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Suddenly you’re in a strange part of  town. Nothing is familiar to you. Smells, sights, sounds are all unknowns. Still, it’s better than being where you were – starved, beaten, freezing cold at night and chained to that tree. You run through the streets looking for help, but everyone avoids you. They pretend they don’t [...]

Perhaps you are aware of the recent seizure of 28 dogs  by Fort Worth Animal control on July 8 of this year. Among the greyhounds and greyhound mixes was a lone Saluki hound, the oldest domesticated dog breed. STOLA Saluki Rescue rescued him and named him Vincent. Vincent arrived at STOLA on July 8, starved, [...]

Excerpted from Only Angels: How to Raise and Train the Perfect Sighthound
Copyrighted, Cherie Fehrman 1998 and 2010. All rights reserved.
The more pesticides you use, the more fleas you get. There are four universal truths with regard to insects:
1.    Bugs will eat.
2.    You cannot eradicate every single insect.
3.    Pesticides will ALWAYS eventually backfire because the insects [...]

Conventional harsh training methods can be extremely detrimental to the sighthound or shy dog personality, sometimes even ruining the dog permanently. Affection Training–a method of communication where human and dog learn to interact together, to learn a common language, and to complement one another–is the perfect solution for these gentle temperaments.  You obviously want the [...]

If you use monthly spot-on flea and tick products on your dog you  may want to rethink that. The EPA has just sent an alert that these products may not be as safe as first thought. In 2008 there were over 44,000 bad reactions and 600 deaths as  result of these products. For  more information [...]