Dogs figure out how to make things work for them. At Outsmarting Dogs board-and-train boot camp, dogs may learn to ring a doorbell as part of their housetraining or housebreaking protocols and then use that doorbell for more ways than one. Dogs also get very creative when they go home and clients have told me that their dogs also use their doorbells to communicate other messages besides having to go potty. I recently recorded my own dogs outsmarting me with {Read More}
Outsmarting Dogs Puppy and Dog Board and Train Boot Camp
January 31, 2024 By
Outsmarting Dogs is a board-and-train in Lee county for owners of dogs and puppies who want humane, positive training. If you’re looking for a humane boot camp for your family pooch, contact me! ———- Helen Verte Schwarzmann 239-368-3682 Contact me Certified in Training and Counseling Certified Pet Dog Trainer-Knowledge Assessed Certified Trick Dog Instructor AKC STAR Puppy, CGC, and Trick Dog Trainer and Evaluator Your Board-and-Train Dog Trainer for southwest Florida, Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Sanibel, Gateway, Bonita Springs, Naples, {Read More}
Holiday Board-and-Train Puppies
December 11, 2023 By
Happy holidays from Outsmarting Dogs board-and-train for puppies and dogs! Bee is a Goldendoodle puppy we’ve been outsmarting this December. She’s been learning that greeting people is much better with four paws on the floor, that pulling on leash doesn’t get her too far, and that when she plays pet manners games for the win, she earns delicious dog traininghttps://outsmartingdogs.com/holiday-board-and-train-puppies-fort-myers-naples-fort-lauderdale-dog-training/ food, such as tuna fudge. Auggie is an adolescent Schnauzer whose counter surfing skills are being traded in for other {Read More}
Halloween Dog Tricks
October 15, 2023 By
Dressing up and decorating is part of Halloween festivities. So is trick or treat And taking photos and movies. Board-and-train dogs will sometimes revisit me for boarding, updating behaviors, or learning tricks. When owners go on vacation, they send their dogs to me for updating skills or learning new tricks. Two very special pooches visit me often enough and feel like my extended family. Nala is a beautiful German Shorthaired Pointer. She loves to stalk birds and lizards and the {Read More}
Retraining and Practicing A Dog Trick
April 8, 2023 By
Training an older dog or a larger dog as an adult is doable. When you have a larger breed dog, though, training certain behaviors is easier done when that large hulk is a smaller sized dumpling. Take the trick behavior many people like to train their dogs, roll over. It’s not an easy trick for many people to train, depending on their dogs. Larger dogs need lots of space and a limber trainer. Even small, stiff dogs, who are uncomfortable {Read More}
Holiday Board-And-Train And Homemade Dog Training Cookies
October 31, 2022 By
I baked Halloween cookies for the dogs in training, which are all the dogs. Always. Dogs are always in training. In other words, even dogs who have been trained need their training reinforced, always. I kick start well mannered behaviors during board-and-train, so dogs and puppies get an installation of basic behaviors. Then, when dogs go home, it’s up to their owners to maintain the basic installation and grow these new behaviors in their own home and peripheral environments. In {Read More}
Should You Feed Your Dog On A Daily Schedule?
June 6, 2022 By
Should you feed your dog on a daily schedule? Yes! And here are a half-dozen reasons why. 1. Who wants to eat stale food? No one. But leaving food out in a bowl makes food stale. Keeping food in a sealed container or bag before it’s time to serve a meal, keeps food fresh and tasty. 2. Food left out attracts flies, ants, and other insects. Flies lay eggs, which turn into larvae. Feeding your dog on a routine schedule {Read More}
Puppy Training Bath Manners
January 8, 2022 By
When Astrid joined the Outsmarting Dogs board-and-train program, she was a 4 months old. She came into the program to learn basic puppy manners. One day, she needed a bath. That’s when I discovered that she was “allergic” to water. She fought the bath and me every step of the way. The owners would have a big problem giving her a bath over the next 10-plus. Pitties are mostly muscle and very strong, and fighting one at bath time is {Read More}
The Fickle Pickle Dachshund
July 24, 2021 By
Bean the Dachshund originally went through my board-and-train program for puppies and graduated with honors. He visits me occasionally for boarding and he beomes Mr. Hyde at drop-off. Not friendly at all and if I dare to pick him up while his mom is near, he would likely display teeth and use them! So I don’t do that. However, when the coast is clear and we are alone, he turns into Dr. Jeckyll and is not only very level-headed, but {Read More}
Housetraining In a Rainstorm
July 7, 2021 By
Elsa went back and forth from Hurricane to Tropical Storm status, but whatever she was during her journey through us, she was a wet weather phenomenon. Even so, I still had a client’s pup, a beautiful super Pug puppy named Luna, who was here for housetraining, and we had to get the morning housetraining job done. This is the 11-month-old puppy’s first morning walk with me during the rain storm named Elsa, and we had to dodge a few peltings {Read More}
