Tag: Dogs
High-Tech Pets
Ever wonder where the closest dog park is? Or have you wanted to track your pet’s vet visits and medications? Like everything else these days, there’s an app for that.
Dogs & Cats Living Together
Most people who have pets generally consider themselves to be either dog people or cat people, but if you’re like me, an animal person, you may want to have both dogs and cats as part of your family.
Play Fetch, Not Tug
As you may have noticed by now, one of my favorite topics is how to make your dog a well-behaved family member.
A walk does a world of good
I have yet to find anything that makes a dog happier or a better-behaved member of your family than exercise.
Must love dogs
I have lived in my current apartment for approximately five months. And in those months, I’ve met a handful of neighboring tenants in the building, but 90 percent of these introductions have occurred in the last few weeks. Why you ask? I just got a dog.
Dog park etiquette
If you have ever watched a dog at a dog park, you can recognize the canine equivalent of joy. Seeing the wild abandon of your pets freely running and interacting in their instinctive pack manner is, I believe, something akin to watching your child run through the turnstiles into the Magic Kingdom at Disneyland.
Pitty Fairness
Saving Sunny Inc. held Pitty Fairness, a pet-friendly art and music fair to celebrate the positive movement for pit bulls, on July 30 at Central Park.
Meet the Crums
This week’s column is the first in a series of occasional introductions to the pets that grace the lives of some of our area’s best-known residents.
The great crate: part II
In my last column, I talked about crate training as a key tactic in eliminating many negative or destructive behaviors that are typical for puppies. The basics of crate training are that you give your puppy a safe, secure and comfortable place to be when you can’t watch for and correct bad behaviors.
