Is Your "Untrainable" Dog Just Super Smart? + Why Your Senior Dog Seems To Be Having Puppy Problems
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Is Your Dog Trying To Tell You Something?
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WHY GROWLING IS GOOD ADD THESE THINGS TO YOUR DOG'S DINNER CANDID CAMERA: STARS & THEIR DOGS A NATURAL FIX FOR SEPARATION ANXIETY
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Is Your Dog Super Smart?
Find Your Match! Is the Poodle, Basset Hound or Portuguese Water Dog the breed for you?
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Is Your Dog Trying to Tell you Something? How dogs tell us what is happening in their world.
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Why Growling is Good Growling is meant to avert aggression, not cause it, but many owners misunderstand and correct their dogs. Here's why you should make sure you're not one of them.
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Get Inspired! These Entrepreneurs Turned Their Love of Dogs Into Careers They Adore
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Best Beds Options abound and all dogs have different preferences. Here's how to choose the right bed for your dog.
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Listen To Your Heart Ahead of the curve: Mutts comic strip creator Patrick McDonnell has spent the last 20 years promoting animal adoption—and he’s not prepared to stop there.
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Seven Ways to Transform Your Relationship With Your Dog This bond-based training approach can powerfully change the way you connect with your dog.
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A Survivor's Story Gillian, a gentle Tosa (Japanese Mastiff) mix survived the dog meat trade. Read her story and find out how you can help end this barbaric practice. BY POOJA MENON
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How to Assess Your Dog's Cancer Risk Prevention and early detection can save your dog's life! Here's what to look for. BY DR. RODNEY PAGE
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How Chiropractic, Acupuncture, and Massage Therapy Can Dramatically Improve Your Dog's Life Alternative therapies are increasingly being used to offer relief and even restore the mobility of dogs suffering chronic conditions. BY YVONNE ZACHARIAS
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BY NICOLE WILDE
PHOTO SUZIE KIXMOELLER
BY STANLEY COREN
BY J. LESLIE JOHNSON
BY ANDREA QUERIDO
BY JENNIFER ARNOLD
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Why Your Senior Dog Seems to Have Puppy Problems Is your senior dog suddenly turning into a problem child? Here's why this is happening and what you can do about it!
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Passion Project The adoption of a rescued Pit Bull led our Star Dog contest winner, Laura Morgillo, to her life's purpose.
BY TEOTI ANDERSON
BY ROSE FROSEK; PHOTOGRAPHED BY RICHIE SCHWARTZ
BODY & SOUL 78
A Natural Way to Address Separation Anxiety The CBD's found in hemp might just be the solution you're looking for!
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G.I. Woes How to know when a gastric upset warrants a trip to the vet.
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Use Your Voyce; The Find; Bark Back: Modern Dog Poll
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10 Reasons Why Turmeric is Good for Dogs
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Words of Wisdom Pocket-sized inspiration cards to stick on your fridge or use as a bookmark.
BY CONNIE WILSON
BREED PROFILE 26
Your Perfect Breed Match Is the Portuguese Water Dog or Poodle the dog for you?
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The Basset Hound Easy-going, laid back, charming—there's much more to the Basset than those seemingly sad eyes. BY KELLY CALDWELL
THE GOODS
LIVING 12 Playtime Fails Try as they might, these dogs find playtime a tad challenging. 34
Stars, They're Just Like Us! Candid snaps of celebrities out and about with their pups.
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DIY Eat: Fall Flavours to Perk Up Your Dog's Dinner Perk up your dog's dinner with these healthy fall toppers!
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Tula the PhoDOGrapher This GoPro-wearing rescue dog offers a smile-inducing dog's-eye view into dog park hijinx, one that captures the joyousness at the heart of our best four-legged friends.
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We're Giving It Away! We've got three months of awesome giveaways, from toys and jackets to beds, supplements, and more!
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Doggy Décor Must-haves for the design obsessed dog lover.
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How to Properly Bathe Your Dog Make bathtime easier with these dos and don'ts.
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Perfect Presents Great gift ideas for everyone on your list!
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Stanley's Smile How an English Bulldog with a cleft palate is making a big difference. BY NOA NICHOL
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Back-to-School Boredom Busters Keep your dog busy and engaged with these fun, mentally 104 stimulating finds!
