Gaining trust is part of board-and-train when all dogs arrive, but especially shy puppies and dogs. Luna is a Doodle who was rescued and adopted from a puppy mill. She has a big need to build confidence, and I gave her a good start at Outsmarting Dogs board-and-train for dogs and puppies. Luna’s new adopter is a perfect match for her little puppy. We love patient, caring owners! Those are our types of clients. I train humanely, with food and {Read More}
Working With Multiple Personalities Board And Training Dogs And Pups
July 4, 2024 By
Happy July 4th! Fireworks, sparkly and loud, are on the menu on this holiday. Make sure you keep your pooch safe when it comes to Independence Day. It can be fun for people, but a lot of dogs find the loud sounds very scary. Dogs who are shy and meek are more likely to run and hide from the loud noises on Independence day than the dogs who are outgoing and loud themselves. I have worked with all types of {Read More}
Counter Surfing and Swiping
June 23, 2024 By
We have a lovely and huge goldendoodle who has arrived at Outsmarting Dogs. His name is Seymour. One of his goals, actually his owners’ goal, is to reduce his hobby of swiping what he finds on his daily counter surfing excursions. After that, he then runs away with his precious swipe to be chased. It’s great fun for him. Not so much for his owners. We are working on reducing that behavior using completely humane and positive methods. If you {Read More}
Playing Ball With Rules For Safety
June 20, 2024 By
One of my board-and-trains who returns occasionally for boarding is Auggie. This fur kid is an energetic Schnauzer. He needs plenty of exercise, and lots of reminders of the rules from training. I train dogs to learn the rules, then I reinforce them for maintenance. I do this no matter if it’s their first time here or the fifth. Auggie was super excited, and when we started to play, he swiped my arm hard unexpectedly. That stung! After that, our {Read More}
Doggy Doorbell Ringing
March 16, 2024 By
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}
