The Puppy Nanny

09/10/2025

Cool cooperative care with wolves. Imagine what you can do with your dog!

09/08/2025

Another Movement Puzzles Workshop in October!
Still a spot open.

08/22/2025

Interesting study from the Dog Aging Project,

This research looked at how where a dog lives in the U.S. affects the kind of exposures it faces and the types of health problems it gets.

08/11/2025

We all get to decide what we find reinforcing. So do.our dogs.

08/04/2025

This

When I repost my articles on crate training, inevitably someone will take offence and launch into a verbal tirade about how they will NEVER force their dogs to live in a cage 🙄.

Firstly, having your dog desensitized to being in a crate for the short term, when necessary, is hardly the same thing as forcing a dog to stay in a crate all the time. Keeping a dog crated for many hours unnecessarily because the owner cannot be bothered to housebreak a dog or because their unruly and untrained dog trashes their house are both very poor reasons for crating a dog.

However situations do arise where a dog might be required to be confined to a crate for the short term ( ie: Vet hospital for surgery or due to injury, safe car transport, service people on call to your home, or a forced evacuation and emergency shelter situation).

A really good reason for crate desensitization training ahead of time is in case there is an evacuation emergency, your dog will be a bit less stressed during crate confinement. And if your dog is not freaking out in the crate, this gives you one less thing to be stressed out during this already stressful time.

07/20/2025

Another Movement Puzzles Workshop!

August 16th at The Puppy Nanny in Simpsonville, SC

07/17/2025

A spot has opened for the Movement Puzzles workshop this Saturday.
If you would like it, please email Sue, [email protected]

All spots have filled. Thank You.

Movement Puzzles Workshop
Saturday, July 19th - 10 AM to Noon

Come and learn how to get started with Movement Puzzles.
These puzzles are not only fun, but are great for dogs of all ages.
Movement puzzles will help you become a better trainer.
And, they don't require any special equipment.

Here is a video of an easy Movement Puzzle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytjV3vJBCfs&ab_channel=bedoghappy

07/06/2025