It is Dog Bite Prevention week, and I am inspired to repeat a post I wrote last year about that topic. I don't usually repeat blogs, but I've seen so much pain and suffering (and I don't mean physical) over this issue that I am inspired to put it out into the universe once again. Several of you responded with some extremely thoughtful comments and interesting cases: It would be great to hear if you have any updates. Meanwhile, here's my piece on preventing dog bites, a bit different from the standard advice: From May 18, 2012: A million years ago, my first Border Collie Drift lept up and nipped a man's nose at the Wisconsin State Fair. Even though the man was clearly not injured, with virtually not even a red spot on his nose, I was shook up and appalled. He was furious. "Your dog Read More
Lambs, Rain, Papers, Lambs, Rain, Papers, Lambs. . .
I'm in the tunnel. You know the one I mean, the one where you are so engrossed, overwhelmed and logistically enclosed by what you are doing that life seems narrow but not small, confined but not constrained. I am full up with my life right now, which I summed up as well as possible in the title: Lambs, Rain, Papers, Lambs, Rain, Papers. If there is life outside of this small but saturated universe, would it do my laundry? This is not a small thing to ask, given that the pants I am wearing into the barn could stand up by themselves, and whose smell could clear a room. I should save them for the next time I think I'll have to stand in line and wait for something. And so, today post is all about the farm. Although I have had an especially interesting week on campus (including a vigorous Read More
Guess Leo’s Breed Profile – Win a DVD!
It's time for a contest! I'm going to be writing a blog on Friday about the results of a Wisdom Panel® (Professional) test that Katie and I had run on her new mystery pup, Leo, adopted from Humane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha, WI. We thought it would be great to fun to ask what your best guesses of what breeds make up Leo's heritage, and will reinforce the winner with a signed Patricia McConnell DVD of his or her choice. Below you'll find pictures of Leo, as well as some physical characteristics. Guess up to three breeds that you think might be represented in Leo's genetics, in order from greatest to least percentages. Get your guesses in by 11:59pm CST on Thursday, April 11 and we'll let you know who won, along with the full results of Leo's breed profile in Friday's Read More
Willie Learns Nouns! Maybe…
There's always a silver lining, and that was true of our endless winter here in Wisconsin. Given the high snow depth and the low temperatures, I couldn't always get myself out for a long walk every day, and so Willie and I played a lot of games indoors and we both ended up learning something interesting. I decided in December that it was time to try, again, to teach Willie the names of some of his toys. If you've been reading the blog awhile you may recall my writing in Feb of 2010 about Willie's inability to understand words as nouns in What do words mean to dogs? and in January of 2011 in Could You Learn 1022 Nouns? As I mentioned in those articles, Willie appeared to see most verbal cues as verbs, with a few exceptions of living things like "sheep" and "Jim." But every time I tried to Read More
Blog Redesign and Open Mike
First off, some good news. Many more people from all over the world have joined us in the past few months, the traffic to The Other End of the Leash blog has increased rapidly in the past six months. (Hello Serbia, United Arab Republic, Boliva, Nepal...!) What a joy it is to have this international conversation with dog lovers from so many different perspectives. However, our increased traffic was causing some website problems; as a friend says, a "high quality problem" indeed. Along with fixing website glitches, we are taking this as an opportunity to renew and refresh, and so we have made some design changes to the blog. When you go to the home page you will automatically be on the page of the most current blog post. Comments will be visible directly below, and previous posts are Read More
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