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This page seems to have some useful advice: http://www.usask.ca/wcvm/herdmed/applied-ethology/behaviourproblems/anxiety.html I think we'll try this advice:

Our 10 month adopted golden retriever is doing great with the training we've been giving her the past six weeks. She behaves very well most of the time. However, she seems to suffer from separation anxiety when we are away because when we come back she will often have destroyed something - most...

I just read this article about the dangers of heat stroke: http://dogs.suite101.com/article.cfm/dogs_and_heat_stroke And now it has me worried about the fact that I take water away from my dog at night (between her last walk in the evening and her first walk in the morning). We live in...

The problem with some of the advice here about not letting the dog off the leash is that it just isn't practical with a large golden retriever. She is a big dog and needs LOTS of exercise. I can't run fast enough to tire her out. The only way to do so is to let her run free. I also take her on...

Thanks. This is all useful advice.

I recently took over ownership of a 9 month old Golden Retriever. I live outside the US, and there are no dog-training courses I could attend, so I have been teaching myself. I have found Gerilyn J. Bielakiewicz's "The Everything Dog Training and Tricks Book" to be very helpful, and she is...