Thanksgiving Puggle Graduates Top of Our Board-and-Train Class

We enjoyed having Semi the Puggle in the Love Wags A Tail Thanksgiving board-and-train program this 2017. He is a fabulously smart kid, and he had a lot of fun while learning all his new behaviors. He graduated with a lot under his graduation cap and played hard with the resident kids as well. Congratulations Semi! Board-and-Train is an efficient way to get a dog on track to new behaviors. Join us! To send your dog to the Love Wags {Read More}

Halloween Dog Training Fun

Halloween greetings from Love Wags A Tail board-and-train dog training. We are enjoying the day with some naturally orange pumpkin-peanut butter homemade Halloween cookies for the dogs, and being a little bit spooky decked out in festive dog collars, burning candles in our jack-o-lantern candle holders, and doing tricks around the pumpkin patch for those cookies. OK, it’s a one-pumpkin pumpkin patch, but it’s a big one. We have other holidays up ahead of us. If you are taking a {Read More}

Bouncy Dogs Inform Their Playmates

When watching dogs play chase, be mindful of the bouncy play style, which is what we’re looking for. When dogs play chase, this happy, puppy-like romping informs other dogs that “We are playing! It’s not the real thing.” If playing chase turns into flat style running where one dog is being chased hard by one or more dogs, then it’s time to call everyone back in for a cool down period, or to separate the chaser/s from the chased. Flat {Read More}

Leaping Dobermann Targets Back Seat of Truck

My latest Dobermann is a board-and-train who needs multiple sessions a week in high-distraction environments. So I take him around town to train. He rides in the backseat like a pro, looking out the window and watching the scenery. But what he didn’t do with his bouncy, long-legged self prior to our drives around town was jump into the back seat of my F-150. I invited him up day after day, but it always ended with my having to hoist {Read More}

Graduation Video 4-month-old Skateboarding Mini Aussie

Love Wags A Tail’s latest graduation video with Smokey, the 4-month-old Mini Aussie, as the skateboarding star. To send your dog to the Love Wags A Tail humane boot camp board-and-train dog training program, for motivational learning with our cast of characters, contact us with your dog training, behavior modification wish list for more information. Helen Verte Schwarzmann Contact me Certified in Training and Counseling Certified Pet Dog Trainer-Knowledge Assessed Certified Trick Dog Instructor AKC STAR Puppy, CGC, and Trick {Read More}