Trade Secrets Series – because it is time …

As a Holiday gift, from me to you, I will be sharing, releasing, and spilling the beans with some of my PUPPY CLASSROOM TRADE SECRETS. From Family Pet Owners to Professional Trainers, you’ve all been banging down my door, calling at all hours, stopping me in the grocery store, and have been wanting to know,…

Strategies for dealing with off-leash dogs in on-leash only areas

You are trying to do the right thing. Following the signs and the rules. Walking, training, and spending quality time with your dog. Enjoying the day, the weather, the simple pleasure of movement. And then you see an off-leash dog coming your way with an owner making no effort whatsoever to call their dog back….

the quick fix, the magical pill, the wonder watchamacallit!

When I was working as a Pastry Chef, (by default because I was a Baker), I had this one customer who would come into the restaurant pretty much weekly, and have one of the servers come and ask me if I could ‘whip him up a Grand Mariner Souffle’. My response to the server to…

Top 10 tips – for families with children and puppies

2013 DWAA nomination for ‘Excellence in Single Blog Post’ Out of all of the things that I am, all of the hats that I wear, being a mother to my children and animals is first and foremost. I have been raising babies, children, and now teenagers, with our puppies and dogs, for almost a decade…