Harnesses are everywhere! What a bunch of junk. Don’t rely strictly on your equipment some company tells you their product will “fix your walk”. Before becoming a trainer, I could never figure out why Willie (my golden/husky/lab) wouldn’t stop pulling on our walks! Harness after different harness I tried. “Why… Continue reading
I had a situation while walking Willie today. An off-leash pup came running full-speed at us from about 20-25 YARDS away. What would you do? If you would freak/tense-up/get anxious, you would fit in with probably 90% of dog owners – & thats ok, it’s normal human response. But if… Continue reading
Maintenance, Maintenance, Maintenance … sounds boring , right? But, oh, so important! A fellow shelter employee was asking for advice the other day. She has three dogs (used to be four), one of them has resource guarding and “dominance/alpha” issues. She did a lot of work to resolve the resource… Continue reading
I had an interesting and “long” conversation with the driver on the bus coming home from the shelter the other day. B.Driver: “Hey, man, I saw you the other day over here walking like five dogs! Was that you? You don’t see that every day, I mean you see that… Continue reading
A lot of what I write is to help others learn/see another perspective, refresh an idea they already knew. But also in trying to help others, it makes me think about what I do so I can better myself as well. This one is definitely one of those … Dogs… Continue reading
“…like, I don’t know, but it seems like she’s mad at me.” Was the last of a text conversation I had earlier this week with one of my toughest clients (not the dog, she was awesome!). “She’s not ‘mad’ but probably frustrated, which gets you frustrated, whuch makes her more… Continue reading
As good as it is to receive them, I kind of smile and dismiss compliments. Well, I don’t really dismiss it so much as I don’t address it. I don’t mean for it to be rude, I think it’s my way of showing humility, I try to only do what… Continue reading
I hear this all the time at the OperationKindness shelter “aaw, the poor thing is so scared”, or “I feel so sorry for them”. We are an emotionally driven animal, so it’s natural for this to be our immediate response. When I hear this I try to approach the person… Continue reading
So many dogs come thru the OperationKindness shelter with things to work on. I see a lot and want to work on all of it with every one of them, which is obviously unrealistic. Today my coworker asked my opinion on what lead is best to stop leash pulling. So… Continue reading
