I have a copy of the book Rex in the City up for grabs! Here is a little more about it, and how you can win the book for yourself.

Lee Harrington, a frequent contributer to the Bark magazine, wrote a wonderfully witty and tender memoir about rescuing and abused shelter dog and rehabilitating him in her tony NYC apartment. During the process she went from glamorous downtown hipster to dog lover, thoroughly obsessed with the health and happiness of her dog. The book, Rex and the City, is now available in paperback and Lee is going on tour to promote adoptions and the book. Her tour (virtual and old-fashioned) includes inviting organizations to bring dogs in need of adoptions to her signings and donating a portion of the proceeds to the Mayor’s Alliance, a group dedicated to making NYC no-kill. You can read more about the book at www.rexandthecity.net, though be forewarned the publisher thought it was chick lit instead of dog lit.

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We do not believe in using the electronic collar as a punitive device, because that eliminates half of all of the good things that you can do with it, and it’s the better half that is being forgotten for those that do it. Sure, there are times it can be used as a deterrent just like a leash or your voice can be, but also like your voice and leash, it also has many positive values as well. A leash is nothing but a restrictive device. Cookies do not come falling out of a leash, nor does a tape recording that says that the dog is a good boy. However, when a person takes their dog for a walk, the dog comes running with his tail wagging to put his leash on! Our dogs do the same with our Sit Means Sit dog training collar. Then again, people don’t always just put the leash on only when the dog is bad, nor do they take it off when he is doing good things like having fun on a walk. The leash is neutral. Training with our remote electronic dog collar, or e collar as some refer to it as, should be the same. Here is a good video with explanation of what the dog looks like with out the collar on, done by Ashton Fitz-Gerald from our Las Vegas dog training office.

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Comb through the unseen healthy hair and get rid of the shedding hair; this is what most groomers do first before cutting your pets coat. A professional pet groomer will take their time when grooming each pet; they will make sure they do their best, because they understand that is what it takes to keep your business. You have to groom some animals all at once, while a lot of other animals have so much hair that it is easier to do a little at a time each day. Dog grooming seminars are usually advertised in dog grooming papers; these seminars are designed to help you get a feel for dog grooming.

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The big news is that yesterday a 4 month old puppy came to live at my house for a little while. We are fostering Jessy for the Southern California Golden Retriever Rescue. So I guess that makes me a big brother…kind of. She is in her gangly teenager stage…all limbs!

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