REGULAR FEATURES 6 Editor’s Letter 8 Contributors 10 Stuff We Love 14 The Scoop 20 Smile! Photo Contest 125 Marketplace
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Say hello to Wolfgang, aka Wolfie, a mixedbreed cutie from Phoenix, AZ! Photographed by Esther Choi. “I am a pretty mellow mushroom who loves to accompany people, whether it be to the bathroom or out on the town. Find me on Instagram @wolfiethefoxdog!” F AL L 2016
Last Days Saying goodbye to a beloved dog. BY CATHY MAYRIDES
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One Dog, Three Artistic Takes We tasked three pet portrait artists with capturing the same dog. Check out the results on page 104!
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Your Disobedient, "Untrainable" Dog May Be A Super-smart Evil Genius
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Human & Hound A photographic celebration of a bond like none other.
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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 fall's must-reads.
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Last Lick: How I Met My Dog BY ALEE PASQUALOTTO
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EDITOR'S LETTER
Great communication begins with connection.
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’ve been reflecting a lot on successful relationships and the very important role communication plays. If there's blocked communication, a relationship can quickly become troubled. Most of us realize that to have good relationships with our friends and family we need to be able to effectively communicate, but for some reason we often fail to apply this same thinking to our relationships with our dogs. Our dogs are family too and it's equally important to be able to effectively communicate with them for the sake of everyone’s happiness, as well as for a harmonious home. Of course, interspecies communication is more challenging as we don’t share a language but our dogs help us out. They are continually observing and interacting with us and, though it may not always seem like it, they aim to please. Since they can't verbalize their feelings or wants, we owe it to them to pay close attention to understand their needs, intentions, and the motivators behind certain behaviours. Whether the cause behind a particular action is mental or physical—say, sudden unrest and anxiety caused by an impending thunderstorm or the onset of a slight limp caused by physical discomfort—paying attention allows us to deduce what’s going on and intervene appropriately. Your dog's body language can tell you a lot about what he's thinking and feeling. For instance, does he hold his tail upright and rigid when an unfamiliar dog approaches? Is he standing tall with hackles raised? He's likely making himself look bigger and more imposing, which is perhaps not dominance, as many assume, but rather a fear-based behaviour. Esther, Modern Dog's Miniature Dachshund displays this behaviour when larger dogs approach, in an effort to make herself look bigger. Knowing what she is—and is not—comfortable with allows
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us to prevent altercations (she’ll get snippy if her boundaries are crossed). And what about growling? Most of us have been led to believe that growling is bad, but not so. Find out why you should never stop your dog from growling on page 32. And these aren’t the only ways dogs communicate. In this issue Dr. Stanley Coren explains how dogs have evolved to actually "show" us what they consider to be interesting or want (p 28). Tapping into our dogs’ desire to please and their ability to communicate with us is Jennifer Arnold, the Executive Director of Canine Assistants. On page 62 she explains how you can powerfully change the way you connect with your dog through her bond-based training approach. The first principle? Helping your dog feel secure and loved. Makes sense, doesn’t it? And that’s not all! This issue is chock-a-block full of boredom busting toys to keep your dog busy and mentally engaged (p 27), the best beds for every type of dog (p 56), fun photos of celebs out and about with their pups, tips for those of us with super seniors, and so much more! From how to identify your dog’s cancer risk to fall flavours to add to your dog’s dinner (yum, squash!), we’ve got you covered! Wishing you the best of the season, romps through the fall leaves and Netflix marathon sessions, dog on couch, included! Much love,
Connie Wilson, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
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A word nerd, book warrior, and baking addict, Andrea Querido's early childhood fear of dogs was successfully squashed when her family got a spirited yellow Lab, Dakota, who lived to the wise age of 14. This led her to welcome a feisty and headstrong Frenchie, Penelope, into her family in 2013, and life has never been the same. She wouldn't want it any other way. For this issue, Andrea Querido chatted with the amazing Patrick McDonnell, creator of the wonderful cartoon Mutts, about his Shelter Stories series in promotion of pet adoption. You’re going to want to read this story (page 58).
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