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As Good As Gold – Golden Retriever Rescue of Illinois

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Spring Membership Meeting

Join us for this year’s As Good as Gold Spring Membership Meeting on Sunday, March 22 at Two Brothers Round House in Aurora, IL.

New this year: your dogs are welcome to come along and enjoy the day with us.

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Collars and Harnesses

Prepare your dog and yourself before heading out to explore the great outdoors, which includes other pets and their people. For you: Wear your most comfortable shoes. What should your dog wear?

First, a dog trainer will tell you that pulling is a learned behavior. No piece of equipment is going to solve behavioral issues.  It’s important to teach your pet the impo...


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Winter Activities and Enrichment

Indoor fetch: Make use of the “get it” and “drop it” commands! Have your pet fetch a soft ball or special toys.

Indoor hurdles: Attach a rope, perhaps a jump rope, to opposite sides of a hallway (or your own set up.) Start low and gradually increase the height. Instruct your dog saying “jump” or “over.” First show them how to do it. If...


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Anxious and Fearful Dogs

Some of our readers may have attended the As Good as Gold training seminar held this past September by then Education Coordinator, Stephanie DeCicco. The feedback from that seminar indicated some participants would be interested in learning more about how to deal with anxieties and fears in their dogs.

Hopefully readers who have recently adopted, are fostering, or have...


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Understanding how behavior works
Classic Conditioning

Also known as Pavlovian conditioning or associative learning, both terms for what happens when an animal learns associations among things. Classical conditioning is also known as “muscle memory” or “habituation.”

For instance, your dog knows you wear a particular pair of boots when you go out hiking together. So every time you go get those boots, y...


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