Monthly Archives: February 2011

Do you have a great photo of your pooch? Enter the Bonner County Daily Bee’s Pet Pic’s Voting Contest that has cash prizes for the winners! Follow the link to look at entries or to upload your own photo. You must be a Bonner County resident and have your photo in by 5:00pm Feb. 22. There is a $10 fee but don’t worry, a portion of the proceeds go to Panhandle Animal Shelter.

Every year Canis Film Festival awards $500 dollars for informative and innovative videos made by people like you and me. In order to enter you need to be familiar with clicker training and their judging criteria:
Clarity of teaching process and methods
Innovation in the end behavior and teaching approach
Entertainment value
Use of positive training principles, especially those using operant conditioning and a marker
Usefulness to target audience
Production quality

You can go to their website to see the top 5 videos and vote on the best!

Here is a book that anyone who has ever enjoyed a connection with animal, whether it was simply making eye contact with a wild bird for a fleeting instant or living life with multiple pets, will enjoy and learn from. This is a book about understanding dogs and helping people deepen their relationships with their own canine companions. In it Suzanne not only allows the reader to have confidence in their intuition, she demonstrates how listening to ‘the still small voice’ leads to a relationship based on trust. In dog training it is easy to believe that your dog should do everything you ask. It is funny how we get a dog for a relationship but so often when we train force and science take over. We all know that relationships are two way roads with give and take. When on a date do you demand certain behaviors? Do you expect your partner to do the dishes everyday whenever you happen to ask? Just like we have respect for other people, Suzanne explains, if we respect our dog’s needs we will be on the right track for learning the dance steps that express our foundational desire to love and be loved. Listening to your dog will prevent breaking his trust. It will allow you to both become more in tune with each other resulting in a harmony that speaks of your childhood dog, the one you never had to ‘train’, the one that just understood you, a dog that you love and loves you without restraint…

“Montana’s premier winter sporting event is the Race to the Sky. Celebrating our twenty-fifth year, we are recognized as one of the most challenging and beautiful sled dog races in the world. It is an unusual test of physical power, mental toughness, teamwork, and the special bond between man and animal. Working together, they negotiate the trail through Montana’s scenic Rocky Mountains.” A Montana Tradition… Check out their great website here.
Follow your favorite musher by GPS! There are two junior mushers you might be interested in:
JOSI THYR, Cataldo, Idaho
GARRETT WARREN, Council, Idaho

People in the Sandpoint / Coeur d’Alene have their options! Up north the Panhandle Animal Shelter is having a party at the Laughing Dog Brewing Co. Tasting Room. There are two events going on in Coeur d’Alene: one at Cricket’s downtown Bar & Grill and the other is at Fedora Bar & Grill! Check out the calendar in the right side bar for more information ——>
Click here to watch a video by Reuters on the Westminster!
Click here to go to the Westminster Kennel Club website.
Make a comment if you know of any other parties!