Blog

“Just so long as it is believed that environment alone will influence the behavior of our dogs, and that heredity is not the main influence, just that long will we have timid and uncertain temperaments in the breed.” ~ Lloyd Brackett, from the May 1932 Shepherd Review. Many times as trainers we are called into…

The Two-fold Issue Lately we’ve been training a lot of people with littermates, puppies from the same litter.  We’ve worked with sisters, brothers, and sisters and brothers.  There is one thing in common ~ a much higher degree of separation anxiety, and not between human owners and dogs, but between the siblings themselves. At first…