If you’d like a little November Thanksgiving fun for your dog, there is a food toy on the market that’s shaped like a turkey. Food toys for dogs and puppies give them a way to spend their mental energies and is much like a pacifier for dogs. Food toys for dogs keep them busy for a while. Some dogs and puppies need training to learn to use their food toys. Make sure the food pieces you put inside are small {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}
Halloween Dog Training and Activities 2020
October 27, 2020 by
As a pet owner, you can enjoy Halloween with your own dog, even if you’re staying at home as we are. Use the treats to teach a trick! Here’s one I taught Rambo, the Frenchie, with his Halloween dog treats while he was boarding and training with me. Love Wags A Tail Board-and-Train loves Halloween and we love rolling the camera for videos so out clients can see what theire pooches are learning through dog trarining with us. And we {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}
