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08/24/2022

Enjoying some cooler weather with Bebe!

08/19/2022

Handsome boy Murphy learning to relax on command!
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08/12/2022

Bebe the puppy has arrived for her board and train! She’s a crazy puppy here to learn some manners.
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08/12/2022

Murphy the began his training program a few days ago. He’s here to learn some new commands, how to not pull his mom over on walks, and become a well-rounded gentleman!
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08/12/2022

Gorgeous girl Ruby the heads home this weekend. She’s a wild child who loves to run, fetch, and tug. She may be a little too smart for her own good, but when she puts her mind to something, she excels!
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08/12/2022

is wrapping up his board and train program! He’s going home with a little bit more manners and skills. He’s come a long way from becoming dead weight when he didn’t want to do something, to being enthusiastic to work!
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07/18/2022

When you go to work, or run errands, or go out for the night, how do you leave your dog? Do you tell your dog how much you’ll miss them and that you’ll be back soon? Say I love you a million times?

How about when you come back home? Do you greet your dog before you greet your spouse? Do you get your dog revved up and excited to see you?

On the outside, this seems harmless. You love your dog and you are equally excited to see them after a long day. On the inside though, saying our hellos or goodbyes could be hurting our dogs.

Think about it- when we get our dogs excited and then just leave, what are they supposed to do with all that excitement? Some dogs might choose to become destructive when alone. That excitement could turn into anxiety because we aren’t giving them an outlet.

On the other end, when we greet our dogs enthusiastically when we get home, they get that feel-good dopamine hit. Who doesn’t like that? When our dogs know what is coming when you get home- excitement and play and belly rubs, that creates ANTICIPATION. That anticipation quickly turns into anxiety as our dogs wait and wait and wait for us to return.

If you can leave your dog on a calm note, the chances of your dog just relaxing while home alone are much greater. If you come back home and ignore your dog- then your dog isn’t going to be that excited to see you which will eliminate a big issue that so many owners face- jumping!

If we can make things not a big deal, your dog will not make a big deal out of them.

07/05/2022

Training your dog is important, but training you, the owner, is even more important. If you do not understand the “why” behind the “how”, then you will likely not make it very far on your training journey.

06/09/2022

Met up with Presley and her owner for a follow up lesson after completing her board and train! She’s been back home for almost two weeks now and has been able to go enjoy her owners’ grandson’s baseball games without trying to also play with the ball 😜 We got to enjoy lovely weather, work on her off leash recall, and train around some distractions!
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05/25/2022

Another great outing with Mimi & Presley!

05/22/2022

Mimi & Presley got to take a trip to the park today! It was a busy Sunday afternoon and they both did awesome! We worked outside a busy dog park, and walked the trails with lots of screaming kids! Both these ladies head to their homes this week so we are out and about proofing everything they’ve been learning.
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05/19/2022

If you started and ended every single day with McDonald’s and only ate junk food in between, you’d probably feel like absolute garbage. You would never be able to focus on work because you were too busy not feeling good. You would feel slow, and unmotivated.

The sad fact of the matter is that so many of our dogs are eating the equivalent to McDonalds every. single. day. Owners get sucked in by nice advertising, colorful food, and keywords like “vet recommended” without doing any research. Read those ingredient panels. If it’s all filler, meat isn’t at least the first ingredient, and you can’t pronounce half of those ingredients, you probably shouldn’t feed it to your dog.

Going hand in hand with what our dogs eat, it’s also about how MUCH our dogs eat. If you aren’t able to see a defined waist on your dog, cut back on the food and up the exercise. Don’t focus too heavily on the recommended feeding amounts. Just watch your dog’s waist, too thin and seeing too many ribs? Increase their food. Getting a little thick? Just back off on it and cut out the unnecessary treats throughout the day.

