Good Dog Award Winner – NMSU’s College of Engineering

The Good Dog Blog will be awarding a weekly “Good Dog Award” to those doing good things for dogs. This week’s Good Dog Award goes to three students of the NMSU School of Engineering for building a canine wheelchair for Kita, a 17 year-old cancer survivor.

Why you shouldn’t punish your dog for growling

Are you welcoming a new dog into your family in 2017? Good Dog in a Box is here to help you every step of the way with our Welcome Home series. This week, we’re talking about growling, why growling is such an important communication tool and why you shouldn’t punish your dog for growling.

Good Dog Award Winner – Dr. Marty Becker’s Fear Free Initiative

The Good Dog Blog will be awarding a weekly “Good Dog Award” to those doing good things for dogs. This week’s Good Dog Award Winner is Dr. Marty Becker’s Fear Free Initiative -a revolutionary program to reduce fear, anxiety and stress in cats and dogs.

Reward based training for your puppy is effective, safe and fun

In this week’s Welcome Home blog series, we discuss how using reward based training for your puppy is effective, safe and fun. Using rewards instead of punishments to train your canine companion is not only a scientifically based, proven way to teach commands and modify behavior, it also helps condition your dog to love learning […]

Good Dog Award Winners – Cancer Detection Dogs

The Good Dog Blog will be awarding a weekly “Good Dog Award” to those doing good things for dogs and dogs doing good things. This week’s award goes to Cancer Detection Dogs, an organization in Canada that is training dogs to detect cancer samples. CancerDogs.ca is developing low-cost cancer screening methods that are able to […]