Full of Sit

06/30/2024

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06/24/2024

Just realized I didn’t post these from a couple weeks ago! Drake got some more wall candy with a total of 2 first place, 1 second place and a third place ribbon…not too shabby for the old man!
Tora is coming around nicely; she’s finally getting that ADHD dutchie brain under control and brought home 2 first place and 2 third place ribbons!

06/23/2024

Level 1 exercises…
Loose leash walking, Sit at your side, Down at your side, transition from down to a sit, recall to a front, climb for 3 minutes. Sounds easy right?
Notice though that the dog holds its positions until told not to. No sitting then laying down on its own after 10 seconds. No breaking it’s sit or down when the owner walks around the dog. As they say…the devil is in the details or if you’re a foodie; the proof is in the pudding!

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06/16/2024

Just awful. Shame on this person. They don’t deserve to own a dog and they sure have no business training or having custody of anyone else’s dog!

Barbie is gone. She passed on April 16, 2024 with suspicion of heatstroke. She suffered great amounts of neglect at the hands of Ally Gibson.

I do not agree nor support Ally’s actions and have remained silent publicly until I had as much truthful information possible as to what happened to Barbie.

Security footage showed Barbie along with the rest of Ally’s dogs including Sinatra were left in a hot car for over 13 hours overnight and until 1pm in the afternoon the next day in 88 degree heat while Ally slept inside an AirBnB near Cadiz, KY after UPDIF. She was not pottied, given water, nor was the car running with A/C. The doors were cracked open.

After driving away, Ally said she smelled p**p and pulled over at a Loves gas station. Ally said she checked on Barbie, that she was alive but her eyes were glazed over and she was covered in her f***s. Ally said she went inside Loves to buy herself a drink and food. When she came out and checked on Barbie again, Barbie had begun seizing. Ally claims to have taken her out of the crate and put her under the non potable water hose in the Loves gas station to try and cool her off.

Unfortunately, for Barbie it was much too late and she had passed away at that time. Ally at the time said no vet nearby can do a cremation. She later said she did not have enough money to get a necropsy so she took her to a crematory to be cremated instead. Location of crematory is unknown. I have contacted and updated Barbie’s breeder personally so she can know the full truth of this situation.

Due to the sensitive nature of the investigation going on, this is all I am able to share. If anyone has any other information I urge you to come forward at this time.

For those who I know will wonder and ask - I was over 2 hours away on set with my cats. I had left early that morning with my animals from the AirBnB where we had stayed.

I am still mourning the loss of Barbie, especially with all the new information I received around the circumstances of her passing. Please refrain from messaging me unless you have first hand facts that will assist in an animal cruelty case against Ally.

May Barbie run free in puppy heaven, never to know pain or suffering again 💔 Gone too soon, but forever in my heart. April 1, 2023 - April 16, 2024.
Justice for the Dogs BHM

06/16/2024

Guys before kids vs. guys after kids!

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there that wouldn’t have it any other way!

06/14/2024

Who wants to see a video on teaching your dog their name? (Obviously for people that have a new dog!)

06/12/2024

Nailed it!

06/11/2024

Prison update incoming! Until then I’m just gonna share this!

Treat delivery day for the prison training program! Taking in 4 cases of Happy Howie's Natural Dog Treats. Turkey, beef, and lamb! 🤤

06/11/2024

Teach them to speak, then teach them to be quiet! If you know, you know!

06/11/2024

Let’s talk transport!
When we transport dogs (clients and our personal dogs) they always ride in a crate.
We don’t do the leash handle in car doors thing that we see people do. We don’t do free range dogs in the vehicle thing. We don’t do the harness clipped into the seatbelt thing. A dog on a leash flopping around in the vehicle during a crash will still be injured and is at greater risk of fleeing the crash. Check out the pictures below of a friends vehicle after it was struck by someone who ran a stop sign. Notice the intact kennel? A picture is worth a thousand word

06/10/2024

How do you know someone doesn’t understand dog nutrition, basic dog care, or rewarding a dog during training?

When they say “OMG! You gave the dog people food!” 😂

06/09/2024

Gonna be competing in this frizz event at Midsouth Disc Dogs today!
What are you doing with your dogs today?

06/04/2024

Went to the big house today! How’d it go?
Ellen Weedman says it is a success!
All the dogs have made big big improvements in behavior issues and are progressing through the obedience requirements fairly well! Another couple weeks and their stay at the big house will be done; they’ll get paroled to their halfway houses (foster homes) and eventually become model citizens of society!

05/30/2024

Why is it when I see people rehoming their dogs they’re saying things like “They are too rambunctious, they need a home with a big yard so they can run!”
It’s never “They need to be trained and managed properly and I won’t take the time to do it!”

05/28/2024

When someone thinks they’re bragging about their German Shepherd Dog and says “My dog is 150 lbs of pure muscle!”

05/26/2024

He knows pig latin and cow latin 😂

85 likes, 3 comments. “Dog speaks farm animal”

05/26/2024

Splish Splash!

05/25/2024

05/24/2024

The weekly challenge needs 7 new followers in the next 3 days!
Can we do it? Yes we can!

05/23/2024

Gettin jiggy with it!

05/22/2024

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎

Ellen Weedman

05/22/2024

Anyone else? 😂

05/22/2024

Bighouse adventures went fairly well today. There are 4 teams of 2 people each(a trainer and a helper for each dog).

Team coffee- Rocked their one minute sit away from handler perfectly. Didn’t lose any points !

Team Daisy Mae- Surprisingly did very well on their one minute sit as well, they did lose 2 points for a simple trainer/handler error but the dog did exactly what she’s supposed to do !

Team Cotton- Cotton did well and his trainer did well! He held his sit for the whole 1 minute but unfortunately got up as his handler was returning to him and failed (talk about a close call though!)

Team Mercedes- Mercedes made a slight mistake and broke her sit after about 1 second(she’s a bit of an airhead and was likely daydreaming about chasing birds) Her handler immediately tried again and this time Mercedes was paying full attention and knocked it out of the park! Unfortunately I have to be fair across the board so it was still a fail but I’ve got a sneaky feeling next week will be a lot better!

Now if you’ve been keeping tabs and following the betting you’ll remember that coffee was my pick to do best in this group. I’m sticking to that.
I think Mercedes is gonna be the real underdog of the group though; even though she’s failed 2 weeks in a row. She’s shown that she has a brain and she’s got a good trainer to help her figure it out!

Daisy Mae and Cotton are currently battling it out to see who’s NOT gonna be the dunce in the class. It’s a tough call. Cotton is a smart dog but has an inexperienced and somewhat unmotivated trainer. Daisy Mae is all brawn and no brains but has a slightly more seasoned (although super empathetic) trainer. All I can say about Daisy and Cotton is “May the odds be in your favor!” 😂

05/21/2024

Y’all know what day it is!