Becoming alpha - intellectual style - San Francisco Examiner

Becoming alpha - intellectual style - San Francisco Examiner
It is important to be the alpha in the relationship with your coonhound. As hunting dogs, coonhounds are often alpha personalities, which isn't always well suited to a fullfilling experience as a dog owner. There is really no need for overpowering

Pedley dog competing in national finals for agility - Riverside Press Enterprise
PEDLEY - Rogue, a 4-year-old Australian cattle dog, is winging his way to Missouri this morning to compete in the agility competition at this weekend's Purina Incredible Dog Challenge National Finals. Rogue qualified for the Saturday event after a

Don Imus on Fox: 'You've got nuts in this building' - Los Angeles Times Blogs
Radio provocateur Don Imus, whose daily talk show begins simulcasting on Fox Business Network on Monday, said the cable channel “is a much nicer place” than the other networks that have run his program. That said, “you’ve got nuts in this

Canine Intelligence - KYW News radio
A new study revealed earlier in the week confirmed what dog lovers have known for quite some time now - our best friends are much smarter than we think! The latest accumulated research at the American Psychological Association has shown that the

Assistance dogs trained to do more - South Coast Today
Some of the service dogs Lu and Dale Picard train — and it takes months to train them — are taught to bug you. The Torrington, Conn., couple, founders of the nonprofit East Coast Assistance Dogs, Inc. (www.ecad1.org), have been training

The UK is now a surveillance society - Online Journal
Since 1996, the United Kingdom Audit Commission has run the National Fraud Initiative (NFI), an exercise that matches electronic data within and between audited bodies, apparently to prevent and detect fraud. Next month, local authorities (councils

Learning is a lifelong process - Utah Chronicle
Everyone’s heard them, probably even said them on occasion: timeless age jokes that correlate one’s ability to learn with being young. We now know that when it comes to learning, the theory “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” has been