Housetraining Puppy Learns a Trick for a Treat

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

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

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}

Monk, UFOs, Pet Dogs and Training

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}

Puppy’s Pine Cone Ritual

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}