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I was at a sheepdog trial recently when a friend reminded me of an incident from long ago that I described in For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotions in You and Your Best Friend. Here’s the text: At first, all I saw was a white blur out of the corner of my eye.  […] The post Stunned. Does It Happen to Dogs Too? appeared first on The Other End of the Leash. [...]

Dr. Karen London, in a reprinted article in Bark Magazine, raised some interesting questions about the meaning of different patterns of raised hackles, or piloerection, in dogs. First off, note that many people associate piloerection with aggression, well illustrated in my search for photos of dogs with raised hackles in a commercial photo site: All […] The post Piloerection in Dogs: Scared, or Just Glad to See Me? appeared first on The Other End of the [...]

I’m taking the weekend off, it being Labor Day and all. Here are a few photos of the WWSDA Midwest Championship Sheepdog Competition we just got back from. (More on that next week!) Skip and Maggie loved doing their volunteer job of picking up sheep after the ProNovice Runs. Here’s Maggie waiting for this run […] The post No Work on Labor Day appeared first on The Other End of the Leash. [...]

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  Last weekend we were at a sheepdog trial, where I could walk the dogs off leash in a field full of campers and other dogs. The area was surrounded by a knock-you-to-your-knees electric fence. What a joy to know that I could trust my dogs to stop when I said, stay close when asked, […] The post Recalling the Recall appeared first on The Other End of the Leash. [...]