Keep the Tail Wagging, An Online Magazine for Dog Lovers

I want to introduce Alycia Neighbours to Keep the Tail Wagging!  Alycia is a blogger I connected with over photography and an amazing writer and will be able to teach us a lot about children and dogs.  She’s the author of  Amazon’s Kindle Marketplace Best Selling grief books “Deciding To Dance” and “Wake Up In The [...]

photo: Doctor Noe Okay, I’ll admit it.  I would love to meet Cesar Milan. I have a confession to make.  We’ve been watching the Dog Whisperer.  It’s not my fault.  My boyfriend sucked me in, because he watches it every now and then and I love the stories of difficult dogs and their humans being [...]

“Have you ever had one event … that was disguised as ordinary but as it unfolded it turned your heart causing you to question all that you believed in? I had one; it spanned eleven years and began with a bouncy, crazy-eyed cattle dog named Woo.” ~ Conversations with Woo, Facebook Page If I were [...]

photo: overgraeme I believe in the Law of Attraction.  Remember “The Secret” craze from a decade ago (I think) when everyone was asking the Universe for money and weight loss?  Well, that’s the commercial version (my opinion) of Law of Attraction.  My version is this… Galatians 6:7-8: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for [...]

It’s National Dog Training Month! photo: Aggarwal_Gopal p> Dear Poncho, I’m a female 10–month-old puppy with a curious heritage that may be a Lab/Chow mix, although I look like an Australian Shepherd. I have TONS of energy, and my favorite games are digging holes, destroying plant life, eating the laundry off the line, chewing up [...]

photo: yannick974 Have you heard of Tellington TTouch or TTouch?  I was first introduced to it when we hired our amazing dog trainer (and behaviorist) Shannon Finch.  She gave me a worksheet showing different techniques and displayed each one.  On each training session, she asked me to show her my technique and would make adjustments [...]

If you’ve been reading Keep the Tail Wagging for a while, then you may know that we have three dogs; they’re all sleeping around me like a Bermuda Triangle of black dog hair as I type. I consider myself a fantastic dog owner and Fur Mom, but I’m not perfect and I’ve made several mistakes [...]

Did you know that you can break your wrist easily on a dog walk?  When I was having a training session with Rodrigo and our trainer, Shannon Finch, she noticed that I would wrap the leash around my hand and wrist.  She told me that if Rodrigo saw a rabbit and lunged, he would take [...]

I have unintentionally offended many dog owners and I always want to tell people that we should trust a dog owner to know his/her dog.  Each of our dogs deal with strangers differently so I’ve become adept at helping each dog cop with strangers.  Some people misinterpret my unwillingness to allow our dogs to interact [...]

photo: Lel4nd Getting older means that I have to work a little harder to keep it light and tight; but I’ve accepted that I’ll quit the gym so I don’t bother to sign up for a membership in January.  Being a little more realistic, each year I make the resolution to Stay Positive, to Stay [...]

photo: fstop186 There are tons of training treats on the pet store shelves and I only chose Bil-Jac training treats, because I remember that our dog trainer was using liver treats.  I got lucky, because in the environment of tainted treats, I stumbled upon an affordable product that our dogs love, it’s Made in the [...]