The lifestyle magazine for modern dogs and their companions SUMMER 2011
BOOT CAMP Reform School
Does Your Dog Make You Feel Guilty?
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Ease your conscience p 105
15 Great iPhone Apps
Rose McGowan
Vintage Dog
On rescue & her love affair with the Boston Terrier
Dogs & Jealousy
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DIY COLLARS & TREATS CROSS-BORDER RESCUE “BREEDIST” DOGS THE PEMBROKE WELSH CORGI
Small Dog Syndrome E MORGROOVY GIVEAWAYS!
WHO’S YOUR DADDY? MAGNIFICENT MUTTS P 60
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FEATURES 22
On Dog Training Who’s training whom? BY WILLIAM
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Surf’s Up Sweet ideas for summer fun.
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88 It All Started With a Little Bug Actress Rose McGowan on her unplanned love affair Doggone Smart Apps with the Boston Terrier. An exclusive interview. 15 great iPhone apps for dog lovers. BY MARY-JO DIONNE 32 Doggie Boot Camp: Reform School For Dogs 105 Does Your Dog Make You Feel Guilty? Awakening the kindly drill sergeant in you. Ease your conscience with these easy to implement BY STEVE DUNO tips. BY JENNIFER MESSER 30
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We’re Giving It Away! Three months of amazing giveaways are up for grabs.
44 Vintage Dog Woofstock festival founder Marlene Cook shares her favourites from her remarkable collection of antique canine-curios. BY ROSE FROSEK 48 From California, With Love A cross-border rescue mission rehomes death-row dogs. BY COREY VAN’T HAAFF 54 60 82
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The Genesis Awards Celebrating the organization that celebrates the media that celebrates animals. BY MARY-JO DIONNE
THE GOODS 43
Sweet Summer Scores Keep it cool with these seasonal must-haves.
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Best Buys Fab finds under $25.
Jealousy 121 Dogs and the green-eyed monster. BY STANLEY COREN Who’s Your Daddy? Magnificent mutts. Try guessing the unusual parentage of these striking mixed-breeds. PHOTOGRAPHED BY TANYA KING 26 Freestylin’ A canine-freestyle newbie and her “exuberant” dog test their skill—and the instructor’s patience.
Hardcore Players Toys to love “furever.”
BREED PROFILE
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The Pembroke Welsh Corgi By Appointment to Her Majesty the Queen. BY MARIAN BUECHERT
LIVING
43 BODY AND SOUL 66 Meet My Personal Trainer—Rex Canine Cancer Support Poolside Pooches Cranberry to the Rescue 68 Canine Conditioning Equipment First Aid for Lawns The Band Perry’s Double Dog Dare 70 Go Organic Shave and a Haircut? Timely Health Updates Hot Wheels 72 The Doctor’s In Tips for treating arthritis. 74
The Cancer Diet Fighting back with food. BY ELIZABETH PASK AND LAURA SCOTT
43 REGULAR FEATURES 6 Editor’s Letter 8 Contributors 10 Our Readers Write 14 The Scoop 23 Calendar of Events 24 Smile! Photo Contest 129 Marketplace
COVER LOOK
Actress and Boston Terrier advocate Rose McGowan with her rescued Pomeranian, Sasquatch. Photographed by Kharen Hill. Hair by Cole Herrara. Makeup by Sarah Uslan.
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Stuff We Love Modern Dog staffers’ picks of the litter.
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Modern Dog’s Cutest Couples Our favourite Cutest Couple photo submissions.
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D.I.Y Eat Hot dog, cool treat. Whip up these sweet or savoury pupsicles in mere minutes.
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Small Dog Syndrome Dealing with a Napoleon complex.
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Listen: NEema + Elsa Your summer soundtrack: an up-and-coming singer/ songwriter’s tribute to her dog.
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More Embarrassing Moments Your dog did what? Cringe-worthy canine escapades.
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D.I.Y. Craft: Barkin’ Blooms Embellish your dog’s collar with a bloom. It’s a snap!
BY ROSE FROESEK
BY COLLEEN SAFFORD
102 An Insider’s Guide to Dog-friendly Seattle Hotels, parks, even bars—we did some sleuthing for the inside scoop on Seattle’s top dog-friendly stops. 110
“Breedist” Dogs Can a dog dislike a certain breed?
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Fireworks Fear Calming and desensitizing dogs terrorized by fireworks and thunder.
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Wading Through Water Worries Teaching water-reluctant dogs to swim.
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Art Attack Melissa Ferreira’s “pets,” sculpted of paper and other repurposed material, delight. BY MARNI WEDIN
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Connie’s Book Club Curl up with a good dog and good book. Editor-in- Chief Connie Wilson’s selection of summer beach-bag worthy reads.
