We woke up to a rather cold Christmas morning here at Love Wags A Tail dog training and board-and-train. I had to bundle up, but the dogs had a good time playing ball and running in the yard. Then they came inside for a bit of food toy fun. Here’s a little bit of our Christmas day. We hope you had a wonderful holiday with your pets and relations as well. If you have a new puppy, think of Love {Read More}
Happy Holidays and Christmastime
December 23, 2020 by
It looks a little like winter holidays here at Love Wags A Tail Board-and-Train. We woke up to frost on the ground and a chill in the air that was more cold than chilly! Our December puppy board-and-train graduate has gone home to show off her new obedience behaviors and her housetraining skills. Such a good Bernerdoodle! Red birds everywhere. Do you see three here? Two breeds of woodpeckers and a cardinal. And finally, one of my own dogs showing {Read More}
Stuffing A Turkey Shaped Dog Food Toy
November 20, 2020 by
If you’d like a little November Thanksgiving fun for your dog, there is a food toy on the market that’s shaped like a turkey. Food toys for dogs and puppies give them a way to spend their mental energies and is much like a pacifier for dogs. Food toys for dogs keep them busy for a while. Some dogs and puppies need training to learn to use their food toys. Make sure the food pieces you put inside are small {Read More}
Roadblocks of Housetrained Dogs
November 13, 2020 by
Sometimes, what gets in the way of either housetraining your dog or your already housetrained dog eliminating outside is not an obstacle you can train for, such as a tropical storm, hurricane, or other rainy day event. Unless you have a dog who absolutely loves the water, then when rainy days come along and your dog refuses to go out in the wet weather to go potty as usual, pull out your patience and usual habits and encourage your dog {Read More}
Dobermann Bath Time With Fox Squirrel Interruption
November 7, 2020 by
Here is something you don’t see everyday. A Fox Squirrel. This one was taking a snack out of the cup of shelled peanuts I leave for the birds. It also took its time, but I needed to give my dog a bath, so we had to interrupt. It wasn’t a huge confrontation, and the squirrel did more posturing than my dog did. Velken came to the bathtub for a piece of sausage, and while we got the bath done, the {Read More}
How To Put The 3-1 Petsafe Harness on Your Dog or Puppy
November 1, 2020 by
Sometimes the 3-1 Harness by Pet Safe can be a bit daunting to figure out, especially right out of the box. I use this harness with a lot of my board-and-trains, so I made a video to help my clients learn how to put the thing on when no one was there to help them out first-hand. I especially like the 3-1 Harness by Pet Safe for use with short-muzzled dogs such as a French Bulldog, who cannot wear a {Read More}
Halloween Dog Training and Activities 2020
October 27, 2020 by
As a pet owner, you can enjoy Halloween with your own dog, even if you’re staying at home as we are. Use the treats to teach a trick! Here’s one I taught Rambo, the Frenchie, with his Halloween dog treats while he was boarding and training with me. Love Wags A Tail Board-and-Train loves Halloween and we love rolling the camera for videos so out clients can see what theire pooches are learning through dog trarining with us. And we {Read More}
Housetraining Puppy Learns a Trick for a Treat
October 17, 2020 by
With Halloween right around the corner, conjure up some fun with easily trained tricks with your dog or puppy such as waving bye-bye or hello. Here is our housetraining graduate Havanese puppy showing off the glam ways she can flap her paw to wave hello to tricks and treats. ———- To send your dog or puppy to the Love Wags A Tail board-and-train camp for motivational learning with our cast of characters, contact me with your dog training, behavior modification {Read More}
Barrel Racing While Housetraining A Puppy
October 11, 2020 by
Luna, a Havanese puppy, came to board-and-train for housetraining with a few extra ounces on her. This puppy’s owner said one of the problems she had is her dog won’t walk in the heat, so the puppy doesn’t get enough exercise. She not only gained some extra Covid weight, but she needed a way to exercise her relatively inactive dog in the air conditioning. As I housebroke and trained this puppy, I also thought about the weight and exercise issue {Read More}
Board-And-Train Extras
September 27, 2020 by
Sometimes during a puppy’s or dog’s board-and-train, besides the basics I teach them as discussed with the owner, I find little tricks to add to their repertoire that makes for a smile. This little behavior of sneezing I captured when Luna the Havanese trained and boarded for housetraining with Love Wags A Tail board and train dog and puppy training. ———- To send your dog or puppy to the Love Wags A Tail board-and-train camp for motivational learning with our {Read More}
How Dogs Learn From Dogs
July 1, 2020 by
Puppies and dogs can and do learn from watching other animal cohorts, especially if they’re motivated and/or curious and the learning gets them something they want or like. In this video, a board-and-train puppy watched my Border Collie drink from the bird bath. Even though I have a bucket of fresh water outside for dogs daily, my BC chooses the bird bath for her source of outdoors hydration day-in and day-out. So when she showed my little board-and-train how to {Read More}
Dog Treat Surprise When Paper Towels Are Scarce
June 23, 2020 by
When there was a lack of paper towels on the grocery shelves, I used and re-used the ones I had and got creative on options when I could. The option of using bread for depressing the drippings from my hamburgers and sharing the outcome with my dogs has become a very popular shift in the Love Wags A Tail household. So much so that my dogs have convinced me to keep on doing what I’ve been doing…to save paper, of {Read More}
Monk, UFOs, Pet Dogs and Training
April 11, 2020 by
I am a big fan of the show Monk. Though they have long ago stopped making new episodes, I watch episodes from the eight recorded seasons regularly. I also think that in this hand washing, germ killing environment, the character Monk would come out ahead. Monk was called a germophobe, always using wipes after shaking someone’s hands, but isn’t that the thing to do these days to stay safe? Yes! Avoiding the hand shake is even better. In this Covid-19 {Read More}
Family Lockdown Boogie with Maisey the Family Dog
April 10, 2020 by
Here’s a bit of fun from the Buchanan family of four who are in Covid-19 lock-down like the rest of us. They make their home with their dog, Maisey, in Wellington, New Zealand, and give the world a bit of entertainment and levity during these trying times with a creative song and dance number. They’ve also been interviewed by RNZ, which is a New Zealand public broadcast service, and it’s quite fun to hear them talk about the experience of {Read More}
Professional Dog Training Help During A Pandemic
April 8, 2020 by
We are in an episode of history to-be that is remarkable. My mother passed away over 20 years ago, and I often think about what happened since then. She never knew computers, cell phones, wifi, all this stuff. And I’m not really into having to learn all the newest connection technology because there is seemingly a new app every month to set up meetings! I don’t want to waste my precious time. I’m a dog trainer, not a tech person. {Read More}
