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}
Monk, UFOs, Pet Dogs and Training
April 11, 2020 by
I am a big fan of the show Monk. Though they have long ago stopped making new episodes, I watch episodes from the eight recorded seasons regularly. I also think that in this hand washing, germ killing environment, the character Monk would come out ahead. Monk was called a germophobe, always using wipes after shaking someone’s hands, but isn’t that the thing to do these days to stay safe? Yes! Avoiding the hand shake is even better. In this Covid-19 {Read More}
Family Lockdown Boogie with Maisey the Family Dog
April 10, 2020 by
Here’s a bit of fun from the Buchanan family of four who are in Covid-19 lock-down like the rest of us. They make their home with their dog, Maisey, in Wellington, New Zealand, and give the world a bit of entertainment and levity during these trying times with a creative song and dance number. They’ve also been interviewed by RNZ, which is a New Zealand public broadcast service, and it’s quite fun to hear them talk about the experience of {Read More}
Professional Dog Training Help During A Pandemic
April 8, 2020 by
We are in an episode of history to-be that is remarkable. My mother passed away over 20 years ago, and I often think about what happened since then. She never knew computers, cell phones, wifi, all this stuff. And I’m not really into having to learn all the newest connection technology because there is seemingly a new app every month to set up meetings! I don’t want to waste my precious time. I’m a dog trainer, not a tech person. {Read More}
Oh Very Young – The Cat Sings
April 4, 2020 by
Today I read a horrible story about a 24-year-old person who bludgeoned and stabbed their dog to death. It was a mere few miles from my home. I know there are stories like this in proximity to many people. If not this year, last year, or years ago. If not now, the future is wide opened. And I don’t know what makes this maddening, venomous, cruelity suddenly escape, but the thought that it is festering in people and that our {Read More}
Dog Poop Bag Options and Housetraining
April 3, 2020 by
I’m thinking outside the usual poop bag in today’s blog post. We dog owners need a way to pick up the poop and the more economical, the better! Don’t get me started about people who walk away from the piles their dogs leave. When they do, they can be leaving behind a host of communicable parasites and disease in that pile. Be responsible. Pick up the poop and dispose of it. I’m a Costco shopper and found on the Costco {Read More}
A Song Dedicated To Our Dogs
March 31, 2020 by
Just yesterday, a friend sent me an adorable video of her dog on a walk with her. He is a cute, determined little fellow who with all his might, has robust, enjoyable walks. This morning, I asked my Alexa Dot to play my music and the song Lovely Day by Bill Withers started playing and I thought this was the perfect song to dedicate to all our wonderful pet dogs. When the song started to play, in my mind’s eye, {Read More}
Puppy’s Pine Cone Ritual
January 17, 2020 by
Besides training our board-and-train pooches, we have fun learning about their play and toy interests while they visit Love Wags A Tail board-and-train puppy and dog training. Bella was a most recent enrollee in our puppy board-and-train and housetraining program. She excelled in all learning and was an active, playful addition to the household while here. All our boot campers are part of the household. Bella was brought to Florida by the Big Dog Ranch Rescue and that’s where our {Read More}
Board-and-Train Play Time
December 29, 2019 by
Part of the dog training experience at Love Wags A Tail board-and-train for puppies and dogs is getting plenty of exercise and play time for those dogs who enjoy dog-dog interractions. Here is a video of a bit of that from recent board-and-trains. ———- To send your dog to the Love Wags A Tail board-and-train camp for motivational learning with our cast of characters, contact us with your dog training, behavior modification wish list to get started. The Dutch Shepherd {Read More}
Holiday Board-and-Train Photos
December 18, 2019 by
We are all about fun with training. The behaviors we teach at Love Wags A Tail board-and-train puppy and dog training can be used for many day-do-day activities including photo opportunities. We teach dogs obedience cues then their owners maintain and incorporate those behaviors into their own environments and lifestyles. I’ve dressed up my own dogs and those of my clients’ board-and-train pups for some spirited photos and a bit of holiday splash! Happy Holidays from Love Wags A Tail {Read More}
Board-and-Train Food Toy Training
December 12, 2019 by
Love Wags A Tail obedience board-and-train dog training uses many products to help our clients engage their dogs when they go home from their puppy or dog board-and-trains. I ordered a new food toy for the holidays which just arrived, and I tried it out on two of my current students. Sodapup is a new company who manufactures their products in the USA. You can take a look at the variety of food toys they offer. ———- To send your {Read More}
Happy Halloween
October 31, 2019 by
Halloween is all about the treats for my dogs. Yum. And if they don’t get the treats, they get a little wicked witch like. I like to keep them happy, so I keep the Halloween treats coming. It’s all fun and games until someone has one too many. Then it’s time to sleep it off. This is the Dobermann version of spooning. Meanwhile, even the neighborhood tortoises are on the road to trick or treating. Maybe he’s on his way {Read More}
The Energetic Adolescent Dog
October 29, 2019 by
The devil made him do it. Or was he just being a dog? That’s my boy sniffing in the middle. All my dogs are now in their matching Halloween collars as of this morning, so is that what put the mischief into my adolescent boy? Did the spirit of Halloween seep into him? Can you see it on his face and all over his tongue? Is that graveyard dirt? Or just happiness? He did just get a chance to run {Read More}
