4H Katama Cowpokes (left to right) Emme, Wren, Charlotte, Penny, go for a walk with a willing Bingo.

Cattle respond to non-verbal signals. Dogs are the same. When training your dog, patience often works better than too many words.

Carole and her dogs, Joy and Flora, enjoy a bike ride in Acadia National Park. How does she keep them from pulling her over? All it takes is: “pop pop”

Flora (right) and her pal, Joy, hang out with the cows at Miles Smith Farm in Loudon, NH.

For now, Cody, wears a muzzle when he’s around my livestock.

Retirement for Carole means closing the Miles Smith Farm store on Dec 28 and working with dog owners who want their loved pups to be better family members.

Just as 2-month-old Owen threw a tantrum, dogs do the same thing. A dog might pull and snap when corrected, but within seconds, he'll get the idea and do what you want if you know Dog-speak, an essentially non-verbal language.

Cody, a formerly ferocious pit bull, has a quiet moment with Winston, one of my Scottish Highland calves. Cody is now gentle around my calves but still wears a muzzle in case he gets loose and falls back into learned behavior and chases one.

What happened when a 9-year-old reactive pit bull came to my farm?

Coaching gives you the tools to deal with the death of a loved animal.