Well, seriously, an entire army of you begged for the Zucchini Yum recipe. Well, okay, maybe 4 or 5. I'd already written it out on Facebook, so it's no work to replicate it here. And really, if you don't have them, it might not make sense, but at this time of year, Zucchini truly does qualify as a CRISIS. (Later today I'll answer some of the comments about dogs fighting in the home--some heartbreaking, all fascinating--, but for now, in the knick of time): ZUCCHINI YUM RECIPE NUMBER ONE: 6 med Zucchini peeled and chopped or shredded, 4 TB butter, 2 med tomatoes diced and seeded, 2 c shredded cheese, 2 c soft bread crumbs, 2 eggs, 1 med onion diced, 1 tsp basil dry or a buncho chopped fresh basil (best!), 1/2 tsp garlic powder, 1/2 tsp salt & pepper each. Saute Zucchini in Read More
Archives for September 2013
Serious Dog Fighting: Questions to Ask if Considering “What Next?”
Recently I had a discussion with good friends and colleagues about how to handle difficult cases in which two dogs have engaged in extremely serious fights in the home. We found ourselves sorting through what factors need to be considered if re-homing is on the table. This is a common problem brought to behaviorists; I must have seen hundreds of clients who had dogs who did not get along. At all. I don't mean dogs who had minor tiffs, or dogs who were occasionally possessive-aggressive ("My couch! My human!), but dogs who had truly serious issues and were making life at home less than relaxing, if not downright dangerous. Sometimes they had serious, injurious fights, sometimes one dog lived in obvious terror of the other, even though actual fights were rare or non existent, and sometimes Read More