Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey! You are awesome. You gave me a lot of ideas for future 3LostDogs content. Most of your responses fell into four categories, so I came up with four possible guide ideas. Now, I need you to vote for your favorite one: Dealing with Distractions – “My [...]
When I go in to the dog pound for a volunteer shift in a few days, I expect to see a lot of new dogs. If this year is anything like last year, my local Animal Care & Control will pull dozens of extra dogs off the streets in the week following Independence Day. They [...]
So I’m going to be working on a new project for 3 Lost Dogs, and I need you to tell me what that project is. I want to create something a bit more in depth than a regular blog post or video – I’m thinking of doing a new free mini-ebook or video series. I’ll [...]
“So,” I ask the customer walking the kennel rows. “What are you looking for in a dog?” I’m a volunteer adoption counselor at the pound, see. It’s my job to make sure people are matched with the right dog. It’s fascinating. Lots of adopters I meet have no idea what a dog is! Often when [...]
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Boredom: The leading cause of doggie destruction in the home. When you don’t have time to entertain your dog, use some of these games and (mostly) homemade dog toy ideas and let him keep himself busy for a while. Most of these can be thrown together on a moment’s notice, but for the toys that [...]
I’m willing to bet that at some point in time, the words “I just don’t have time to really train my dog” have come out of your mouth. I’m also willing to bet that time is not REALLY the reason that you can’t seem to get much training done. Because whether you’re training Sparky to [...]
My border collie-ish dog Merlin and I were at a morning practice session at my agility club. We’d been working for a long time, and Merlin, getting bored, decided that he’d rather go hang out with the other dogs. He took off after the nearest dog and got in her way. “Come play with me!” [...]
These are a couple of myths about shelter/rescue dogs I hear all the time, and am pretty tired of hearing. Why are these two so prevalent? Maybe it’s because rescuing a dog from a shelter is a cool thing to do right now, and these myths help make it seem even more like an even [...]
“Argh!” groans the dog owner. “I don’t want to have to give Sparky a treat every single time he does something right. That seems really ineffective. He’s gonna get fat and I’m gonna go broke buying all these hot dogs.” This dog owner is absolutely right. It is ineffective to treat your dog every time [...]
