Adventures of Emerald Eire's Dobermanns, aka The Road Dobes. I am a traveling human with them.
Please remember all who fought, died, and those who live with the scars and memories of fighting still to maintain while you celebrate your freedom - today, tomorrow, and every day.
I wish everyone a safe and Happy 4th of July and extended weekend.
A fav memory of my Guinness...
Earlier this week, Julie's phone went for a swim instead of staying on dry land and, sadly, fried. All data was lost (the auto-updates to Cloud were apparently not updating from internal storage for several months), so all of our Trekking Dog media and student contact information was also lost.
We are sending out an e-mail blast to our current students, but if you have sent us a text or left a voicemail without a response, please comment, message us here or send an e-mail to: [email protected]. We apologize for any delays and thank you for your understanding. Technology is wonderful...but sometimes frustrating for those of us not as technologically-inclined.
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Exercise 13: Rebalance - As I begin to rebalance myself this year, I want to be the beacon of light to anyone else who needs to rebalance theirs.
May I continue to be successful in this endeavor, where forgiveness of self has been the key to unlocking the door that leads to hope, which has become an unyielding inferno in this chapter that I am able to overcome my greatest challenges yet...but until then, I live my life: one day, one step, sometimes only one breath at a time...until there are no more. I may deserve a break…but I would go crazy if I wasn’t working for SOMETHING. Then, we shall see what's …after.
I'm really tired of people picking apart things before they ever try them. Tired of all the negativity - just because YOU can't do something, doesn't mean I can't.
So...Forward Go. Until I can no longer.
&dreams
Enrich Their Lives Friday:
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this bone for the simple fact that you can make it into a buffet of flavors and freeze it so that your dog has a min-blowing chew-fest to satisfy them. Highly recommend at least two per dog, so you can always have one in reserve and keep the busy dogs occupied!
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Behavior Tip Thursdays – Service Dog Considerations
There are way too many fraudulent Service Dogs out there that are wreaking havoc on the actual Service Dog community, where there is a great need. It’s not that we want to judge every person – or dog for that matter, as dogs can have bad days, too! – but if and when you see a “service dog” barking, growling, cowering, lunging, or otherwise acting in a fearful or unfriendly manner…this is NOT a Service Dog.
Not every dog is cut out to be a SD! Why aren’t YOU a brain surgeon? SDs are usually hand selected for stable temperament and ability to do the job they will have to perform. SDs are WORKING dogs, trained to perform specific tasks to help mitigate their handler’s disability. Not all disabilities can be seen, so please be respectful if you see a team out in public.
If you see a team in public, admire them from afar, try NOT to distract them from their handlers (but their handlers should also be able to EASILY remind them to pay attention again if needed), and ONLY approach or pet if you’ve been granted permission. Some states do NOT allow Service Dogs “in training” (SDiTs) the same rights as SDs…but some do. This means some teams may still be in training and this is where you absolutely do not want to disturb that process, as this process costs THOUSANDS of dollars and HUNDREDS of hours.
If you have children, teach them to respect all dogs, but especially Service Dogs. Talk to them gently about staying away and remind them that not all dogs can or should be pet. It is YOUR job as a parent to set your child up for success. Although a Service Dog should NOT show aggression even in unexpected situations, they also should not have to put up with your child being rude or harmful. Dogs can also be traumatized – just like their person – and you may not know what disability is underlying that you could be affecting…thus harming the PERSON as well.
We are sharing this infographic to help you understand the difference in SDs versus ESAs (Emotional Support Animals) versus TDs (Therapy Dogs) Sometimes people will also call their dog a Therapeutic Canine – this is also an ESA. ESAs and TDs do NOT have the same rights as Service Dogs and are NOT allowed in normal places of business that are not already pet-friendly. ESAs and TDs do not perform tasks for their handlers and are considered pets. Sometimes there are Psychological Support Dogs (PSDs) and these dogs are Service Dogs ONLY if they follow all the SD guidelines and are well-mannered in public AND perform specific tasks for their owners to mitigate the disability.
Most teams are out there just trying to live their lives and know their dogs bring attention…but that does not mean they want that extra attention, so remember to always be respectful.
If you have concerns about a team (aggression, barking, etc), ask a store/organization employee to assist you in the matter so no one accidentally gets injured and it can be handled in a professional manner team. A should blend in as much as possible and not cause a disruption while out and about. They are simply an extension of their handler in order to help their handler live as normal of a life as possible again.
If you have questions, a GREAT resource is: https://www.ada.gov/topics/service-animals/
If you have a disability that would benefit from a Service Dog and need help with the selection of a dog or want to assess your dog for Service Dog training and task work, please reach out! We have both in-person and online options available to get your program started. Please keep in mind most programs take several months to a couple of years depending on the foundations already in place. It is not recommended to start a dog over the age 3, as their working ability would be reduced and to ensure full health (including hip/elbow xrays, genetic disease evaluations pertinent to breed, etc) before moving forward after assessment.
Please contact us at: 217-859-6696 or www.trekkingdogtrainer.com and we can discuss more!
