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FOOOOD TUUUUBBEE!
A few years back, my dear friend Casey Lomonaco (of Dogster's Behavior and Training blog) sent me a prize package that included this small plastic tube-like item. Little did I know that this item would become a favorite training tool in my house (and one I was so...
Rio… you're walking home!
Sorry for the lack of content the last two days... I do have a post written but I just have to share this... experience with you. I figure I write posts with either serious information or serious stories and I want to give you all a chance to laugh at my expense. As...
You know you are a dog trainer when…
Text-free Thursday? Cinco-de-May siesta? After a bit of a crazy evening with classes and three dogs who haven't had their typical amount of exercise for four weeks due to near 20 consecutive days of rain, I am not feeling the whole writing a blog thing. I'm tried,...
Be an advocate for Fido!
Well, I had this great post written about how you should go about greeting dogs you are unfamiliar with ...but my good friend Casey Lomonaco KPA wrote a lovely post about that topic today. So, go check out her Behavior and Training blog about how to greet an...
Space Saver…
Alright, this past weekend (well, Friday/Saturday) I attended full-day dog behavior seminars with Sarah Kalnajs. I need today to "digest" everything, but tomorrow (hopefully), I'll post about the experience... so hang on! Happy Training!
Fat Fido to Fit Fido
Alright, so you gave your dog a once over and have discovered he is not as lean as he could be....now what? Well, that sort of depends just how much extra weight your dog is carrying. If your dog packed on a pound or two of winter weight (for a medium sized dog),...
Fit Fido or Fat Fido…
Fit Fido or Fat Fido About two years ago I had Shayne at a park hiking when I was approached by a woman and her lab. As she approached I began shoveling food in Shayne's face to keep her from being too concerned about the lab. Out of absolutely nowhere, this woman...
Root of handler frustration…
Today I took the dogs to the farm again. We are supposed to have wicked afternoon storms for the next few days so exercise must be done in the morning and the farm is one of the ways the pups get knocked out for a long time on not too much exercise (only two hours at...
My apologies… again
Alright, I've dropped the ball ... again (it was a sad hockey night). I find myself exhausted after a ridiculously busy day (and of course the hockey game) and unable to commit to writing a post and searching for and putting together a spiffy photo/title thing for...
Well, that's not entirely true…
This is more of a personal rant I suppose, but it's something I've heard a few times recently and it started to bug me and I just want to get it off my chest. Since the weather has turned nice, I've stared to bike with the dogs again and I've overheard some pretty......