Lifes a Beach

had a great off leash excursion at the beach today, only reached about 40 but with the wind it was way below freezing, we worked for about an hour and the dogs had a great time.

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I went to a State Wide Business After Hours tonight and I represented the radio station for my show, made lots of great leads for advertising and talked to lots of listeners

 

Hunter and Maxine on the treadmill

Parker is up for adoption, he is a wonderful dog, gets along with other dogs and cats

Hunter doing a rock solid down/stay in the kids play yard

Buddha, Dylan and Hunter in a sit/stay in the play yard..oh and Punkin in the background

Yenko who came in a few days ago, has been attacking the other family dog so needs a little energy rebalancing done

ahhhhh..Yenko...thats one way to get rebalanced..i was thinking about some intense training though

 

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I had  a great off leash training session today with a client who has 3 dogs, he always wanted to take his dogs off leash, and not only that but his dogs did not get along with other dogs. So today not only did we go off leash we also did it with 3 of my dogs, so today was a nice 6 dog off leash session.

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pictures from today, it was a great time

Maxine rocking out the downstay outside in the kids playyard

Zoe has come along way in 2 weeks

Remy and Zoe having fun, train hard and play hard

Dylan and Punkin in place

Hunter had some pretty intense issues prior to his board and train, not good around dogs, and not good around kids...so put him in a downstay and have Romy do some of her intense distraction training and we get some pretty good results

Gemma and Max working in PLace

New Haven or Bust

I brought home Jabba to New Haven on Sunday and I brought Max, Uma, Roca and Punkin with me.

there was always some dog trying to squeeze out Punkin, but Punkin did not move and the other dogs just had to deal with it

we did have one tshirt day this weekend and worked 4 dogs in down/stays with high levels of distractions

How proud does Hunter look at doing his down/stay, he has come a long way in the last week

Zoe in Place while other dogs are on the treadmill, Punkin is always in the back ground somewhere

this is maxine after being out in the rain and mud today

Warm days are here to stay

today was such a nice day. lots of wonderful training went on with lots of children running around the property. Thursday is home school social day which means there is about 12 kids over the house all running around being kids, which make for great distraction training

Duke enjoyed playing and resting in the sun all day today

 

Jacoby and Remy loved soaking up the sun today

 

Rossy in the middle of a 2 Akita treadmill workout

Romy running by Dylan at 37.5mph...do you see the dust being kicked up

Molly in place and she is not baying...this girl can make some noise LOL

Hunter in a rock solid downstay, you can see some of the kids in the background and on the swings, there was about 8 kids running around like crazy and Hunter did not move an inch

 

Japan we are thinking of You

What a terrible tragedy has happened in Japan, and sharing the newsline is also the wars around the world, aren't enough people dying around the world without war. Don't we have a better way to spend our tax dollars on making our counties better from within no matter which country we live in and then have enough left over to help other countries that actaully need our help and not dump money into countries into them because we want something in return.

 

After delivering a dog up in Marion MA I took some of my dogs into the bay for a quick swim

 

Jabba who came to us very dog and people aggressive spent 45 minutes in a downstay while Clover and Romy did some playing with their toys, He goes back to NYC this week, and I am feeling quite confident that we have communicated with him that lunging, biting and growling at dogs and kids is just not appropriate.

 

Today we did some off leash recall work at the beach with a 5 dog pack

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If you have not experienced off leash recall training, this is what it looks like, if you think that electric collars are mean and abusive, take a loot at this video. every dog has one on, since all dogs came back after the first HERE I did not have to use the collar on anyone, Electric collar training is a LAYERING system of training, the dogs already understand the command and it is just used in case they decide to not listen, I use it as a gentle reminder as to what the dog is supposed to be doing. It will save the dogs life one day.

 

Ronan had a great time at the beach today, running in the sand, it is incredible to watch him run

 

Clover climbing the walls for the dogs

We have a new distraction training station at the kennel, Clover climbs up the basement walls for the better training of the dogs

 

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Jacoby, Sasha and Ronan are all up for adoption does anyone want all 3? they get along great...

 

Berkley in a great sit/stay while Clover climbs the walls, He goes home this weekend and we feel strongly that he will be great around his owners kids

Maxine in the Place command with Jacoby in the background.