Today’s semi retirement Saturday is spent teaching Zen how to swim!
Last but not least, Cali And Charley are here for one more day of boarding and are staying cool in my office 🐾
Elon Mutts and Zen are back for boarding! Once you have trained with me, your dog has the same rules instilled in boarding forever and ever amen! Lol
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Look who came back to see training mama!!! It’s pocket pittie Macho Man!!
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Hot cold game with my boy
Does anyone else play the hot cold game with their dogs?
Food Prep for the four leggeds 🐈⬛🐾
Happy Father’s Day to the best of them—everybody loves boarding daddy!!
Two of my favorite pittie girls enjoying a little sunbath while boarding here. Cali & Charley aka Charlita 💚🦅💚
In case you don’t get my little emoji closing above, their mom is a Dallas Cowboys fan! Lol
Happy Father’s Day 2024 from our pack to yours! Drop your photos below⬇️
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There are three ways to my baby dog’s heart:
🏊 schwimmies
🍔 food
🎾balls
There’s only one thing better than the beach…
He sure does treat us like peons 🤌🏽
Beast mode. Hold onto your fingers!
Improvised training a.k.a. think fast on your feet, mama!
Last year before our first beach trip at age 1️⃣, I trained Archie to recall long distance to a coach’s whistle.
It was put to the test after Rob left us at the beach for a few days so that he could fly home to work.
Kind folks kept picking up Archie’s ball and throwing it down the beach for him. He was getting too far from camp and not realizing I was now hundreds of yards behind my boy waiting for poke along Daisy.
I realized the recall whistle was very obnoxious 😳 and I had to think fast so I created the “toot toot toot” sound on the spot.
It has now become another tool in my toolbox for recall!
P.S. That right shoulder of mine has a torn rotator cuff! I can’t tag my wellness team but whew—that’s some power!

Funnel cake… The long version
Teaching Moment: An open door should NEVER mean your dog can walk through it without your direction & permission unless it’s a trained service dog.
Archie did just that to Rob THEN took the liberty to step just over the threshold.
While it’s easy to figure “oh well, it’s a secure property”, you know how I think — teaching 💡moment!
This is where the real work begins. Not at the park, not at your kid’s school and not at the exciting soccer field but right inside your home or, in this case, our beach rental. Every day is a day to train.
As I always say, if you can’t succeed in your home, you’ll struggle even more at the park with all the distractions. One step at a time and it’s ok to go backward so long as you keep moving forward and never give up.