Learn to improve your dog's behavior

Cesar Millan is highly respected for his unique insight into dog psychology and shows us how we can lead our dogs to behave and obey through our own confident energy, body language and positive reinforcement.

In this Cesar Millan's Mastering Leadership series, Cesar gives you the tools to understand your dog's instincts, and how use them to develop and reward good behavior. The result is a healthier, more rewarding relationship for both of you.

Volume #1: People Training for Dogs
Cesar explains how your own calm assertiveness can have your dog willingly and happily respecting your command. He shares his persuasive and at times humorous insights on dog (and human) behavior.

Volume #2: Becoming a Pack Leader
Dogs don t relate to us as humans. They relate to us as dogs. By working directly with actual cases in home settings, Cesar illustrates the importance of becoming their dog's pack leader.

Volume #3: Your New Dog: First Day and Beyond
Many people choose a dog based on the breed. Cesar explains how the breed merely represents a set of skills, and that all dog behavior can be improved with proper energy and body language.

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Sugar Glider

Anytime I see a unique pet, I'm always intrigued...usually to the point of wanting one. At a recent pet expo, I came across a dealer selling Sugar Gliders. What are Sugar Gliders? According to Pocket Pets of Dallas, Sugar Gliders are small, aboreal marsupials which originate primarily from Indonesia and Southern Australia. As their common name implies, they possess a gliding membrane (similar to that of the flying squirrels) that stretches from their wrists to their ankles and allows them to 'glide' from tree to tree. As with all marsupials, female sugar gliders also possess a pouch, in which they raise their young. Sugar gliders are nocturnal animals, which spend almost their entire life in trees.

Sugar Gliders can make excellent pets. They adapt very readily to captivity and can develop very strong relationships with their human keepers. They are small in size, and are very intelligent and love to play. They are very smart and have a long life span, most living to be 10 years or older if taken care of properly. Although nocturnal, it can be a benefit, in that they want to play in the evening when you are at home, and if you take them with you in the daytime, they are content to sleep in your pocket or pouch. Most gliders, if handled well and given time, learn their owner(s) scent(s) and have absolutely no fear of them.

Their diet consists of fruit, fresh vegetables, wholemeal bread, yogurt, peanuts, high protein dry food, and supplemented occasionally with mealworms, meatmeal or hard-boiled eggs.

According to the company, they get along well with other household pets...though I'm worried my dogs might think of them as another new toy.

Dog Halloween Pictures

Decor for dog lovers

Are you a true dog lover who wants to make a statement at home?

Do you want to treat your canine best friend to something special and out of the ordinary?

Osborne and Little fabric design company has launched a dramatic tongue in cheek design called Best in Show as part of their Walk in the Park Collection. It consists of silhouettes of favorite dog breeds flocked in black on to a cotton and silk ground of creamy white or mid-brown.

Let you imagination go with this one - you could even use the paper to decorate the dog's house.

McCain Leads Ohio's Litter Box 'Kitty Caucus'

To put it in a tasteful way, a vote in Ohio is determining which White House hopeful is the pick of the litter. The ballot boxes are cat litter boxes in the 2008 ''Kitty Caucus'' being conducted by the Capital Area Humane Society in Columbus and local radio station WBNS-FM, known as Mix 97.1.

The presidential preferences of the animal shelter's feline residents are being determined by their ''votes'' dropped into a red box for Republican John McCain and a blue one for Democrat Barack Obama.

The radio station's Web site calls the Kitty Caucus ''a political movement that really counts.''

Perhaps thankfully, the site doesn't go into detail about how the votes are being counted. But it says McCain was leading Thursday by a close 50 to 49.