People love rules. And dog trainers love routines. Can you remember those old obedience class homework handouts: practice 15 automatic sits, heel forward with three left turns and three right turns, practice two fasts and two slows, practice sit/stay for three minutes and down/stay for five minutes on lead with distractions. I can. Taped each [...]
Syracuse Obedience Training Club, Inc. will be hosting its second annual Doggone Good Day on Saturday (tomorrow, January 23) from 9a.m. to 4 p.m. at their training building, 6392 Deere Road, Syracuse NY. Activities at this event are specially planned to help the public meet owners and dogs of various dog breeds, representatives of local [...]
Image by The Pack via Flickr Carol Lea Benjamin, trainer and author, once wrote in her AKC Gazette column “Dog Trainer’s Diary” that when she was stuck in a training challenge with her own dog, she’d ask herself how she would solve the problem for a paying client – someone who was expecting effective and [...]
