With Halloween right around the corner, conjure up some fun with easily trained tricks with your dog or puppy such as waving bye-bye or hello. Here is our housetraining graduate Havanese puppy showing off the glam ways she can flap her paw to wave hello to tricks and treats. ———- To send your dog or puppy to the Love Wags A Tail board-and-train camp for motivational learning with our cast of characters, contact me with your dog training, behavior modification {Read More}
Barrel Racing While Housetraining A Puppy
October 11, 2020 by
Luna, a Havanese puppy, came to board-and-train for housetraining with a few extra ounces on her. This puppy’s owner said one of the problems she had is her dog won’t walk in the heat, so the puppy doesn’t get enough exercise. She not only gained some extra Covid weight, but she needed a way to exercise her relatively inactive dog in the air conditioning. As I housebroke and trained this puppy, I also thought about the weight and exercise issue {Read More}
Board-And-Train Extras
September 27, 2020 by
Sometimes during a puppy’s or dog’s board-and-train, besides the basics I teach them as discussed with the owner, I find little tricks to add to their repertoire that makes for a smile. This little behavior of sneezing I captured when Luna the Havanese trained and boarded for housetraining with Love Wags A Tail board and train dog and puppy training. ———- To send your dog or puppy to the Love Wags A Tail board-and-train camp for motivational learning with our {Read More}
How Dogs Learn From Dogs
July 1, 2020 by
Puppies and dogs can and do learn from watching other animal cohorts, especially if they’re motivated and/or curious and the learning gets them something they want or like. In this video, a board-and-train puppy watched my Border Collie drink from the bird bath. Even though I have a bucket of fresh water outside for dogs daily, my BC chooses the bird bath for her source of outdoors hydration day-in and day-out. So when she showed my little board-and-train how to {Read More}
Dog Treat Surprise When Paper Towels Are Scarce
June 23, 2020 by
When there was a lack of paper towels on the grocery shelves, I used and re-used the ones I had and got creative on options when I could. The option of using bread for depressing the drippings from my hamburgers and sharing the outcome with my dogs has become a very popular shift in the Love Wags A Tail household. So much so that my dogs have convinced me to keep on doing what I’ve been doing…to save paper, of {Read More}
