Long Beach animal control workers, assisted by LA Animal License Inspectors, will be canvassing door to door to check up on dog (and cat?) licenses.

Here is part of the news release:

“Our 5 lb. and 28 lb. Sweet Potato & Chicken Dry Dog food, manufactured on December 17, 2009 with a “Best By” date of June 17, 2011 is being voluntarily recalled. A random sampling of this product tested positive for Salmonella by the FDA. In my mind, I asked, “How can this happen? I spent over $900,000 putting in our laboratory to test our products before we release them.” We tested samples from the production run when it was manufactured six months ago, and the results came back negative.”

You can read the rest here:

http://www.naturalbalanceinc.com/letter_from_president.html

Believe it or not, having your dog’s attention is not the same thing as getting your dog’s attention.  The former is much more important than that latter.  More often than not, if you have the first part, the second part falls into place without much work.  The other way around is much more difficult.  In today’s show we discuss why having your dog’s attention is better, and the ways to make that happen.

The inspiration for this show was seeing a couple’s dogs loose and running through a gas station on a very busy corner in town.  In watching them try to catch their dogs, the various methods they tried, the threats, the cajoling, and their fear and frustration, not to mention that of the dogs’, we thought we should cover things you can do in those situations that make it more likely your dog will come back to you, as well as things that may push them away.