Kitkat didn’t want to go into her crate, and at nine weeks old, I couldn’t fault her for it. She had only recently left her mother and littermates, and transitioning from a puppy pile to sleeping alone was proving to be difficult. While we’re finding that allowing puppies to sleep with their people can help […]
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When I started the walk with Rosie, I had twenty minutes to get to my next client. This walk was supposed to take ten minutes. The client lived seven minutes away. But we were quickly burning time as Rosie, my rescue Belgian Malinois, was refusing to walk. I felt the familiar rage flare up. If
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I’ve always had an issue with over committing myself. I’m not just going to write regularly, I tell myself. I’m going to have a finished piece every single Friday and I’m going to make a newsletter and I’m going to ask people to subscribe to it. I’m not just going to be more consistent with
It all happened too quickly. One second, I was bending over to put a harness on Rosie, and immediately after, I was ugly crying, stars floating above my head like I was a cartoon character, blood dripping from my lip. It was the second time I’d gotten a good knock to the face by a
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Complex and impressive poses aside, there are some basic things we can do with our pups to get them camera ready as we get those Christmas photo sessions scheduled.
Until recently, I didn’t realize that there are some folks who don’t know what’s out there in terms of possibilities for training. A lot of folks in the Little Rock area utilize board-and-trains, but that’s not the only option.
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Erika Gonzalez encourages simple activities for enrichment. “I think enrichment can be easy,” she said. “It doesn’t need to be something extravagant. It doesn’t need to be something that lasts an hour. It could be as simple as putting some of your dog’s dry food in a towel and rolling it up into a little doggie burrito and having them figure it out. … It could be egg cartons.”
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There’s a reason why a lot of puppies are taken to a shelter at about nine to eleven months. Even with adequate management, training, and socialization, adolescent dogs can be a bit much.
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I’ve (Elizabeth over here at Telltail Dog Training) been guilty in the past of throwing around suggestions of spay / neuter as a solution to behavior issues. With Lily and Lola, it does seem that if Lily had been able to get an earlier spay, their relationship might not have fractured the way it did when Lily went into heat. On the other side of everything, Lily’s spay didn’t automatically fix the situation. That will take some more time and behavior modification.
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“Knowledge is Key”: Starting a Dog Training Business and Discussing Pitbull Misconceptions with Masina Kakese Podcast Transcript [Intro] Masina Kakese: So I got like second pick out of the litter, and I made sure that she was gonna fix them [Laughs] after that whole situation. She’s like, ‘Yeah, I’m not doing this again. That’s for