As Always, Happy Training!
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I am a traveling professional dog trainer and veterinary technician and am currently in the Phoenix area through Februrary. I am offering Classes, Workshops, and Private Lessons in the Gilbert area while I am here. Private Lessons can be scheduled separately and done at your home or on field trips at various locations.
My upcoming Black Friday through Cyber Monday Specials can be found here:
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A Little Bit About Me:
I've spent over 22yrs in almost every aspect of veterinary medicine, behavior, and rescue and decided a couple years ago I wasn't getting any younger, so took my services on the road and haven't looked back since! I enjoy meeting everyone and love helping to bridge the communication gap with as many as I can along the way (plenty of references upon request as well). While making new memories on the adventures with my own dogs, I specialize in Behavior Modification (especially cases where "nothing has worked"), Cooperative Care (especially cases where the pets need full sedation to be handled, like vet or groomer), and can help from Puppy through (most) Service Dog level public access and task training. I am a CGC and Tricks Evaluator and teach those classes as well as Nose Work and hold Games Day FUNdraisers as well. I do not teach Guide or Diabetic/Allergy Alert Dog at this time. I have titled several dogs, various breeds, in many different sports over the years and have helped many students who were told by other instructors that their dogs could never title to actually achieve their dreams.
I can offer virtual programs to anyone not able to physically meet and am happy to arrange a local workshop for any organization who may be interested in specific topics of learning for their teams.
Please message or call with any questions! 217-859-6696
Normal Class fees are reduced right now through Cyber Monday! If enrolling and paying before 10pm Monday, November 27th, all classes are only $100! Use the Contact Form below to get started! We are...
Happy Thanksgiving to all! We are so blessed to awaken this morning to these spectacular views and hope to see all of you Arizonians soon!
Show us your best Fall Photos for a chance to win a $20 Training Credit towards any program of your choice! Owner names from photos posted will be entered into a hat November 30th and a random winnner will be picked and announced!
I do not have words for the absolute JOY being told this last year when it occurred, so had to share as it popped up as a memory again! I had NO IDEA he was one of the ones watching me that Thursday when we were making that TikTok and OMG! He starts talking about us about 5min in...!!!
Like...seriously...so cool!
(For anyone wondering, the TikTok video he sawbeing made was this one:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRxTt3Fj/)
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I was told "Floppy Eared Dobermans Can't Hear" - Oh, really?
This yard is 3 acres. They seem to hear my moderate lip whistle just fine...
Want to teach YOUR dog - floppy eared or not - a phenomenal whistle recall like these 3?!? I work in-person or with students worldwide that I've never met via remote learning!
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75 likes, 5 comments. “I was told "Floppy Eared Dobermans Can't Hear" - Oh, really? This yard is 3 acres. They seem to hear my moderate lip whistle just fine... Want to teach YOUR dog - floppy eared or not - a phenomenal whistle recall like these 3?!? I work with students in-person but also ones I...
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At 9:25 p.m. on Tuesday, August 9th, 2016, Guinness peacefully crossed the bridge ahead of me while snuggled in my arms, surrounded by friends and family. I could not have asked for a more serene way to say goodbye to my best friend. He knew without a doubt he was loved. He was just over 10.5 years old and we lived a grand adventure. Until a couple of months before his passing, he was still running, playing, and being a goofball...then...Lung Cancer. Very Aggressive. With everything it tried to take away, we modified our lives and still remained hopeful, happy...and we conquered it all...together. I told him if he fought I would too...and we did. But the last couple of days...he grew weary and stopped fighting. He wasn't the same dog and even the hope of cure was ripped away as he told me he was tired on the same day I discovered I had raised all of the money through private donors and was approved for a loan to start the expensive SRS treatment we had hoped would give him more quality time here.
But he knew. He always knew better than me: The cancer had already spread. The evening before we said goodbye, it was confirmed a second lesion was in his lungs and his platelets had dropped to 18,000(manual count) as he spiked a 104.9 degree fever and we sat at WVRC looking into each other's eyes. Without words, he told me he was done. So, we stopped fighting. We left WVRC and went to watch the sunrise together for the last time at one of his favorite spots. We did some arfs 'n crafts and got messy. We then went to the park to chase bikes, splash and relax in his favorite creek, and just be for awhile. We then got some vanilla custard and he finally ate something. In after 3 days of begging him and barely getting anything down, he decided to eat his custard...and I knew: it was his last meal. He refused everything else, even chicken, steak, cat food, etc. We had friends come by one last time, and then I kept my promise: I was there the moment he took his first breath and was holding him in my arms as he took his last and his heartbeat peacefully ceased to exist. I don't have any other words right now. His passing ripped a huge piece of my soul out and I am still trying to cauterize the bleed, 7 years later.
It would be over a month before I could even think about what I wanted to say, but then I wrote this.
Reader and Viewer discretion advised, as it does contain a snippet of our last moments, because so many people loved him and our lives have always been public for people to see, learn from, be inspired by and more. In the end, if we are lucky, we are able to give them a peaceful, dignified passing...and he was my best friend. He gave me everything he could his entire life...and then even more.
