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31. Beware of your dog on thin ice

N.H. Sunday News - Dog Tracks Column - 3/14/10 By: Gail T. Fisher   A frightening story in the paper this week got me thinking. A man in Kingston, NH jumped into a partially frozen pond to rescue his dog that had fallen th...

09/03/2010 | 1225 Hits | Print | Email

32. Don't blame the dog for behaving like a dog

N.H. Sunday News - Dog Tracks Column - 3/7/10 By: Gail T. Fisher Several people have asked me if I think Tilikum, the Sea World Orca, should be euthanized. I don’t. Did he intentionally kill his trainer? No one can know ...

03/03/2010 | 1225 Hits | Print | Email

33. Don't label a dog's behavior

N.H. Sunday News - Dog Tracks Column - 2/28/10 By: Gail T. Fisher Last week I wrote about the messages we might take from the tragic incident of the man who shot his dog and left him to die in the woods. One of the lessons is to ...

23/02/2010 | 1216 Hits | Print | Email

34. A lesson to be learned from a sad dog story

N.H. Sunday News - Dog Tracks Column - 2/21/10 By: Gail T. Fisher   If you heard about it, I know you were horrified to learn about the dog shot by his owner, and left tied to a tree to die. As awful as the original story ...

16/02/2010 | 2110 Hits | Print | Email

35. A dog is like an air traveler

N.H. Sunday News - Dog Tracks Column - 2/14/10 By: Gail T. Fisher   After the blizzard across the middle Atlantic last week—the first one—I was stuck in Washington Dulles Airport for two days, trying to get hom...

10/02/2010 | 1045 Hits | Print | Email

36. Dog trainers' behavior is reinforced by the dog's behavior

N.H. Sunday News - Dog Tracks Column - 2/7/10 By: Gail T. Fisher   A reader writes: “I'm looking forward to another web article to follow the comment Caesar Milan 'appears to' have success with his methods used on do...

02/02/2010 | 2740 Hits | Print | Email

37. Comparing two more dog training methods

N.H. Sunday News - Dog Tracks Column - 1/31/10 By: Gail T. Fisher Last week I wrote about an “Aha!” moment I had when I was writing my book, THE THINKING DOG, when I realized that every single dog training approach I&...

26/01/2010 | 1669 Hits | Print | Email

38. Comparing dog training methods

N.H. Sunday News - Dog Tracks Column - 1/24/10 By: Gail T. Fisher My book, THE THINKING DOG, started out as simply a revision of a short manual I wrote in 1996, when I was learning “clicker training,” a then re...

19/01/2010 | 1766 Hits | Print | Email

39. January is National Train Your Dog Month

N.H. Sunday News - Dog Tracks Column - 12/27/09 By: Gail T. Fisher   If I were to ask Kochi, our rescue dog from Okinawa (where the average temperature is 70 degrees), if he likes living in the New Hampshire climate, my gu...

22/12/2009 | 1218 Hits | Print | Email

40. Considering a dog for Christmas? Reconsider!

N.H. Sunday News - Dog Tracks Column - 12/20/09 By: Gail T. Fisher   There was an interesting article in last Sunday’s paper entitled “Looking for a holiday pup? Pick Personality.” I wish the article had ...

15/12/2009 | 1184 Hits | Print | Email