Julie interviews two of her dog training clients about their experience with their “Taiwan Dog”.  They speak about the unexpected hardship in adopting a feral dog and the challenges she presents to their life.  The dogs are generally described as “sometimes shy of people outside of the pack”, rather than more acurately: “Sometimes deathly afraid of people outside of the pack”.

QUESTION:

Is the best solution to the overpopulation and horrible abuse these dogs face in Taiwan, to bring them to the U.S. and adopt them to families, when we are already euthanizing approximately 4 million dogs/year in this country?

Check out these links!

WA Couple gets married at Westminster Dog Show!  – article

“Dogs Against Romney” set up protest outside Westminster Dog Show.  -video and article

“Dogs Against Romeny” on Rachel Maddow – video and commentary

You can look at the dogs of Three Rivers Rescue on Petfinder.com!

Listen to this sample of therapeutic music!

http://joansorita.bandcamp.com/track/angelic-touch

Contact Joan Sorita online or by phone at:

Check out this story!  Makes my heart hurt for this poor dog, but I’m so glad he was saved!

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2012/01/09/pkg-moos-dog-paddling-survivor.cnn

Today’s Show – 1/4/12 – Aaron Easterly, CEO of Rover.com – a website that connects people and their dogs with in-home petsitters, both professional and “on-the-side”!

FINALLY a place where people can find someone to watch their dog while they are away, where the dog will be in a home!

Watch the original pitch for “A Place for Rover”

December 21st – In honor of “Rose”, author Jon Katz’s dog who recently passed away, I am replaying my wonderful interview with Jon about his most recent book “Going Home – Finding Peace when Pets   Die”.  Find Jon Katz online at www.bedlamfarm.com

December 28th – Enjoy my interview from this summer with Miriam Rose, certified nosework instructor.  We talk about the great sport of nosework and dogs’ incredible sense of smell.  Find Miriam online at www.nwnoseworks.com

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Flip through the pages yourself as you listen to this interview with Brandie Ahlgren, founder and editor of CityDog Magazine.

Just go to www.citydogmagazine.com/blog and find the 2011 Holiday Gift Guide and you can see the items that Brandie and I are talking about!

Coupon Codes mentioned in this show:

www.petplay.com – Code: “REACCH11″ – 20% off

Flash Gordon Designs – Code: “CITYDOG”  - 10% off

FetchTech Leash (fetchtech.ca) – Code: “citydog25″ – 25% off

Today’s show – Dr. Frank shares the findings from a recent study he lead about the psychological trauma suffered by dogs who are breeders for puppy mills, also how to best rehabilitate them and how to stop puppy mills, moving forward.

Find Best Friends Animal Society online at www.bestfriends.org