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Endeavor to maintain your pet’s normal routine. Walks, training, mental and physical enrichment, interactive feeding toys, chews, training & bedtime - Try to keep your pet’s daily routine as normal as possible. If you’re hosting celebrations, remember to exercise pets before your guests arrive. This will help them de-stress and cope better when the festivities...

Rather than put all the responsibility for the dog’s behavior on the dog, take it upon yourself to teach him alternative behaviors that can be reinforced and benefit the mutual relationship Rather than waiting for a dog to make a mistake so you can punish him, reinforce behavior you like to help the dog learn...

Chapter Eight Pet Training and Behavior Consulting – A Model for Raising the Bar to Protect Professionals, Pets and their People There can be no discussion about industry licensing or occupational licensing without first embarking on a journey into professional ethics! Download the FREE Book here  In any business, the individual is constantly faced with...

Temple Grandin and Mark Deesing's paper, "Distress in Animals: Is it Fear, Pain or Physical Stress?", reviews the most current understanding of two of the most basic types of suffering - fear and pain - only to arrive at an unexpected conclusion: in most vertebrates, fear causes greater suffering than pain. Just think about that,...

In the past, the concept of the Five Freedoms has been considered the gold standard of animal welfare that falls under human control and has since been adopted by a number of related groups and organizations. The concept originated in Brambell’s (1965) report looking into the welfare of animals kept under intensive livestock husbandry systems...

What is Stress? "Any intrinsic or extrinsic stimulus that evokes a biological response is known as stress" - Yaribeygi, H., Panahi, Y., Sahraei, H., Johnston, T. P., & Sahebkar, A. (2017) - so let's be realistic, everyone has stress in their lives. However, if stress is having a negative impact on our behavior or our...

Scientific Method! The scientific method is a process by which we systematically advance our understanding of the world. True scientists adhere strictly to this method. It is considered the foundation of all branches of science. In fact, a result can only be called 'scientific' if it has been subjected to the standards of the scientific...

There is much chatter within the pet industry about transparency, competency and accountability amongst professionals. Let’s take a look at each of these individually and what they mean. 1. Transparency Transparency would seem to imply openness. Are you transparent in your business practices? Can others see, read or listen to information that informs them upfront...

Are You Guilty of Uncivil and Destructive Workplace Behavior? Do you embark on private discussions with a co-worker where the motivation and goal are simply to complain about other team members? Do you mock others and complain about colleagues and decisions because you always know best? What is Civility? Workplace civility can be defined as...

40 Years Young or Older - We Need to Support Our Bone Density! Even after humans stop growing through automated stages of bone and muscle development, something called appositional growth of the bone continues. This is when new bone matrix layers are deposited over the old layering of bone to establish thicker and more dense...