Category: Featured
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What Does Nature Have To Do With Border Collie Behavior?
The Genetics Shaping Border Collie Behavior Border Collies were specifically bred for intelligence, speed, endurance, and sensitivity to movement. These genetic traits were purposefully selected to create dogs who excel at herding and working in partnership with humans, making their behavior distinctly different from most other breeds. Features such as the Border Collie “eye” (intense…
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What Is the L.E.G.S.® Model? A Beginner’s Guide for Dog Owners
The L.E.G.S.® Model is an innovative, scientific based approach to understanding dog behavior by looking at the whole dog, not just their actions, but the full story behind those actions. L.E.G.S.® represents “Learning, Environment, Genetics, and Self”, and each part plays a critical role in shaping how a dog interacts with the world and the…
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How L.E.G.S.® Helps Us Uncover the Root Causes of Dog Behavior
Uncovering the root causes of dog behavior is all about seeing the whole picture, not just the result of a dog’s actions, but the story behind them. That’s why I turn to the L.E.G.S.® Family Dog Mediation model for every behavior and training case, whether I’m working with a Border Collie puppy or consulting with…
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12 Alternative Lifestyle Brands We Love
The Nautilus was steadily pursuing its southerly course, following the fiftieth meridian with considerable speed. Did he wish to reach the pole? I did not think so, for every attempt to reach that point had hitherto failed. Again, the season was far advanced, for in the Antarctic regions the 13th of March corresponds with the…
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The Power Of One
For no monarchy is so absolute, but it is circumscribed with laws; but when the executive power is in the law-makers, there is no further check upon them; and the people must suffer without a remedy, because they are oppressed by their representatives. If I must serve, the number of my masters, who were born…
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The House On The Borderland
Right away in the west of Ireland lies a tiny hamlet called Kraighten. It is situated, alone, at the base of a low hill.