Dog Training

“Yeah!  I’m so happy!” says your friend. “Hey, what’s the good news?” you ask. “My daughter is having a baby!” “Congratulations!!  How old is your daughter?” “She’ll be thirteen in two weeks!” Right here, you might think you’ve stepped into the Twilight Zone.  Because who in their right mind would be happy about such a…

One of the programs that we offer for our clients is something called a Board and Train.  This means that we actually take a dog to live with us for a period of time to complete training.  Our two programs are a Jumpstart (one week) and Bootcamp (two weeks). Typically people have a fairly strong…

“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…

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…