While we want our dogs internally to healthy and functioning at peak performance, externally they need to be healthy too. Make sure you are regularly clipping those nails! Imagine having grown out toe nails 5 inches long, trying to shove them into a pair of sneakers, and then being asked to run a mile. If you can hear your dogs nails clacking in the hard floors, it’s time to trim them. If your dog doesn’t like to cooperate for nail trims, call your local groomer, and make recurring appointments. With repetition, consistency, and positive reinforcement to show your dog that nails trim are a good and necessary part of life, it’ll make them more and more comfortable being handled, which means less stress for you and your dog.

Why do we talk about the importance of our dogs being in good physical health? Simply for the fact that when our dogs can feel good and are healthy, they are able to work and train all the better because they aren’t focusing on how uncomfortable their feet are or how their stomach feels.

05/16/2022

Presley’s trip to the hardware store! With the extreme heat lately, we’ve had to figure out training indoors as this girl slows way down when she’s hot, so a walk and some training while doing some shopping 🤪

05/01/2022

Great dog social yesterday! Presley got to tag along and had a blast running around with the other dogs!

04/25/2022

If you went into work one day and your boss asked to you with a list of tasks that they needed you to do but then told you that you wouldn’t be getting paid for it. Would you still do those tasks? Maybe you do them, but you do a half-assed job and are without a care of how they turn out.

You go to your job to get paid, right? That’s how you survive. How you pay your bills and keep a roof over your head. Once that paycheck goes away, so does the motivation to work, and you’re probably going to find a new job.

When we give our dogs a command, whether it’s sit, down, or come, we have to give them something in return. We are our dogs bosses, and once that paycheck goes away, why would they want to do anything for us? Dogs are self-serving creatures, and once they no longer get that paycheck from us, they’ll find it somewhere else, and odds are it’ll be a job that we do not like.

When we train, we use food. Some dogs prefer a tug toy or a ball, but whatever it is, we have to properly motivate them. Though typically food is the easiest form of paying our dogs. Their food- not treats. So instead of giving our dog a free paycheck every day when they have to do nothing to earn it, let them work for it. Let them earn that paycheck. We do not go to work for free, so why do we expect our dogs to do the same?

04/08/2022

Lala the Weimaraner took a trip to Cabela’s today and let me tell you, she got so many compliments! We are on the final stretch of her board & train, and now we are working on proofing all the new things she’s learned the past few weeks.

04/07/2022

Outing with Lala to the park to do some training and enjoy the day!
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03/31/2022

LaLa the 🐶

03/30/2022

Training session with Lala the .Yesterday we started conditioning the ecollar! We begin by layering the stim from the collar over commands that we’ve spent the last week working on. It’s all about getting in as many good repetitions as you can, and turning these behaviors into habits.
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03/30/2022

Birdie took a field trip to the hardware store yesterday and did great! We are on week 4/4 of training and now we are focusing on proofing everything she’s learned in new environments! Can’t wait to send this girl home and show off her new tricks!
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03/26/2022

Great dog social today! If you have a dog that could use some help socializing with new dogs and people, send me a message for details!

03/22/2022

Lala the is here for her board and train! She’s definitely a wild child, but she’s already learning to rein it in and put her energy to good use.

03/18/2022

Birdie took a trip to the park today! She’s a pretty skittish girl, so we went when I knew the area wouldn’t be busy so we could work with minimal distractions, and she did awesome 😎

03/13/2022

Birdie is apparently not finished with our training session because I came back outside to find her ready to keep working 😆

03/13/2022

Bella, the Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy 🤍

03/09/2022

Meet Birdie! She’s with me learning the obedience ropes. We’re about 5 days in and it’s taken a bit to get her “water boiling”, but each day we spend time together doing something easy, building our relationship, and getting her in a good working mindset. Slow and steady will be the way with her but she’s learning more and more each day!

03/05/2022

Max and Emmet, some spring break boarders! They’re not housemates, though have boarded with me at the same time a few times before so they are always excited to see each other!

03/02/2022

Oban, looking more and more handsome every day!

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