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246: Reading Dog Body Language to Reduce Conflict

Peggy Rew is our guest on this episode. Peggy Rew is a professional pet nanny, published wordsmith, copy editor, and pet care educator. A pet rescuer since the ‘70’s, Rew has touched the lives of more than 4,000 animals: dogs, cats, horses, goats, reptiles, llamas, fish, bunnies, and birds, etc. Her penned creations include poetry, short stories and hundreds of published articles.

You may reach Peggy at: [email protected] or at 775-830-0982

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/m.peggy.a.rew

Time Stamps - 

0:00 Introduction

1:00 Introducing Peggy

1:40 Dog Safety Activity Books

2:15 Activity Books

3:15 Consent & Agency - Why they matter

4:10 Eating

5:15 Resource Guarding

7:30 Dogs deserve respect too

9:00 The Nose Knows

12:00 Bites are very rare

13:00 Strategies to keep little fingers away from dog mouths

18:30 Dogs are family

20:20 Who is your dog?

22:30 Fireworks

24:00 Preparing our dogs

27:00 Lobby for Silent Fireworks

28:08 Would you miss the “booms”?

32:00 More on Dog Safety Activity Books

40:00 Does “Dog Bite Prevention” turn people off?

42:00 Kiss to Dismiss - The Kindest of Corrections

44:00 A time out can be a real gift!

45:00 Bite Prevention doesn’t really land well

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