Dogs deserve to play. Every puppy I board and train has a different interest. Dogs and puppies both like to do such activities as dig, fetch, chase and be chased, bury, tug, hunt. cache, hoard, bark, chew, shred, search to find, and combinations of all of these and more. One of the favorite activities of one of my own dogs is to squeak a toy. The squeaking sound emulates the sound of prey when it’s been caught. I don’t know {Read More}
When Crocs Become a Dog Toy for Puppy Zoomies
April 22, 2021 by
When I have a board-and-train puppy who thinks my Crocs are a toy…
A Flock of Black Birds
January 20, 2021 by
Today, while I walked my board-and-train puppy, I looked up and saw a huge flock of black birds silently flying by. Had I not looked above, I never would have seen this beautiful sight. How often do we stare straight ahead and miss the many beautiful things above and below us? ———- 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, {Read More}
Dobermann Bath Time With Fox Squirrel Interruption
November 7, 2020 by
Here is something you don’t see everyday. A Fox Squirrel. This one was taking a snack out of the cup of shelled peanuts I leave for the birds. It also took its time, but I needed to give my dog a bath, so we had to interrupt. It wasn’t a huge confrontation, and the squirrel did more posturing than my dog did. Velken came to the bathtub for a piece of sausage, and while we got the bath done, the {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}