He was my first dog. He was my Heart Dog.
I am so blessed to have his kids carry on his beautiful legacy...but I miss him so.
Time may ease some of the pain and memories remind me of all of the beautiful moments, but...
Until we meet again, my friend. Guard the Heavens and say Hello to Markie and Wade and all the other furkiddos who have crossed and are awaiting under your protection...
I am a veterinary technician. This means I educate pet owners and non-pet owners alike. I answer questions, take vitals, collect blood, urine, stool, skin cell (or other cytology) samples, give...
Let's see who all can see this post! If you could do ANYTHING with your dog, what would it be? Please comment below!
Here is a throwback to Guinness and my State Fair Demo back in 2014! What an amazing experience to have!
Baby Hazmat The Doberman, Dahlya Instinct, and Timeless Ranger uo top. Along with Lucy Hindsight, Scarlett Inferno, Raven the Riot, and Lucy Mayhem bottom row. Video if "how I got this adorable photo" from 7 ~9wk old puppies in comments. What a memory to find today!
Emerald Eire Dobermanns
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Do you want your dog to be this relaible if/when an "oopsie" moment occurs?!?!
This is why I recommend teaching "Brace" and similar - FUN - body contact games. Want to learn how? The Level 1 Calendar Cues Program teaches this cue and so many other wonder ones to get you started!
We have had great feedback so far with the over 6hours of teaching material you'll be getting in this 30day/30 lesson course...plus the free training journal download, several handouts to guide you and a lot of written materials as well to help guide you through the exercises!
The course is only $60 - that's just $2/day to get 30 dog training lessons that will start to help set your dog up for success in life!
Video Disclaimer: I had other dogs on my lap and knew if I moved to get up, all would jump and the baby might go flying if Timeless Ranger got up in excitement to join them while the baby was near him. Dad was coming over to intervene and right there, but I had him wait and started to record because we have worked on things for this very reason: the oopsie moment when maybe we are distracted and the moons align for mischief!
Just watch as Timeless Ranger never stops chewing his bone and is completely unperturbed BECAUSE he has been proofed so much as a puppy - and adult still in occasion - for SD work - so no possession issues, no body contact issues, and a GREAT dog for this family with smaller kids.
Note: We do NOT advocate EVER just allowing kids to do this, be unsupervised, and crawl all over dogs... but I did want to record why we proof the dog for this very reason. We are now also teaching the child moving forward. Timeless Ranger has also been taught "Away Behaviors" when/if he DOES get bothered by something, so he would've gotten up and walked away as well.
If you show your dog the pictures they may need to see later in life and that if they tolerate the weirdness, they get tasty things, amazing toys/play and have an understanding of what to do (get up and go away for Away Behaviors or Tolerate/Brace type behavior as needed - then you have to worry less when kids get out of sight - even for those split seconds - and do kid things. Supervise your children. PAY your dogs for good tolerant behaviors. Life can be less worrisome then!
DOGS CAN LEARN SO MUCH when we take the time to TEACH them...so what are you waiting for? Enroll today and get your journey started!
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Do you want your dog to be this relaible if/when an "oopsie" moment occurs?!?! This is why I recommend teaching "Brace" and similar - FUN - body contact games. Want to learn how? The Level 1 Calendar Cues Program teaches this cue and so many other wonder ones to get you started! We have had great feedback so far with the over 6hours of teaching material you'll be getting in this 30day/30 lesson course...plus the free training journal download, several handouts to guide you and a lot of written materials as well to help guide you through the exercises! The course is only $60 - that's just $2/day to get 30 dog training lessons that will start to help set your dog up for success in life! Video Disclaimer: I had other dogs on my lap and knew if I moved to get up, all would jump and the baby might go flying if Timeless Ranger got up in excitement to join them while the baby was near him. Dad was coming over to intervene and right there, but I had him wait and started to record because we have worked on things for this very reason: the oopsie moment when maybe we are distracted and the moons align for mischief! Just watch as Timeless Ranger never stops chewing his bone and is completely unperturbed BECAUSE he has been proofed so much as a puppy - and adult still in occasion - for SD work - so no possession issues, no body contact issues, and a GREAT dog for this family with smaller kids. Note: We do NOT advocate EVER just allowing kids to do this, be unsupervised, and crawl all over dogs... but I did want to record why we proof the dog for this very reason. We are now also teaching the child moving forward. Timeless Ranger has also been taught "Away Behaviors" when/if he DOES get bothered by something, so he would've gotten up and walked away as well. If you show your dog the pictures they may need to see later in life and that if they tolerate the weirdness, they get tasty things, amazing toys/play and have an understanding of what to do (get up and go away f
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This is how WE do a 5-dog outside during fireworks PAWTY! :) No, you don't start here...but you CAN help them get comfortable, even if in the house, with knowing they're safe, so here is also what I do inside the house for Boom-Boom-Booms (my cue). Again, we start in baby steps, but you CAN help your pet feel safe and learn that the world is not ending. I can help you get there. 217-859-6696 Www.trekkingdogtrainer.com
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