If you have a dog or a puppy and would like to take holiday photos of him/her wearing a Santa hat, here’s a how-to video on helping a pooch become comfortable while training hat wearing. My board-and-train student’s name is Farley. He’s an adorable miniature poodle puppy who demonstrates how he became brave and wore the Santa hat. Follow along to do the same with your doggo. If you want to enroll your puppy or dog in my humane board-and-train {Read More}
Baking Training Food From Canned Prescription Dog Food
May 31, 2025 By
I am training an adorable pooch who has a propensity to form struvite crystals. According to his veterinarian, the only food the dog is allowed to eat is corporately made canned or kibble prescription diets. In order to train this fellow humanely, I needed food that I can pass to him and that he can eat on the go. So I baked training food from the contents of the canned dog food as is shown in the following video. Basically, {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}
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}
Dogs and Pups Expressing Their Talents and Playing
May 19, 2021 By
Dogs deserve to play. Each dog or puppy I board and train has a different interest. Pups and dogs like to fetch, dig, chase, be chased, hunt, bury, tug, hoard, chew, bark, find, shred, and combinations of all of these and more. One of my dogs likes to squeak toys. The squeaking sound emulates the sound of prey when it’s been caught. I don’t know if that’s what’s turning him on because he oftentimes watches the rabbits dart through our {Read More}
