Responsible Dog & Cat Training and Behavior Solutions, LLC

25/01/2025

The "B" working hard in 47 degree weather

21/01/2025

We did it! Beautiful cold, windy, wet weather! We're having an unusual spat of what used to be normal January, South Florida, on the , weather!

BettyB working it and having fun doin it! We're not wussies 😆

20/01/2025

BettyB! Nice bridge walk. When we can go later and it's not hot! The cold air doesn't always last long in the winter

18/01/2025

18/01/2025

BettyB. Foggy morning, worked hard.

17/01/2025

Just finished. Great early morning walk and train.

Had interesting experience w man walking his dog, larger than BettyB. As they approached, he let his dog lunge ahead toward us.

I let BettyB have loosened lead following. This allowed the two dogs to merge head on. The other dog acted fearful/playful. BettyB read it as hmmm. She reacted back. I said, "does he want to rumble?" The man replied no, he doesn't want that. Well? What do you need to do?

There was woman coming up behind us. She saw the whole thing. Turns out she's JRT owner! And understood what transpired. We walked and chatted this up for a bit. Then, i needed to pay attention to BettyB. This person was familiar with us. We can't make people do the right thing. We can expect it tho!

14/01/2025

BettyB she looks proud and watchful. One needs to be. There are so many questionable people now. Trust is nearly non-existent. The expectation of good workmanship is questionable. Begs the question, how can one protect themselves and get things done right?

11/01/2025

BettyB standing and staying as this confident runner ran by! She's so good around the right people!

11/01/2025

BettyB! So proud of her. She did so well. Including experiencing a man trying to tell me what to do while standing and staying at distance. We had to plant her on the wall to avoid three women approaching while the dog walking with was left with no guidance signals. In other words, beware what that dog might do with limited space to get away. This was followed by older gentleman walking tiny little dog. Not exactly sure what that dogs problem was other than appearing quite concerned about BettyB. Unfortunately, the man didn't seem to know how to change that behavioral concern into something more courageous/confident. Yes, it's true. People need more help understanding dogs than ever before. So many damaged dogs as result.

10/01/2025

BettyB working and running hard!

08/01/2025

BettyB working hard. She's beastie

07/01/2025

BettyB working and playing hard on cold morning in Sarasota FL. She's unshackled. Point tho. She's capable of doing everything safely in the public domain wearing a comfort trainer. She's also shaking off after experiencing another dogs threatening behavior. This means she's learned to defer to me. She's heavily rewarded for this. Her stress levels, any that might be expressed, return to baseline much faster. This is highly rewarding for me. My dog has the ability (coping skill) to redirect (refocus) her attention back to what we're doing! This is focused focus learning 😁

04/01/2025

BettyB ✔️ cold morning

03/01/2025

Beautiful early morning before sunrise at 47 degrees. BettyB working and playing hard

01/01/2025

Wow, something new. BettyB ✔️ working, training, and playing hard. Here she was, doing stand stay while someone walked by. I'm going to add someone who might know how to behave around dogs. Unfortunately, the side effect of being devoted to working with dogs is that you get it's not all fun and games.

31/12/2024

Excellent walk, train and have good time!

31/12/2024

Jeanne gave us this Christmas gift for BettyB and me! It's nice and lightweight. It's made from all recycled ♻️ materials. They company is "B" type that gives 1% to organizations qualified. TY Jeanne, i love it 🤩

30/12/2024

All done ✔️ w BettyB working and playing