by joadminist11 | Feb 14, 2023 | Cat
I want to start this with a confession: I used to be extremely skeptical of clicker training for cats. It seemed gimmicky and not particularly helpful, outside of teaching shelter cats tricks to entice adopters. Through continuing education, especially about...
by Joshua | Feb 8, 2020 | Horse
Lyviera is a Selle Francais mare who was initially bought by a riding club’s owner to be his personal competition horse. While she excelled in show jumping and was very strong in cross country, she was difficult in dressage, specifically very stiff on one side and...
by Joshua | Jan 31, 2020 | Shelter, Cat
Murray was probably the scariest cat I had met in my five years of working one-on-one with shelter cats. The handsome 5-year-old neutered male Nebelung (a breed I’d never heard of before!) was surrendered by a married couple who was going to have a baby. Although they...
by Joshua | Jan 31, 2020 | Dog
It was December of 1999. A few of us were sitting around complaining about how hard it was to get our students to let go of food – luring. Someone came up with the idea that we might introduce skateboard training, since it would be very hard to train that...
by Joshua | Feb 12, 2019 | Shelter, Cat
Case 1: Oomie I finally had a moment to get some work done on my laptop, so I pulled a chair up to the desk and started typing away. Oomie joined me. The sleek black cat jumped on my lap and settled in comfortably, purring. After a minute or two, Oomie stretched his...
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