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Many people got pets during pandemic, but if not trained properly developed behaviour problems

CBC News · Posted: Jul 19, 2021 8:02 AM ET | Last Updated: July 20

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A northern Ontario pet rescue group says it’s had to start turning away unwanted dogs that were adopted during the pandemic. 

Many people got pets during the pandemic, but Jill Pessot, director of Pet Save in Sudbury, says if they weren’t properly train or socialized it likely led to anti-social behaviour in the dogs, and now their owners don’t know what to do with them.

Some are posting online to try to sell their unwanted dogs. 

“If you’re looking for a dog this year on the net — and there’s a bunch of them on there — be careful because there’s a reason they’re on there. If every [dog] was a perfect dog, they wouldn’t be on the internet,” she said.

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Other owners are surrendering their new pets to shelters or rescue groups like Pet Save

“And now they’re coming into rescues because people, number one, couldn’t even enlist trainers for a while or didn’t know when to enlist that trainer,” Pessot said.

There are eight dogs in the Pet Save kennel with behaviour issues, where they normally only have one or two. 

Pessot is getting calls daily about owners wanting to surrender animals to her, and she’s having to turn them away.

Patience and proper training helps 

Many pet issues could be solved with patience and a good trainer to help.

Jacqueline Preyde is founder of Canine Intuition Training and Rehabilitation, a dog training service in Sudbury that specializes in behavioural correction. 

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Her biggest piece of advice to new dog owners is to crate-train their pooch.

“Crate training is a very useful tool, especially in a time where dogs are very dependent on their owners,” she said. “If you create the crate as a safe space it really helps with the transition with then having to leave the home.”

Preyde also suggests giving the dog something to lick or chew before you have to leave them at home by themselves. That provides mental stimulation and a distraction.

She warns new dog owners to do proper research on the breed they’re considering and methods for correct training, adding there are lots of great resources online.

“When it comes to certain behaviours though, I’m adamant about reaching out to a professional, just because we see a lot more anxiety and reactivity nowadays than we used to,” Preyde said. 

“We just see a lot of people that don’t understand the magnitude of what a certain breed or what a puppy requires anymore.”

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By Zachary Rosenthal, AccuWeather staff writer

Updated Jul. 27, 2021 9:04 AM PDTCopied

A person uses an umbrella for shade from the sun while walking near Pike Place Market, Tuesday, June 29, 2021, in Seattle. The unprecedented Northwest U.S. heat wave that slammed Seattle and Portland, Oregon, moved inland Tuesday — prompting an electrical utility in Spokane, Washington, to resume rolling blackouts amid heavy power demand. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

No other region in the country is warming faster than the western United States when it comes to increasing daytime highs, a trend that became apparent with the unprecedented and record-shattering heat wave that took over the Pacific Northwest earlier this summer.

Heat has been building all across the west this year. In June, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California all had record heat statewide. Salt Lake City had its warmest June in 74 years of records with an average temperature of 80.2 F, which is 8.6 degrees Fahrenheit above normal.

Seattle finished the month of June more than 5 degrees above average, while Portland, Oregon, closed out the month an astonishing 7 degrees above average, with the heat killing hundreds in the United States and Canada.

As a continent, North America experienced its hottest June in recorded history last month.

AccuWeather meteorologists explained five reasons for the heat across the West this summer.

Ongoing drought

Much of the Southwest, central Rockies and northern Plains were facing a severe drought, while pockets of drought also existed in the Pacific Northwest. The Southwest, in fact, has been in “decadal, long-term drought,” according to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Paul Pastelok.

Drought conditions across the United States in mid-April, with severe to exceptional drought encompassing much of the Southwest. (U.S. Drought Monitor)

Drought in the spring helps to enhance the risk of extreme heat and drought in the summer due to a positive feedback mechanism. Since there is little moisture in the ground, more of the sun’s energy goes directly to heating the surface, drying out the surface even more.

Lack of monsoonal rain last summer

Monsoonal moisture provides key rainfall for the Southwest, and that moisture was greatly lacking in both 2020 and 2021. In the summer of 2020, the position of the upper high-pressure area over the Southwest was nearly stationary, causing prolonged heat and high evaporation rates that led to expanding drought conditions.https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=ADL1374184317

In 2021, precipitation shut off in the late winter and spring, speeding up snowmelt across California and the interior West, which set the stage for the extreme summer heat. Monsoonal rain has come back this summer with deadly force across the American Southwest.

La Niña

In a typical La Niña pattern, storms during the western wet season, which runs from October to April, tend to shift farther north, allowing points to the south to dry out. These impacts took hold in the latter part of the wet season, with dry conditions causing higher evaporation and creating higher pressure aloft, resulting in a stronger heat dome.

This year, though, the high pressure that typically builds over the Southwest was stronger in the West and helped to send record heat into the Northwest, northern Rockies and western Canada.

Above-normal water temps in the northeastern Pacific

Water temperatures may have also helped to play a role in causing intense heat in the West. A large area of above-normal sea-surface temperature anomalies has stretched across the northeastern Pacific near the West Coast this summer.

Map showing unusually warm sea-surface temperature anomalies (temperatures compared to normal in degrees Celsius) as of July 24, 2021. (NOAA)(NOAA)

“What this may have done is pulled the upper high pressure farther west most of the time (during the extreme heat in late June over the Northwest), which led to the intense heat in the western U.S. and western Canada,” Pastelok explained, describing the formation of a heat dome which helped to trap heat in the western U.S. and western Canada.

Climate change

Over the last 30 years, the greatest warming in terms of maximum temperatures in the months of June and July has occurred in the western United States, meaning that the record warmth these past few months is not terribly surprising.

The average summer temperature in Portland, Oregon has increased by 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit in the past 50 years. (Climate Central)

Increased warming in the region will help make a typical heat wave in the Pacific Northwest even worse. One recent study found that June’s heat wave would have been “virtually impossible without human-caused climate change.”

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A study predicted that if the world’s economy and population continue to grow at their current pace, natural resources will run out within 20 years.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF   JULY 25, 2021 15:13

Car pollution(photo credit: REUTERS)Advertisementhttps://a787e037d6243c0c04ba899d111a4413.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.htmlA recent study based on computational models claims that within the next decade, global human welfare will begin to decline.The study was written by Gaya Herrington, a sustainability and dynamic system analysis researcher at the consulting firm KPMG, and published in the Yale Journal of Industrial Ecology. According to the study, simple supply and demand raises the following problem: If the world’s economy and population continues at its current growth rate, the world’s natural resources will eventually run out. Then, the economy and population will begin to shrink in order to match its supply.     A groundbreaking MIT study in 1972 titled “Limits to Growth” (LtG) was the first to try to solve the problem based on empirical data and computational analysis. The 1972 study created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production based on used data from many fields, including population, fertility rates, pollution levels, food production, and industrial output.

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