end is worth the entire book. 

Plenty In Life is Free by Kathy Sdao - This book is so important to me, and although it is more esoteric than instructional, it is a beautiful exploration of our ethical duties to our dogs and the limitless potential of joy that exists in those relationships. It spoke to my heart and expressed things I've had difficulty articulating in my own rejection of aversive methods. I recommend this to everyone who has ever asked if there is a better way to communicate. 

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5 Things To Do with Dogs and Puppies

Wonderful things to do with dog.

Travel with Dog.

In this post, we will showing you top 5 things to do with dogs. As well as travel dog, playing dog, sleeping dog, romancing dog and rescue dog. Recently we have a informational overview of the Biggest Dog in the world 2015. A dog can be all time a good friends of us. In this world, here have a lot of kind dog, we processing some of them for you. Also a few days ago, a dog has gave his life for keep a man from polices. Dog is the proved good friends for everyone in his life, from child to old one. Travel dog: We love to travel much everyday or in our holidays, then dog is the best alternative for us to make holidays trip to a long adventure trip, they are our honest friends and also dog will be a good and strong guard during the tours. We can't avoid dogs as our trips partners.

Playing dog.

Playing dog: Playing with dogs is the another good thing to do with dog. We can play with our dogs, from football to basket ball, or marathon to Golf. If you can train your dogs for enough to learn football, then it can playing well in football field as well as a dog is a good footballer.

Romancing dog.

Romancing dogs: Love a dog or a beautiful puppy is your way, it will love or care you back as you have gave. Dog loves romancing moments, you may consider some love to dogs, they will be happy.

Rescue dog.

Rescue dogs: A dog can be a good rescue dog while an earthquakes or any other disasters. We have saw dogs as a rescuer in recent earthquakes disaster in Nepal. Dogs can find missing people in the collapsed building or mudslides. It can be find easily than any other systems or technology. Rescuer dogs is natural gift.

Sleeping dog.

Sleeping dogs: Sleeping with dog is not a bad idea, it's a good choice able sleeping style for many people, specially a lot of children likes to sleeping with their dogs.

Beautiful Siberian Husky Dogs

SIBERIAN HUSKY.

It's one of the beautiful dog in the world, the Siberian husky. This dog enjoying the  one of the most wanted dog in the dog world. if we going to see list of the most beautiful dogs, there we should see Siberian husky dog as well as other popular dogs, German shepherd or American pit-bull dog. Siberian husky is a growing dog, dogs buyers are like to catch up one to become an respected owner of husky dog. Siberian husky famous for live in the much cold place as its name, Siberia is one of the coldest place in the world. Siberian husky was most popular dog for sledging in the ice land, specially at the arctic region. And now it's a favorite dog as a good friend. If we look the dog grooming world, there has a good dog as Siberian Husky.

Siberian Husky.

Top 10 beautiful Cat in the world

Photos of world's most beautiful cat.

A beautiful Cat.

In the world, have hundreds of difference kind cat, have beautiful cat. Now showing you most beautiful cat pictures for you and your family and friends, who really loves cat and loves cat as their favorite pets. Some of us, calling it pussy, our beautiful pussy. If you like cat as beautiful pets, then see and share those cat pics on the web. We all love our cat as our best friends, cat grooming world wide. You need to provide the only cat feeds for cats and love them that you can. See all cat photos and write your comments, we welcome your beautiful comments in our pets blog and your comment is valuable for us. You may visit Top 5 beautiful German Shepherd Puppy.

Bengal cat.

Bengal cat is one of the beautiful cat in the world and it can attract you easily by cat behavior, this cat a honest cat.

Cookie Cat.

 Cat also loves to eat cookie as this hungry cat.

Cat with baby.

Romeo cat.

Cat in alone.

Sweet cat.

cat.

Lion Cat.

Cat.

Angriest cat in the world

Angriest cat.

Today I wanna showing you world's angriest cat, it's always angry cat. When cat grooming is the one of the best topic of the animal world. We have shared many beautiful cat and dog pics on this pets blog, and today is the another day of the cat, caturday. See this beautiful angry cat and more of this blog.