Keeping an older hunting dog healthy and active is a challenge, but the rewards are numerous. Unfortunately, a sporting dog usually starts to feel the effects of aging just when he or she is well trained, calmed downed, easy to handle and has the business of hunting and retrieving down to a science — in other words, in their prime.
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A land-use issue has dredged a huge divide between users of Pacific coast beaches. On one side are those who support protection of habitat for an endangered bird; on the other side are those who want to guard their right to use the beach for recreational pursuits. Here’s my view of it.
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Stanley Coren, a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia and life-long dog owner, has written a guide to dog communications that will help every dog owner, from experienced handler to first-time puppy raiser. It could do for human/canine communications what the horse whisperer claimed to do for horses.
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