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Slate and Apollo Playing

May 312016
 

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 May 31, 2016  Posted by roland at 7:05 am Tagged with: Apollo, captivity, lion, lions, play, playing, puppy, Slate, tervuren

London and Roland playing around…

Aug 192015
 

Just for fun, here is some video of me and London wrestling and playing last week…

 

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 August 19, 2015  Posted by roland at 12:30 am Tagged with: london, playing, roland, wolfdog

Sufi the Grizzly Bear

Aug 192011
 

Some of you might enjoy this video of a young grizzly bear playing, socializing, and training:

 

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 August 19, 2011  Posted by roland at 11:09 pm Tagged with: baby, bear, bears, cub, grizzly, playing, swimming, young

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    • Contextualizing Loss
    • Education Protects Against the Vagaries of Life
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    • Emotional Baggage
    • Anthropomorphism
    • A Note to Parents
    • One Perspective on the TMZ video from filming “A Dog’s Purpose”
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    • Independence Day
    • The Forest For the Trees
    • Stochastic Shit Happens
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    • Why I will not go see “Noah”
    • Should Joe Breed his Dogs?
    • Animal Abuser Registries: Helpful or Harmful?
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    • Should You Get a Wolfdog?
    • Lessons from the Black Rhino
    • Quest One Year Birthday Video
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    • Leaving Your Pet at the Vet
    • A Letter to Breeders
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    • OR HB4021
    • Canine Auditory Sensitivity
    • Carpe Diem
    • What Do I think about the Dog Whisperer?
    • Zanesville Ohio
    • Maximize Pet Longevity
    • Wild Lion Documentaries
    • Sufi the Grizzly Bear
    • Unpredictable?
    • Precision in Language and Quotations…
    • Examining the Canine Good Citizen Program
    • Helping Your Dog Learn to Love to Swim
    • Resource Guarding
    • A Challenge: Organize an Animal Lovers’ Day in your State!
    • Are Animal Actors Paid More Than Human Actors?
    • Maximizing Puppy Potential
    • Dog in a Hot Car
    • Neotoma cinerea
    • The Greatest Music Video Ever: OK Go White Knuckles Dog Video
    • Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road (Dog Trainer Version) by Roland Sonnenburg
    • Titan the Tiger at Home
    • Happy Birthday “Litter of the Law”
    • New Stamps Promoting Adoption
    • When Animal Trainers Die
    • Spring is here! And so are fleas and ticks…
    • Captive Orcas Swimming in Urine
    • The Rainbow Bridge, or not…
    • Happy Holidays!
    • Titan the tiger comes to visit
    • Winter Dreaming
    • Veganism: Some Love, But Little Policy
    • Flint is 16
    • Celebrate Challenge in a Life of Leisure
    • Walking Tillie Down the Rio Grande
    • Early Morning Pavlov
    • Crates and Cages
    • SB303 Committee Speech
    • Should you “clip” your dog to help it stay cool during summer?
    • Antelope and elevators…
    • OR SB391 First Legislative Session Summary
    • In Support of Animal Rights
    • Animal Training 101
    • Where to get your next dog
    • Oregon HB2470 First Legislative Session Summary
    • 2009 Oregon Legislative Session: Bills Negatively Impacting Animals
    • Do Exotic Animals Make Good Pets?
    • I Used to Love Animal Planet…
    • Dressing your Pet is Wrong…..Or is it?
    • The day Saga did not swim…
    • The Marley Fallacy
    • Dog Fighting Busts and Due Process
    • How did the desire to save animals go so wrong?
    • Fencing Thoughts
    • Animal Rights: What Everyone Needs to Know
    • Captivity: Good or Bad for Animals?
    • Keeping your Pet Safe
    • Dogs Who Bark in Cars
    • Socializing Your Puppy
    • Helping a dog who fears slick floors
    • Tillie and the Doggie-Door…
    • A lovely training session using the Least Reinforcing Stimulus technique
    • Our Canine Osteosarcoma protocol
    • Housetraining your puppy
    • Knowing when it is time to let go an old pet
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    • Teaching Bite Inhibition
    • Conditioning your dog
    • Optimal Nutrition for your Dog
    • Vaccinating Dogs for Optimal Health
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