Whole Dog Journal ~ March 2006

Volume 9
Number 3
March 2006

Features
Editorial

March 2006

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Way to Stay
How to produce a completely dependable "stay" in your dog, no matter what the distraction. (Hint: It takes a lot of practice!)

Heartworm: Don’t Take it Lightly
This is one aspect of canine healthcare for which conventional medicine offers the best – and perhaps the only truly reliable – prevention and treatment protocols.

Is Cancer Prevention Possible?
Holistic practitioners suspect that if it is possible to prevent canine cancer, the key will be found in a robust immune system.

Fun Training Techniques for You and Your Canine!
This training technique can be used to get your dog to do just about anything. The best part is, it’s really fun for you and your dog! The shaping process works because behavior is variable. In any series of repetitions of a behavior, your dog will give you variations in the manner that the behavior is performed – faster/slower, bigger/smaller, higher/lower, harder/softer, etc. If you wanted to shape your dog for a perfect obedience competition sit – straight, fast, and in proper heel position — you’d break the behavior known as “Sit” into those three components and work on them one at a time, capitalizing on the variability of your dog’s behavior for each one.

Brains of the Operation
The Tour of the Dog is electrified by a look into the central nervous system.