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Welcome to Raising Your Paws!
Podcast & Blog
Live More Happily Together by Knowing:
HOW your pets communicate.
WHY they behave the way they do.
WHAT to do in caring for the canine and feline members of your family.
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Latest Episode & Companion Blog Post
(Episode #76) Making Sure Dogs Have Happy Lives & Specialists That Help Pets With Severe Behavior Issues.
Full Show Notes for Episode 76. Intro Timestamps: 00:01 - 01:04 Segment One: 1:06 - 11:35 Do you wonder if your pet has a happy life overall? You can increase their happiness and mental well-being by addressing the core emotions that both you and your pets share. This...
How to Increase Your Dog’s Happiness. (Blog #76)
Get them SEEKING more. This is one of the core emotion systems in your dogs brain. In your's as well by the way. The SEEKING system is a combination of emotions - wanting, looking, curiosity. Overall, it makes us and our dogs feel happy. In this week's episode of Raising Your Paws podcast that you can listen to below, I explain that a path to your pet's happiness and good mental health is to...
More Recent Episode & Blog Posts
Do You Know about the Dogs that Helped on 9-11? (Blog #75)
As I'm writing this blog, on Sept. 8, 2020, it is startling to me to think that the events of Sept. 11, 2001 were 19 years ago. In recalling and paying respect to all those that lost their lives and the people and canines, that worked to save and recover others, on...
(Episode 75) From 9-11: A Secret Service Agent’s Tale of Survival & Dogs That Worked at Ground Zero.
Full Show Notes for Episode 75 - A replay show from September, 11, 2018. Intro Timestamps: 00:00 - 00:58 Segment One: 01:00 - 34:50 First, Dan Hughes, a former secret service agent for the United States was reporting to work at one of the towers on 9-11, 2001 when it...
What Core Emotions Do I Share With My Pets? (Blog #74)
You, dogs and cats (and other mammals for that matter) have the same core emotion systems in our brains. These systems reside in the lower parts of the brain and evoke feelings whose basic, most elemental purpose is to tell us when something is good for our survival...
(Episode # 74) How to Improve Your Pet’s Mental Health & Help for Pets Fearful of Thunder and Fireworks.
Full Show Notes for Episode 74. Title: How to Improve Your Pet’s Mental Health & Help for Pets Fearful of Thunder and Fireworks. Intro Timestamps: 00:01 - 01:13 Segment One: 1:15 - 8:17 Do you wonder if your pet is happy, overall? There is something you can do to...
Figure Out Your Pet’s Age in Human Years -The New Way. (Blog #73)
You’ve heard that for every 1 year of your pet’s life, it counts as 7 human years, right? Well, there's new thinking in this regard that lets you be a bit more accurate. Our pets mature quicker than we do during their early years, so a dog and cat's first year is...
(Episode #73) Top 3 Things To Know About Dogs & Solving Cat Litter Box Problems.
Full Show Notes for Episode #73. Title: Top 3 Things To Know About Dogs & Solving Cat Litter Box Problems. This is a “Best of Podcast” replay show of pillar episode 2. Intro Timestamps - 00:00 - 01:20. Segment 1 - 1:20 - 4:40. Get ready to re-count the age of your...
How To Know If Your Cats Consider Themselves Friends (Blog #72)
There are tell-tale signs that your multiple cats will exhibit that let you know if they consider themselves friends or enemies. Of course, it may be obvious to you that two of your cats are getting along. They play nicely, may groom each other and often will sleep...
Episode #72: How Dogs vs. Cats Cope When Sick & The Signs That Indicate Cats Do or Don’t Get Along.
Full Show Notes. Intro: Timestamps: 0:00 - 1:55 Segment 1. Timestamps: 1:59 - 8:37 When your pet is ill or injured, don’t you wish they could tell you with words how they are feeling? Would be nice, but what we have, is how they react and behave. When sick, dogs and...
How to Adjust To and Train An Adopted Pet. (Blog #71)
Have you ever seen your cat get itself into a dangerous physical situation, that you’re sure is going to kill it, but somehow, they make it out okay? There is the myth that cats have 9 lives, because what else explains the perilous things they do, like leaping madly into the air or falling hundreds of feet and still live to meow again.
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