She swam with her breeder and dog family (including a papillon!) before she came to me – but she hasn’t had any interest in swimming. On the warmer winter days she would wade in with Griffin and today she finally went in! I love when dogs enjoy swimming – it’s Read more…
Over the weekend we did our first seminar together! We were at the training center for a Shaping seminar with Fanny Gott. We spent some time working on her heeling and retrieve. Saturday had a lot of auditors and I was very happy with how attentive she was. And Sunday Read more…
Last Thursday we went to talk to a group of local boy scouts about pet training. As always, I went in with a plan but I was also ready to quickly change the plan depending on their interests and how the conversation went. The leader had prompted me to talk Read more…
I’ve not done well sharing about our training! There are many reasons for that – mostly that we have so much going on that I decide to spend the extra time on training than typing. We’ve taken some video for class and lesson materials. Tonks is a very athletic puppy Read more…