Dog Training….Unraveled
So, I joined a dog training club last month, to, you know, train my dogs. “But aren’t your dogs already trained?”, you ask. Why no, no they are not. A fact that was made blatantly obvious to me when I joined the club and asked my dogs to perform a simple stand for exam. Hahahahahaha! [...]
Posted on March 15th, 2009 by michelle
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Every now and again I still get calls for dog training. Mostly everyone knows I’ve retired, but since I’ve had the same phone number for 6 years or so, there are still a few cards floating around out there. I got one this morning, from a guy with a new puppy. I called him back [...]
Posted on January 2nd, 2009 by michelle
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Ah, well, the reason I do rescue work is to give back. Dogs have supported me my entire life, so I feel it is my duty to give something back. But oh man, is it ever frustrating. I only do rescue work in addition to training, there are people out there who rescue is all [...]
Posted on August 10th, 2008 by michelle
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Wags was somewhat of a disappointment this year. Yes, there were extenuating circumstances, the fair extended it’s dates, which threw the horsepark out of whack, which in turn simply knocked Wags off the calendar. I know the organizers scrambled to find a venue large enough to accommodate all the activities and vendors and did the [...]
Posted on August 1st, 2008 by michelle
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“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.
Posted on July 31st, 2008 by michelle
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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! He [...]
Posted on July 28th, 2008 by admin
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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 [...]
Posted on July 25th, 2008 by admin
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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 [...]
Posted on July 10th, 2008 by michelle
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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 [...]
Posted on July 8th, 2008 by michelle
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Well, as my “official” retirement date draws nearer (July 1st), I find myself piling on the work. This is difficult, because I really don’t know how to not work. I have a dog here for two weeks of training, another two showed up today to board till Saturday, and yet another comes on Saturday for [...]
Posted on June 24th, 2008 by michelle
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