A couple links for you

On walking and sniffing:
http://www.lifeinquebec.com/smells-like-spring-in-quebec/ 

Awesome Dancing with dogs video at Crufts:
https://www.facebook.com/Crufts/videos/10154016052049878/?fref=nf

Teaching left turns, right turns and cross the street:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sASQqj4Vx8w&feature=youtu.be

Enjoy!

A Fatal Trip on the Dark Side

A dog lost her life. Why should I care? Because she was a past student in my classes. Beautiful, playful and full of life. I just found out today that her owner put her down. I still can't believe it.

Let me back up and give you the "rest of the story". 

She started off right in my puppy classes, graduated, and I even made some visits to her home. Regular puppy stuff-jumping, biting, getting into stuff. I've had pups from this breeder before in my classes and they do very well.

But the owner expected perfection. Now. So she goes to one of the worst trainers in town. Notorious for his pain inflicted training. Pays him many times what she paid for my classes and proceeds to train her with pain. You know, prong collar, jerking, yelling and who knows what else. Grown people fear him as he is so mean. Folks walk out of his class, shocked at how he trains. 

This goes on for months, maybe even a year. So now she lunges, snaps ,growls at the owner when she attempts to get her out of her kennel. Diagnosed with a Neurological disorder, owner puts her down.

Both you and I know different. The punitive, fear based training ruined her relationship with her owner. And what's more, someone saw this early on and tried to buy the dog from her. Cash right now. Nope. I would have taken her at anytime along the way. Nope. Never got another call. 

I'm heartbroken, sad, angry, and disgusted. Makes me sick actually. She put her trust in this trainer. It cost her dog her life. I will always remember you, Aspen. 

One more of my babies.

First-Mac, Tulip and Nitrox. Then my fancy art pic of Sage. Awesome.

 

 

 

 

And my new Puppy Class students! Brilliant!

Some pics for you!

 

Park Walk February

We had 16 dogs and owners join us yesterday for our February Park Walk. We couldn't ask for a better day. So much fun. Stay tuned for March Park Walk date and place. Coming soon to your inbox. Enjoy!  

 

 

 

 

 

#rippohthedog

Poh the dog passed away this past Friday evening in the arms of his mum and pops. We knew it was coming but we were not ready. Are you ever ready to lose a loved one? They shared this last year of Poh's life on Instagram with 100,000+ of their fan friends. Pics of his awesome bucket list journies. His mum and pop even got married this year and included Poh. We all felt close to this little, awesome family and their super loving care for their elderly dog. They taught us so much and let us all love Poh along the way. I got to meet them this fall and took this pic. Wonderful, loving folks. My ❤ goes out to them. Poh was their baby and everybody's dog. We grieve with you. And thank you for sharing Poh with us. See you on the other side, buddy!

Some pics for you!

Blu. He's adorable.

Me and Boomer

Newbie-Sarge!

Two new Therapy Dogs-Gandalf and Navi!