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What if your independence in the world, the ability to go where you want and find your way back home, was completely dependent upon a seeing eye dog — and then your canine partner grew old and had to be retired? What if when you went back to the guide dog school that placed your first …
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One of my favorite things about dogs is that they cannot tell a lie. Not because they can’t talk, but simply because they just don’t lie. It’s not in their wheelhouse, thankfully. This inability to lie has huge implications on how we train these wonderful creatures. Here are three real-life examples that could have turned …
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You’ve heard about people and their dogs looking alike. This doesn’t apply to Riggins and me, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t twins in other ways. Riggins is a 10-year-old black-and-white male mutt. I’m a tall, 41-year-old Caucasian woman. Before you get to know him, we seem like a bit of an odd couple. More than …