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Ask Dog Lady Dog Lady delves into your most dogged dilemmas.
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Last Lick : A Monkey to Love An adoption story.
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BY NICOLE WILDE
BY TEOTI ANDERSON
BY MONICA COLLINS
BY NATASHA NIKKEL
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s many of you know, there’s a new dog in my life: Penny, a Wirehaired Dachshund, a rescue of around six years of age, not to mention my very first “small” dog. Always having had big dogs, I’ve found my small dog to be quite a different experience. I still get out for my thrice-daily dog walks, but Penny needs to be coaxed out if it’s rainy or cold. If we happen to miss a walk, she isn’t jumping out of her skin as my previous dog, Kaya, a rambunctious Weimaraner/Pointer cross, who passed on at the ripe old age of 16, would have been. Comparing Kaya’s hyperactivity, separation anxiety, and excitable barking with Penny’s low exercise requirements and quiet demeanour makes them seem polar opposites; however, now that I’ve had Penny for six months, I’m noticing some similarities between how they react to and around me. It was my daughters who first voiced it, saying that Penny seemed to have a growing need to be close to me. I attributed this to anxieties resulting from her past life as a kenneled breeder’s dog, but could this foreshadow separation anxiety issues or other developing problems arising from a “nervous” personality? Or—yikes—could I somehow be creating this behaviour? As I sat contemplating these thoughts, a book entitled Your Dog Is Your Mirror by veteran dog trainer Kevin Behan crossed my desk, capturing my attention. Unlike the alpha/dominance model espoused by the likes of Cesar Milan, or the positive reinforcement approach that uses rewards to effect desired behaviour, Kevin proposes a new training modality based on his belief that a dog’s behaviour is driven by our emotion. He believes that dogs don’t respond based on what their owners say or do, but rather to what they feel. Thereby, as our emotional mirrors, our dogs offer insight into unresolved issues and ourselves. Further, Kevin proposes that
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dogs’ cognition is a function of emotion, particularly the emotion that forms the group consciousness within a pack, whether a wolf pack or human/dog pack. He believes that much of the problematic behaviour that develops in dogs can be resolved through this new model of understanding dog cognition. His theory, developed over 30 years of training (oftentimes involving the rehabilitation of aggressive dogs) opens the door to a whole new world of communication and understanding between species, and, really, a whole new understanding of ourselves. Reallife examples drawn from three decades of dog training bolster this revolutionary philosophy. I found it a fascinating read, one that has certainly gotten me thinking. I think the insights I’ve gained from it will assist me in all my relationships, both canine and human. If you’ve ever thought your dog mirrors you, you’ll definitely want to delve into this book. In fact, I was so taken with Kevin’s approach, that we’re introducing him as a new Modern Dog blogger. Be sure to check out his blog, “The Emotional Dog,” on moderndogmagazine.com. In keeping with this exploration of dogs and emotion is Dr. Stanley Coren’s fascinating look at dogs and jealousy on page 54 of this issue. From there, flip to page 95 for advice on dealing with Small Dog Syndrome. Try your hand at guessing the parentage of the unusual mixed breeds in “Whose Your Daddy?” then browse on over to “Vintage Dog” (page 44), in which Woofstock festival founder Marlene Cook shares her favourites from her antique canine curios collection. And that’s not the half of it. The lovely spitfire, Rose McGowan, known for her indie movies and her love of Boston Terriers, invites us into her gorgeous LA home for an exclusive photo shoot and talks dog-love, rescue, and Marilyn Manson. Plus, we’ve got three months of great giveaways, a cross-border rescue recount, and, inspired by the recent royal nuptials, we profiled the Queen’s favourite breed, that low-to-the-ground charmer, the Pembroke Welsh Corgi. This issue is just jam-packed with goodness in celebration of summer, from the best iPhone apps for dogs lovers to fun DIY projects (pupsicles, anyone?) and “barking bloom” collars that can be whipped up in a snap (page 100), and so much more. Have a wonderful summer, everyone. Here’s to the dog days!
Constance Wilson Publisher and Editor-in-Chief What I’ve learned from a life in dogs is that nature conforms to the power of desire.—Kevin Behan, Your Dog is Your Mirror
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Kathryn MacNaughton was a girl that liked art. In fact, she liked it so much that she decided to make art for a living. She’s now a happy artist living in Toronto. Her mixed media work combines collage with hand-drawn elements, and she’s inspired by imagery from her collection of vintage magazines. Words and symbols are important elements in her art, which is often a reflection of the subconscious mind. She shares that “the characters I create are a way of unleashing my true self.” From this assertion and her illustration for Modern Dog in this issue (page 82), could we infer that she has a sublimated desire to try her hand at canine freestyle dance? The choice of the verbage “unleashing” certainly seems to hint so.
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