by Dee Hoult | Dec 19, 2016 | Dog Training
The best way to prevent behavior problems is to prevent them. The easiest way to enforce house rules for a new dog is to use a leash indoors for the first week your dog comes home. Your dog should always be supervised while on leash, or should be secure in a crate at...
by Dee Hoult | Dec 5, 2016 | Dog Training
“Honestly she should just re-home the dog. In different hands, he would totally succeed, but I really don’t see this family being able to turn it around for this dog.” “Yeah, sometimes people can’t accept that they don’t have what a dog requires.” That is a...
by Dee Hoult | Nov 1, 2016 | Dog Training
Sometimes the most frustrating and difficult behavior problems get solved with the most simplistic training methods. Methods which, I charge over $100 an hour to teach! No matter how long I train dogs and their people there are still so many human students who fail in...
by Elise Lorenzo | Oct 1, 2016 | Dog Training
To celebrate, we want to bring recognition to what these dogs do for their handlers on a daily basis and what we as dog owners/lovers should do when we come across one! What is a Service Dog? A service dog is a dog that has been specifically trained to perform a task...
by Elise Lorenzo | Sep 1, 2016 | Dog Training
It’s Saturday afternoon and you’re at a crowded farmer’s market. There are people moving, shopping, laughing, children running or playing, you stop to look at a booth and as you do, you take a step and feel your leg touch something. You turn to say sorry but it turns...
by Dee Hoult | Aug 23, 2016 | Dog Training
Several years ago I blogged about how to introduce dogs the right way — slow and steady. Why is it that we humans don’t apply the same relationship principles to our dogs as we would to meeting a new person? Just because two dogs are social dogs...
