This weekend I celebrated the end of camping season with a two night trip out to the lake with my two dogs. Both my dogs love camping and I love camping with them. It really gives us a chance for a great deal of one on one bonding time. I just recently purchased a...
Dog daycare wasn’t a thing when I was growing up. According to most resources, the first dog daycare was opened in 1987 by Joseph S. Sporn in New York City. In the following 30 plus years, dog daycares would pop up in every major city, and millions of dogs would...
It all started a few years ago when a friend called me and asked if I wanted to travel to the middle of nowhere to see if my dog could earn a Farm Dog title. She said, “…it’s a little like an AKC Canine Good Citizen but for farm dogs”. She thought my Cattle...
I have always had success crate training dogs. I think a lot of that success has to do with my mindset about crate training. Instead of looking at it from the human perspective, I look at it from the dog’s perspective. What do I mean by that? Well, when I ask most...
I haven’t always been a positive reinforcement trainer. In the early days of my training, before becoming a professional dog trainer, I trained with a great deal of punishment. I did a lot of scolding, leash jerks, and even did some competition style training that...
