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1. Housetraining an adult dog

N.H. Sunday News - Dog Tracks Column - 8/3/08 By: Gail T. Fisher We’ve had our new dog—an adult mixed breed, probably around five years old—for three months. He adjusted beautifully and I thought he was housetra...

29/07/2008 | 42 Hits | Print | Email

2. Teach your dog to retrieve

N.H. Sunday News - Dog Tracks Column By: Gail T. Fisher On this next-to-the-last shopping day before Christmas, if you haven’t bought your dog anything, don’t worry about it. What your dog appreciates more than any...

23/12/2007 | 30 Hits | Print | Email

3. Rewards beat the heck out of corrections in training

I recently heard a client of ours with two dogs brings each of them to a different training school. They bring their “nice” dog to us, for the positive reinforcement training we do, and their “harder” dog to another school, where they use a c...

16/09/2007 | 18 Hits | Print | Email

4. "No-Bark" collars

N.H. Sunday News - Dog Tracks Column By: Gail T. Fisher My last two columns addressed a question about whether or not electronic fencing can affect a dog’s personality and temperament. In response to this topic, I got th...

09/09/2007 | 51 Hits | Print | Email

5. More on electronic fencing

N.H. Sunday News - Dog Tracks Column By: Gail T. Fisher Last week I addressed some of the physical issues related to electronic, invisible fencing. In addition to the tangible dangers of non-physical fencing, Julie Williams, P...

02/09/2007 | 17 Hits | Print | Email

6. Electronic fencing

N.H. Sunday News - Dog Tracks Column By: Gail T. Fisher I got an email from Julie Williams, President of New England Doglift Rescue Organization who wrote: “I just got through going through three years of your articles l...

26/08/2007 | 18 Hits | Print | Email

7. Career advice

N.H. Sunday News - Dog Tracks Column By: Gail T. Fisher Having a weekly column means always being on the look-out for interesting topics, and noting something that might be appropriate. When the same question comes up three ti...

01/07/2007 | 29 Hits | Print | Email

8. Advice to cure barking

N.H. Sunday News - Dog Tracks Column By: Gail T. Fisher I got a call this week from a reader who brought to my attention an oversight: Two weeks ago I promised solutions to barking. With apologies to anyone who was waiting for...

10/06/2007 | 14 Hits | Print | Email

9. Helping a dog enjoy riding

N.H. Sunday News - Dog Tracks Column By: Gail T. Fisher A reader asks: “My dog has pulled tendons in his rear leg, and cannot jump into the car. He doesn’t like to be picked up, or enticed to get in. Any suggestion...

29/04/2007 | 12 Hits | Print | Email

10. Housetraining - Puppy or geriatric

N.H. Sunday News - Dog Tracks Column By: Gail T. Fisher Groundhog Day was Mayday my Beardie’s 15th birthday . . . and yes, the old guy is still doing . . . OK. Interestingly, it has taken me about a year to have one of t...

11/02/2007 | 15 Hits | Print | Email