This is a huge photo of one of my many hibiscus plants. This was a startling moment of an otherwise splendid day for me. I was looking outside when I saw this particular plant wilting noticeably. Startling because I water all of them everyday and sometimes twice a day. I got to work immediately and saturated the ground around this plant with water so it could drink from its roots up. The whole time I was wondering how come? Did {Read More}
A Dog’s Urge To Mark
September 21, 2015 by
Dogs are like people in some ways. Some have urges to do things that others don’t. For example, marking. Marking’s when a dog, usually a male, has to lift his leg just about everywhere to leave some of his urine for whatever reason he has. To let other animals know he’s been there, to flavor the environment, to add extra scent to someone else’s scent, create a boundary over territory, or something else. We don’t know exactly what drives each dog {Read More}
Housetraining Small Dogs In Boot Camp
August 11, 2015 by
Sometimes I have puppy dog board-and-train clients who come into our humane boot camp program to learn a certain behavior, but they have a roadblock behavior in the way of our success. Such is the case for my little 1-year-old Chihuahua MinPin client, Valentino, who is smart, agile, and as lovable as they come. He also is very good at climbing out of ex-pens, but staying in an ex-pen is part of the Love Wags A Tail housetraining board-and-train process. {Read More}
Housetraining Plus Management
January 20, 2015 by
One of my favorite board-and-train dogs is the one who needs housetraining. I love potty training dogs. Adult dogs, puppies, young dogs, old dogs, send me your dog who needs housebreaking and I’ll do it. As long as she’s a healthy dog, that is. When there’s something getting in the way of complete housetraining, I can still help with housetraining plus management. I’ll give you two examples of dogs that don’t fit the healthy dog category because they have physical {Read More}
Puppy Board-and-Train
October 23, 2014 by
If you’re getting a puppy, you may think, “I don’t want to send him away to a dog trainer!” But puppy board-and-train can be the best decision for the start of your puppy’s life, especially behaviorally, and especially when the puppy does his training and boarding through Love Wags A Tail Dog Training. Why? The latter may be answered through our transparency pledge. We tell you how we train your pup and what we do to him when he’s right {Read More}
