It’s a new year and maybe you have a new puppy who needs puppy training. Or you have adopted a dog who needs dog training. Love Wags A Tail board-and-train can accommodate either. We have board-and-train packages for puppies who need housetraining or obedience training or both, and if your pet is an adult dog, we can help with dog training and behavior modification, too. All our training is done humanely without pain. And it’s never too late too start {Read More}
Holiday Smiles and High Fives From Love Wags A Tail Board-and-Train
December 24, 2018 by
Happy holidays to you and your pet dogs from Love Wags A Tail board-and-train dog training. We wish you the very best of times spent with your pooch over the holidays and of course, all year round. Remember, if the goings-on get too exciting, put your dog in a quiet place such as a crate or a back room where he can settle down. Offer him a food toy to help distract him from what he’s missing out on. Helen {Read More}
Trade The Poisonous Pointsettia For A Festive Red Hibiscus Plant
December 22, 2018 by
I love the red and green color combination of the holiday season. And as much as I enjoy a pretty pointsettia, the plant is well known for being a poison to dogs. I love my dogs much more than to take a chance on having a poisonous plant around, so I went a different route this year. I bought a red hibiscus plant. Not only is the plant safe for dogs to eat, people can eat them too, and they {Read More}
On Course for Housetraining 123
December 20, 2018 by
When I get a call for information on my Housetraining packages, as soon as I listen to the potential client’s side of the story, I understand why the dog or puppy is not progressing on the housetraining. I can hear the clues in the symptoms the caller presents and it pains me to know that without a sound houstraining plan, the dog or puppy will continue to eliminate everywhere and anywhere while the owners get more and more frustrated. I {Read More}
Velken’s Trick Dog Title – Novice
December 14, 2018 by
This is my puppy Velken, a Dobermann, at 145 days old. I taught him behaviors and rehearsed them everyday since I got him on Sunday, Sept 26, 2018. Most days I just took one meal and did a lesson in the morning with him. He loves to learn. And so he and I earned his Novice Trick Dog Title at a tad over 5 months old. It’s not hard to teach your dog behaviors, but it does take dedication. One {Read More}
Training The Family Dog
December 10, 2018 by
A potential client called me recently who wanted me to train his dog so that the pooch would leave him alone when he came home after work. This dog owner was fine when his dog greeted him, and was all right taking him outside for an after-work potty break, and feeding the dog was acceptable, too; but after that, this dog owner wanted to be left alone. I explained to him that yes, he worked hard all day and came {Read More}
Fetching Dog Toys
December 5, 2018 by
What I find most interesting about training the wonderful board-and-train dogs and puppies who come through Love Wags A Tail board-and-train dog training is the variety of pet dogs whose owners love them to pieces. Some owners have clearly signed onto one breed and after the lifespan of their dog wanes, they grieve, and eventually find another puppy or rescue of the same breed to share their life with. Some owners find mixed breeds to their liking. So many things {Read More}
Pet Dog Training vs Pet Dog Management
December 3, 2018 by
Sometimes a solution to a challenge we need to attend to with our pet dogs can best be solved via management rather than training. We all have a limited amount of energy and time, so when we can find a short cut to a behavioral solution, which is satisfactory and conclusive, and every bit humane, then by all means, let’s use it. One of my management techniques and strategies is gating when I’m making meals for my 7 dogs. All {Read More}
Maple, Weston Graduate
November 19, 2018 by
Maple is a puppy from Puerto Rico, who luckily got adopted by a loving home in Weston, Florida. Not long after she settled into her new life, her owners decided the best thing for her was to get a board-and-train education through Love Wags A Tail’s puppy board-and-train boot camp. During Maple’s 3-week program, she learned housetraining, sit, down, stay, come when called, go to her crate, walking on leash, and she socialized with Love Wags A Tail host dogs, {Read More}
Teach Your Dog To Catch
November 8, 2018 by
One of the fun behaviors I work on in between formal lessons with enrolled Love Wags A Tail board-and-train dogs and pups is catch. Unless I get a dog who’s been around the block and has already learned how to catch, pet dogs and puppies who arrive for training need to learn the skill of catching. Learning to catch is a good endeavor for your pooch and a skill to share with each other for a lifetime. To start, I’d {Read More}
In The Moment With Dogs
October 8, 2018 by
Meditation is proven to be beneficial to us humans. I sometimes wonder if getting lost in a project such as gardening, writing, or decorating doesn’t give us similar benefits. Both meditation and creative focus removes the “what-ifs” and “what’s happeneds” from our mental spotlights and replaces them with in-the-moment experiences. I only have to look to my dogs to see examples of this. And puppies, especially, prove to us time and time again, that discovery of something new can create {Read More}
Dogs Play Like They Mean It
June 26, 2018 by
After our training work at Love Wags A Tail dog training, our dogs get plenty of play time, and they play like they mean it. Dogs often use skills from their deeply embeded feral software to play games. Like tossing a prey item up in the air, which our adolescent board-and-trainer, Aussiedoodle Magic demonstrates in this video. Or chasing each other, as if they were practicing chasing a prey item. Here Magic plays that game of chase with our Director {Read More}
The Hyper Pet’s LickiMat Fail
June 11, 2018 by
We bought the Hyper Pet’s LickiMat to try out on a Sheltie pup to help boost her confidence. The results of our test with the mat and our gentle pup weren’t favorable. Here are the claims of the Hyper Pet’s LickiMat Line. 1. Hyper Pet’s LickiMat Line is designed to deliver a medical free way to promote calm behavior in your pet while home alone or during stressful times, like storms. We say that dogs should not be left alone {Read More}
Teaching Dogs To Play Inside and Outside
May 20, 2018 by
On a lovely Sunday afternoon, my dogs relax. Lazy Sunday at Love Wags A Tail Dog Training from Helen Verte Schwarzmann, CTC on Vimeo. Unless you’re fine with your dogs using your house and furniture as a playground, racetrack, or trampoline, then you’ll need to teach them that the inside of the house is where either no play is allowed, or play is subdued. Subdued play can include chewing on dog toys or food toys, playing a controled game of {Read More}
Even Dogs Break The Norm
May 13, 2018 by
What makes you feel good? Do you do something a little different from the norm, but it works for you? When I played tennis as a high school student, before I knew any better, I used to do my backhand by twisting my forehand upside down. When I stroked the backhand, my thumb would face the ground. I had a mean backhand and forehand then. When I took private lessons, I was admonished for using such a technique. I was {Read More}
