Happy Halloween

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

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}

Enunciating Dog Training Cues

I wanted to watch a ghost-type show this weekend in honor of the Halloween month. I found a show called Historic Hauntings. The first few minutes of it proved that I needed either a semester in Britain to understand British English or subtitles. I chose the latter. If the narrator had been directed to speak slower, I would have understood more. But when British accented vowels and consonants come at me at highway speed instead of what I need, school-zone {Read More}

Unexpected Behaviors

I love candles and usually light one while I’m at home in the early evening. Like this one, which I had burning and enjoyed the holiday sparkles on it. When it burned down to the end, I blew out the wick and quickly prepared another candle to put in its place for the next day. There was still hot wax in the stem so the new candle would have some wax to adhere to in the holder. I pushed the {Read More}

Pumpkin Patch Catch Dog Training

We at Love Wags A Tail love autumn almost as much as we love to board and train dogs and puppies. Pumpkins are so much a part of autumn, and one of the local areas for locations where pumpkins are plentiful is the Flamingo Road Nursery at 1655 S Flamingo Road, Davie, FL 33325. We use pumpkins for decorations during October and November and our dogs in training are usually curious about the huge gourds. One of our September board-and-train {Read More}