Dogs in Crates, ates, ates, ates…..

Sadie hates her crate. It is known. I have not been diligently working on this. Our lives could be much easier if she liked being crated. But my life would be more complex if I got really diligent in crate training her. For several months over the summer we fed her exclusively in the crate. [...]

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Nigel

my sweet. Good photos of black face dogs are hard. I feel like I just won a photo contest. Don’t you just want to eat him up!

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My dogs ate fly bait

I suppose it was irresistible to them, a smell even more tantalizing than dirty socks. They gave me a look like, why don’t you train us with this, it tastes like heaven. This one remaining trap must have blown off the top of the backers rack and into the yard in all this wind. I picked up the trap pieces and the leaves [...]

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Keeping the dogs in the yard

The dogs were getting loose. Last week, while working on the stone wall, I opened the gate and accidently let the dogs out. I ran out calling their names. When I got to the side walk, they were running toward me from four houses away. They came all the way to me, and I picked [...]

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Dog Training

My husband and I are taking our dogs to dog school. We go to Humaner Trainer run by Margaret Johnson. Her class is structured as four levels each lasting six-weeks. So we will be attending weekly dog class from now until December. I picked Humaner Trainer for three main reasons. 1) She’s very experienced. She’s an [...]

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