If you would like your pup to enjoy his or her daily walks while hanging with us at Wag Zone, it's that time of year again - time to renew your dog license. After January 31 only those dogs wearing a valid 2009 Dog License will be permitted to be walked off-site.
 
Why a License?
If you own a dog in the City or District of North Vancouver*, you are required by law to get it a license. Beyond being the law, it's added protection for your pet. Dogs who get lost and are not wearing a license have a much more difficult time being reunited with their owners. Finally, your licensing fees go towards helping less fortunate pets stay safe and find loving homes.

Licence Fees

Renewing Online
To make it easy, both the City and District of North Vancouver offer online dog license renewals, so if you have received your renewal notice and have your account number and a credit card, simply click below and get your pet set for the New Year:

City of North Vancouver Dog License Renewal
District of North Vancouver Dog License Renewal

Renewing In Person
If you wish to license a new dog or renew your existing license, you may also do so in person:

City of North Vancouver
City Hall - 141 West 14th Street
Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 5:00pm
604-983-7316.

District of North Vancouver
District Hall - 355 W. Queens Road; or
District Animal Shelter - 299 Mansfield Pl

Licence Fees

* Dogs residing on native land are not required to be licensed. Please provide proof of address so we can note it on your dog's file.

Austrian researchers reached this conclusion by testing pairs of dogs to see how unequal treatment affected their tendency to co-operate.

Sure enough, giving one dog a treat when its friend doesn't get one leads the friend to reject the researcher's next request, a form of resentful behaviour.

"It was not the presence of the second dog but the fact that the partner received the food that was responsible for the change in the subject's behaviour," the team, led by Friederike Range of the University of Vienna, reported in a paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Recent studies of human behaviour suggested that unequal treatment may affect how people look at co-operating. Experiments with monkeys showed that they often went on strike by refusing to participate or ignoring lower-valued rewards - a kind of envious behaviour - when they were treated unequally.

Range, two colleagues from the university and one from Austria's Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, set out to try the experiment with dogs.

They took pairs of domestic dogs, and asked them to give their paws. They varied the circumstances and rewards to see how the changes affected the outcome. But in the key experiment, one of the pair was rewarded with a piece of sausage or black bread for presenting its paw, and the other wasn't.

The dogs that weren't rewarded reacted by making the experimenter ask repeatedly for the paw, and eventually refusing. But unlike monkeys, the quality of the reward - sausage, a superior treat, and black bread, less so - did not affect the dogs, the report said.

 

Are you interested in learning techniques that can have a significant and positive impact on your pet's health?

AnimalTalk is a unique and holistic approach to your pet's health and well-being that directly involves the owner or even the entire family in the sessions.

Based on the BodyTalk system, AnimalTalk sessions balance the general body/mind energy of your companions, addressing physical, emotional and behavioral concerns, while being safe, non-invasive and very gentle. Building on the bond that exists between you and your pet, these sessions complement your animal's current veterinary care by accelerating physical healing and alleviating such issues as stress, fear, separation anxiety and undesirable behaviors.

When people first use the AnimalTalk Access program, they notice changes in the general health and stress status of their animal companions. Sometimes the changes are dramatic, i.e. a highly agitated animal calms down immediately. Sometimes the improvements are gradual and do not register for a number of weeks, i.e. an animal's severely itchy skin becomes healthier and the animal ceases obsessive scratching habits.

Led by a certified BodyTalk practioner, the AnimalTalk Access Seminar is a 1 1/2 day workshop that will teach you 5 simple techniques and a "Fast-Aid" procedure designed to bring about significant improvement in any animal's heath.

For more information on BodyTalk and AnimalTalk Access, visit http://www.bodytalksystem.com/.

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If you are interested in attending or learning more about this upcoming seminar, please let us know via email at info@wagzone.ca.