Pet Wellness Advocate
Do You Have to Bribe Your Dog? Or Do You Reward Her? There’s a general misunderstanding floating around about what “positive reinforcement” means in training, and the use of food rewards that often accompanies it. There are some “old fashioned” trainers who dismiss reward-based learning concepts as being “bribery” and think a dog should do... Read more »
Madonna leaves the Dog Film Festival in New York City to go… home! The 2nd Annual Dog Film Festival, held at Symphony Space in New York City on October 15, was a howling success in many ways. I returned home happy, but exhausted, and then I received the fantastic news that Madonna, a 22-month-old rescued... Read more »
Buy a Dog Treat, Help a Teen Save his Own Life Tune in to this week’s DOG TALK and listen to my conversation with Kathy Hooks, the Employment Director of Daybreak --- a nonprofit organization that provides emergency shelter, outreach programs, and transitional housing to youth who are experiencing homelessness in Dayton, Ohio. Daybreak’s own... Read more »
Halo calls itself “America’s Best-Loved Holistic Pet Food” and I can assure you that is doubly true in the cities and towns where the Dog Film Festival traveled this past year! In those destinations, Halo gave 10,000 bowls of pet food to the shelter that was our partner and beneficiary in that location, through Halo’s... Read more »
Halloween Safety for Cats & Dogs: Don’t Worry About the Chocolate! I’m so sick of being reminded not to let my dogs eat chocolate on Halloween! Aren’t you? Don’t we all know this by now? Haven’t we all been told so many times that chocolate is dangerous for dogs that we just roll our eyes... Read more »
Top Entry Litter Boxes?? Cats Want to Know Whom to Thank for That Lovely Idea?! I got a great question recently for my show Cat Chat: “What’s up with top-entry litter boxes? Are they okay for cats or were they designed for human comfort?” I appreciate the fact that this gentleman intuitively recognized that there... Read more »
Dog Talk University Debuts: Myths About Dog Vomiting After my last blog on the basics of how and why a dog vomits, I realized there was a need for some shorter informational radio podcasts in which I could impart some basic information about pet health and wellness. I figured it might be easier on the... Read more »
What Does It Look Like When a Dog Vomits? This is a quick “Vomit 101” so you can be aware and prepared for what happens when a dog throws up. (If you have my book THE DOG BIBLE: Everything Your Dog Wants You to Know then you probably don’t panic if your dog throws up... Read more »
Strut with Me and Your mutt this Saturday October 1st in New York City Are you going to be in New York City this coming weekend? On Saturday October 1st you simply have to get down to Strut Your Mutt at the Hudson River Park's Pier 26 in Tribeca. From 9 AM to 1 PM... Read more »
The Dog Film Festival Was Boffo in Chicago! The dog lovers of Chicago came out in droves to see the Dog Film Festival at the wonderful Music Box theater, which worked right alongside the Festival team in doing PR. We chose Chicago because our national sponsor the Petco Foundation had given a grant to the... Read more »