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Why Is My Dog Staring at Me? No doubt about it, our dogs are keeping a close eye on us. Here are five reasons your dog is staring at you.
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How NOT to Train Your Puppy 14 common puppy rearing mistakes and how to avoid them. BY STEVE DUNO
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Find A New Best Friend Adorable adoptables—all the dogs on these pages are in search of their forever homes!
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Lassie, Sit! How To Get Your Dog to Do As You Ask How you phrase a command has a direct result on the reliability of your dog’s response. Turn to page 40 to find out if how you are issuing commands is hindering your dog’s performance! BY STANLEY COREN
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These Puppies Could Be Yours! Meet our adoptable cover pups!
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Leading the Blind Tips for living with a visually impaired dog.
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Call of the Wild Wolfdog sanctuaries provide much needed rescue and safe space for these magnificent and misunderstood animals.
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Big & Little These puppy and adult pairings (with breed info!) are pretty much guaranteed to put a smile on your face. Test this asser tion by turning to page 68. PHOTOGRAPHED BY SARAH DALOISE
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Stars & Their Pets Michelle Beadle—sports reporter, ESPN host, and major dog lover—talks rescue, being a woman in a notorious boy’s club, and why Pugs are the best. BY ROSE FROSEK
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Sometimes Failure Can Be A Good Thing There is one serious side effect to consider when acting as a foster parent to a rescue dog awaiting a forever home —you may just fall in love. BY POOJA MENON
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The Most Important Thing You Can Teach Your Dog Hint: the answer may surprise you. BY NICOLE
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BREED PROFILE 26
Find Your Perfect Match Could the Pug or the Papillon be your ideal breed match? Turn to page 26 to find out!
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The Samoyed: More Than Just a Pretty Face This energetic, beautiful, eager-to-please breed is a real charmer. BY KELLY CALDWELL
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Meet The Newbies Get to know these four breeds, newly recognized by the AKC, that will be competing at Westminster for the first time!
BODY & SOUL 74
Canine Personality Study Do you have the same personality as your dog? A recent study says you probably do!
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Does Your Dog Really Need to be Vaccinated?; The Find
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Go With Your Gut: a Probiotics Primer
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Gift Guide From must-have essentials to the fun and fantastic, we've rounded up all our favourite things guaranteed to delight dog lovers! Drool-worthy Collars We've curated a selection of seriously awesome collars!
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Baby It's Cold Outside: Winter Survival Tips
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Can I Crash On Your Couch a While? A Diamond is Forever; Quotable
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Inspiration Cards Spirit elevating pocket-sized cards to stick on your fridge or use as a bookmark.
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The Best Kind of Medicine: Canine Companionship for Seniors Wondering if you should get a dog for an elderly family member? This article may very well convince you to!
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Back From the Brink How one organization is saving the lives of war veterans and shelter dogs, pulling dogs from euthanasia lists and pairing them with former warriors. It’s not only a match made in heaven, it’s a recipe for success. BY NOA NICHOL
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Dogs Who LOVE Snow
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We're Giving it Away! We've got three months of fantastic giveaways, from dog beds to books to getaways, and winners every week!
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Stars, They’re Just Like Us Candid snaps of celebrities out and about with their pups.
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One to Follow Instagram's Gracie the Labrador.
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DIY Craft: Chalkboard Dog Bowl Make these cool chalkboard dog dishes for less than $20!
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DIY Eat: Puppermint Dog Treats Let your pup get in the spirit with these healthy, pepperminty treats just for dogs! BY SARAH DICKERSON
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Connie’s Book Club Curl up with a good dog and a good book. Editor-in-Chief Connie Wilson’s selection of this winter’s must-reads.
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Ask Dog Lady Bothered and bewildered? Crazed and confused? Dog Lady delves into your most dogged dilemmas. BY MONICA COLLINS
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’d like to start off this note with a big THANK YOU. I have so much gratitude for our wonderful readers—you are an inspiration to me in countless ways. Should I ever get downhearted about the direction the world is headed, I simply need to look to our readers for reassurance that the world is filled with inherently kind and caring people. Your love for your dogs and animals in general gives me hope that together we'll counter all the negatives and make the world a better place for all. As you flip through the pages of the Winter issue, you’ll see compelling proof of such goodness and caring. We’ve highlighted some darn amazing dog people making a huge difference in the lives of both animals and people. Take, for instance, Shari Duval. When her son returned from combat with debilitating PTSD, she was determined to help him. Driven by desperation, she turned to his love for dogs, which resulted in her founding an amazing non-profit, K9s for Warriors. Duval’s organization is devoted to saving the lives of war veterans diagnosed with PTSD by pairing them with shelter dogs pulled from euthanasia lists. These dogs, themselves the recipient of a second chance, have an incredible impact on the lives of the veterans they’re paired with, as illustrated by the stories of the three returning warriors we profile on page 96. Then there are terrific organizations such as Senior Dogs 4 Seniors that match golden-aged animals with golden-aged pet parents (p 86). Remarkable “state-of-mind” improvements are noted, with seniors reporting feeling less lonely and depressed. As one such senior puts it, she’s become a social butterfly and has now
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met everyone in the neighbourhood! And that’s not all. We also take an inspiring look at dog fostering. For the unfamiliar, fostering is when you provide a temporary home to a shelter dog while she awaits a forever home. This not only helps the adoptable dog by letting her decompress in a safe, home environment (shelters are stressful!), but it also frees up shelter space to help other homeless dogs (p 82). By fostering you’re saving not one but two lives! As the folks we profile on page 102 attest, fostering is an incredible experience that sometimes results in failure—failure to relinquish your foster dog, that is! There’s the very real risk of falling in love, and really, what could be better than that? In summary: To foster is defined as “to encourage or promote the development of.” It is my wish that the winter issue of Modern Dog does just that, providing the inspiration to pay forward the many blessings we are recipient of. As I hope this issue illustrates, the rewards—love, connectivity, canine companionship, and the list goes on—are great! Wishing you a most wonderful winter season and a healthy, prosperous 2016!
Connie Wilson, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
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The universe is the harmonious interaction of all the elements and forces that create balance and harmony. The word universe literally means “one song” (uni: one; verse: song). In this song, in this harmony, there is peace, laughter, joy, and bliss.
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Kailey Lang grew up on the side of a mountain in British Columbia, and travelled to Ontario to attend college and pursue her dreams. She is now an illustrator living in a small apartment in Hamilton, Ontario, with her scrappy little Whippet/Poodle, Lucy. When Kailey isn’t tripping over dog toys and being harassed for scratches, she is painting the things in nature she loves and creating products for her Etsy shop, etsy.com/shop/KLangIllustration. Turn to page 41 to see Kailey’s wonderful illustration for “How to Get Your Dog to Do As You Ask.”
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