Just like most things in the canine world, you have lots of choices when it comes to training cultures. When you are making decisions for your dogs education, it is best to read about the options before you involve your dog. You as the owner need to make these choices based off of what you…
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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….
Band-Aid Behaviors … they simply don’t work
If you think dogs can be reactive, please note that they have nothing on us humans. We might be the most reactive species there is. Some of us more than others. And it doesn’t bode well for our relationship with our dog most of the time. Handlers that tend to be reactionary to their dogs…
What’s happening with Calvin these days …?
Well Calvin has some fans, followers, and is just a little bit famous around town. As he should be. Quite a few people have been asking about him as of late. It was just about a year ago that I met Calvin for the first time, so weird in so many ways. So an update…
Tuesdays with Calvin – part 10
Calvin and I have known each other almost six weeks now. He is such a cool dog on so many levels, but mostly cool because that is who he is. Just cool! He is happy, he likes being around happy, he likes to work, he likes to hang, and he is giving learning a go!…
Tuesdays with Calvin – part 7
Well thank you all for your wishes, strong vibes, love, and good thoughts. AS FOR TODAY! Calvin’s foster home had some concerns with a local town trail, the amount of traffic, and some blustery moments they experienced with Calvin on that trail, so instead of hitting the University we opted for a Linear Trail walk….
The Education of Mr. Sweet Cheeks, aka Calvin – part 3
Calvin had his first outing with me in my car today. He wasn’t to thrilled with getting in the car, and I could tell that he doesn’t have much car experience, as he sat in back and didn’t budge or make a peep. With all of the ridiculously great dog smells I have in there,…
The Education of Mr. Sweet Cheeks, aka Calvin – part 2
Calvin was ready to go when I arrived, wiggles, wags, licks, and wanted his harness on! We started out and he had AMAZING check ins, kept looking back at me, hand touches, wanted to be engaged, sat easily at the cross walks. He definitely liked his first outing enough to remember what worked for him….
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…
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