Links We Like

We don’t pretend to be expert anythings, but we do believe in sharing information that we have found helpful in our daily rescue efforts. Sometimes that information comes from actual experts, sometimes it just comes from trial and error, and error, and error. So consult your veterinarians, lawyers, accountants, and your astrologer before your consider any of this actual sound advice.

Pbbbsttt – you can’t make me!

Behavioral and Training Resources For Kids

• Here is a catchy song about how to speak dog

• Toddlers and dog video is a guide to get other people’s kids to do what you want around your dog.

• This is a great informative video that identifies the dog’s cues and language as the dog is trying to communicate its discomfort with a baby jumping on the dog. It is hard to watch the dog clearly giving signs of distress and the adults ignoring the warning signs. It is easier to watch knowing the dog does not eat the child. What a good dog. If I was the dog, I would have eaten the child and then the parents for good measure.
• “I Speak Dog” body language gallery   (this one is very visual and amazing!)

More For Kids

• How To Meet a Dog
• Be A Tree
• Activities for Children
• From the folks at Doggone Safe: Follow these dos and don’ts to promote child safety around dogs and prevent dog bites
• From Dr Yin:  what NOT to do with your dog and examples posititve interaction as well

Doggie Body Language

• “I Speak Dog” body language gallery   (this one is very visual and amazing!)
• Here is a simple easy to understand link to doggie body language it covers
• Common Stress Signals
• Signs of Arousal

What does all that yawning mean?

• Signs of Anxiety
• Signs of a Happy Dog
• Signs of Aggression
• Signs of Imminent Bite
• Bite Prevention
• Why Dogs Bite
• How To Meet a Dog
• Be A Tree
• Activities for Children
• More doggie body language videos here
• Photo illustrated behavior manual (we love this book!)

• The Center for Shelter Dogs’ resource library – great training tools for common problems
• One of my favorite sites: Dogs out Loud
• The Dogs Out Loud behavior resources page
• How to break up a dog fight via ASPCA advice
• Just for fun – dog personality test
• Free downloadable Ultimate Puppy Guide
• More Free puppy training books LessonsFor My Puppy

Are you ready for a dog?

• • Things to consider and ask yourself before getting a new dog

• • Budgeting for your dog

• • Your Pets Your Responsibilities – animal law

• Things to consider about store bought puppies vs shelter animals.  Of course, we vote for shelter animals.
• A few breeds British Vets urge you to avoid

You just adopted a dog, now what?
A great Dogs Out Loud article about how to prepare to bring your new dog home and what to do when they get there.  The article covers a lot of concepts that will help your new dog transition successfully.

• Compilation of House training tips from the AVASB (American Veterinarian Society of Animal Behavior)
• Housetraining tips from the Human Society
• A great potty training video from Larry Krohn (Don’t take the off leash advise out in public in an urban area – it’s against the law)
• Potty training tips from Wikihow
• Free downloadable Ultimate Puppy Guide
• Maddie’s Fund young Puppy Manual
• More house training tips from OSU
• General puppy training

Crate Training

• Crate training tips from the Humane Society

Muzzle Training Tips

• Videos from The Muzzle Project
  • https://muzzleupproject.com/muzzle-training/
• Video from The Good Dog Training
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f31iKi2kvQ&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1XTpMBWWPXNDjE2ABLmfV5F5vlZgZYQb_NxwBQNKaxVZSvbChauvRTYs0

Dog Food

• Find best food for your dog using the info provided by the dog food advisor website
• Dry dog foods recommended by the Whole Dog journal

• Excellent link on how to find a dog trainer
• Our favorite behaviorist: Nelson Hodges

• Suzanne Clothier
• Patricia McConnell, PhD.
• Grisha Stewart
• Nicole Wilde
• Dr. Sophia Yin  (We love her)
• Karen Pryor – clicker training
• Ian Dunbar, PhD.
• Nelson Hodges
• Solid K9 Training | Jeff Gellman – great free resources as well as training classes and board and train
• The Good Dog Training and Rehabilitation  | Sean O’Shea

• Urban Herding
• Dog Scouts of America
• Agility Training
• Therapy Dog service

• Dr Sophia Yin on teaching your reactive dog to move past distractions on a walk
• Dogs In Need Of Space (DINOS)
• The Yellow Ribbon Campaign – When you’re out on a walk, does your dog sometimes need to stay away from other dogs? If you saw a yellow ribbon tied to the leash of a dog, would you proceed with caution and give the dog some space?
• The Yellow Dog Project ( similar to yellow ribbon)

• Links to low or no cost spay and neuter resources
• Information on when to spay

 Low Cost Vets and Services

• Links to low cost services, heartworm preventative, flea meds etc.

Heartworm information

• Links to Dallas area emergency veterinarians
• ASPCA Animal Poison Control
• Basic Emergency First Aid for pets

Emergency and Disaster Preparedness

• Preparing to take shelter and emergency and disaster preparedness
• Safety Pack with ID stickers for first responders to know that animals live in your house

• Breed specific and rescue groups
• SPCA of Texas
• Dallas Animal Services / city animal shelter

• Fence and landscape options for all types of escape artists dogs.
• Link to husky proof your yard. If you can keep in a husky, you can keep anything in. Great roll bar trick for climbers.

• What to do if you have lost your dog  from wikihow
• What to do if you have found a dog from Petfinder
• Gypsy Dog Ops link to what to do if you find a lost dog
• Humane Society link on what to do if you find a lost pet (without getting in over your head)

Shelters usually have a place to post pictures of lost and found dogs on a physical  bulletin board at the shelter as well as online

You can also post a free lost/found ad online at:

http://www.petfinder.org/
http://www.lostandfound.com/
http://www.missingpet.net/
http://www.petharbor.com/

• Link to what to do when you see a loose dog, an aggressive dog or dog pack

What to do if you have been bitten by a dog

• File a report with the city of Dallas
• Dog Bite Victim Support

Animal Laws

• http://www.dallasanimaladvocates.com/dallaslovesanimals/how_you_can_love.html
• http://www.dallasanimalservices.org/pet_laws.html

• Report crimes or abuse to the SPCA of Texas
• Report crimes or abuse to the City of Dallas Animal Services
• Report illegal vending of animals

Dog Pack and Feral Dog information
Feral Dog information

• Off leash dog parks in the city of Dallas
• Guide to Dallas’ Best off leash dog parks

End of Life Decisions and Support

• A wonderful blog post from Notes of A Dog Walker: “How to Talk to Your Gynecologist about Euthanasia”
• Resources to help figure out when it’s time, including the “Quality of Life Scale”:
  • The “HHHHHMM” Quality of Life Scale by Dr. Alice Villalobos
  • Minimizing the stress of euthanasia by Dr. V of Pawcurious
  • How to say goodbye by Dr. Andy Roark (with other ways to measure quality of life)
• SPCA of Texas Pet Grief Counseling 

Educators and Volunteers

• The Blue Dog Curriculum
• Dog Gone Safe –  bite prevention through education
• RedRover Readers
• Kind News Magazine 
• The Restricted Adventures of Raja Empathy App

• Dallas Companion Animal Project Flyers
• Red Rover  – additional resources for emergency needs
• Pet foostamp program  -temp assistance with feeding your animals)

Wildlife Issues

• 911 Wildlife  residential, commercial, and educational
• DFW Wildlife Coalition
• Bat Conservation International
• What to do about wildlife displaying symptoms of rabies or distemper