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Mornings are busy times at the Dunrovin nest. Even though this year’s chick, Honor and Glory, are able to fly, they are not yet able to fish for themselves. Each morning either Harriet or Hal delivers fish to the nest for the chicks to fight about who...

My love affair with Miss Dixie, my Chevy Silverado 2500HD Duramax diesel pickup with an Allison towing transmission, took me completely by surprise.
I am not a motor head. For most of my life, I really didn’t care much about vehicles. It mattered not to me how they run; I could have cared less about what’s under their hoods. Television ads for pickups have always struck me as an excess of testosterone...

Whether your dog is meeting new people, dogs, or Martians, here’s a few things to consider to make sure everything goes well.
We tend to think of greetings as one behavior: the dog says hi. But, from a training perspective, a greeting is a sophisticated chain of behaviors. Think about what has to happen for a successful greeting:...

This game is an off-switch behavior designed to help your dog look to you for when to get worked up, and to get lots of practice on self calming. I need to do a better video, but that will have to be another day! At the end of the Relax/Get Excited game...