A young waterfowling friend recently got a German shorthair and asked me what kind of upland shotgun he should buy so he could take his dog hunting. I said, “That’s the wrong question. You’ve already ...

Sassy, a 5-year-old Siberian husky, wore an electronic collar on a recent visit to the Connors Bog dog park in West Anchorage. Sassy did not respond when her owner, Gina Azzam, called her to come back ...

This post is in response to What and Who Dogs Want and Need: Love, Not Shocks By Marc Bekoff Ph.D. Members of ESVCE [European Society of Veterinary Clinical Ethology] strongly oppose the use of ...

Castle used e-collars with his police dogs and also taught classes for pet owners on how to train dogs using only treats and praise. Those dogs made slow progress, he said, and his clients rarely ...

Fairbanks North Star Borough Animal Control Commissions took a first bite at a proposed ordinance that would allow electronic collars as an option on Monday. Assemblymember Tammie Wilson sponsored the ...

A substantially changed ordinance to gradually allow e-collars as an option of restraint in the Fairbanks North Star Borough made it out of the dog house after the Animal Control ...