by Anne-Marie Mayes When you adopt two dogs at the same time or very close together, your vet or dog trainer may mention "Littermate Syndrome" even if they are not actually littermates. This topic hasn't been studied very much but this article is based on my experience as well as the experience of other trainers and veterinarians I have worked with. When someone adopts 2 dogs at one time they usually believe the dogs will play, entertain, and exercise each other. They may also believe there...

by Anne-Marie Mayes One goal in my training career has been to educate people about dogs and how to co-exist with your dog in our society. All it takes is for one oversight or one dog shows reactive behaviour and all dogs are affected. For example if one dog lunges at a person in a dog-friendly store, they stop allowing dogs altogether. I believe that owners need to understand their dog's behaviour and be held accountable. I want dogs to become more included in our society, both outdoors...

In the past I have written articles about my travels with the dogs and this time I want to share about our recent trip to Prince Edward Island. I was a little stuck on what to talk about, but as I started to think of the dogs' behaviour with the different environments that we went to, I came up with a few ideas. So I would am going to combine some observations as well as recommended training scenarios that I experienced during my vacation. To begin, this year I brought my youngest dog...