Dog Training….Unraveled

Huh?

“Is your dog housebroken?” “Ya, he’s great, only sometimes he still barks at people at the door. But I think that’s because he’s a dog and stuff.” True story.

Bear update

Some of you may remember my first post about Bear who came for some basic education about life. Great news, he did lovely. He ended up spending about three and a half weeks here and learned all sorts of good stuff, all the basic commands and important things like Fire Hydrants Will Not Kill You! [...]

Natural Nibbles – yum!

We recently received a sample packet of Natural Nibbles to “test” and the beasts love ‘em!! A nice little treat without wheat, corn, or soy, it is one that goes nicely with our efforts to feed more natural, high quality foods. It comes in four different flavors – salmon, chicken liver, and two types of [...]

The Real Reason

One of the things they tell you to look for when hiring a professional trainer is what titles that trainer has achieved with his or her own dogs. I don’t have many – Redwood, Rowan, and Jester got their CGC’s, which is a pretty basic, easy title to get. Never got around to it with [...]

Pets are Neat

So this morning I finally finished walking everyone, cleaning the bird cages and cat boxes, feeding the beasts, and all the other general care that gets done every morning and I sit down to eat my breakfast. Kid you not, before I even get the first bite in my mouth, Karma starts sputtering and chop [...]

June

Hmmm, somehow I managed to completely lose June. Somehow it slipped by without me even noticing. I can’t tell you what I did really, except I’m pretty sure I walked a lot of dogs and cleaned up a lot of poop. Yippee. Already the 4th has come and gone, hope you all had a lovely [...]