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New Year's Eve Safety Tips
New Year's Eve Safety Tips Each year I hear tragic stories of dogs escaping, or biting, or panicking during the scary clamor that happens at midnight. Between fireworks, people screaming, pots clanging together, and those little "popper" toys, it can seem like...
read moreA Nutrition Challenge
A while back, on the original blog, I spent a week writing about selecting a dog food (here's the first post in the nutrition series). Today I found out a certain brand of food was going to be releasing a "grain free" variety of their food and after looking at the...
read moreNewsletter news
Can't get enough of Success Just Clicks training information from the blog? Well, it just so happens that you can now sign up for our quarterly newsletter to get even more information. Each of our newsletters feature 2-4 articles about training, future events, or...
read moreDebuting New Tugs by Tena Store
I'm really quite excited to announce a new way to purchase Tugs by Tena items. If you haven't already noticed the "Storefront" tab, you should take a moment to just look to the left of the blog tab--yeah, it is right next to the blog tab, I'm not sure how you could...
read moreChristmas gone to the dogs….
So here's our Christmas in a photographic nutshell... First we opened a secret santa gift ... Shayne and Rio unpacked the box nicely...sort of... Their favorite toy was a squeaky snake with cool squeakers... they also got a squeaky tennis ball, salmon treats, and a...
read moreHappy Howlidays!!
We would like to wish you a wonderful and safe Howliday season!! And just for a laugh, a silly photo:
read moreOoo goodie, a Former Foster Update! With Pics!!
Well, I woke up yesterday morning to an excellent email from Chase's new family and I figured you may like to hear an update and see some great photos! I'm excited to announce that Chase's new family is absolutely smitten with him. He has settled in beautifully and is...
read more5 MORE Tips to Train Like A Pro
A while back I posted 5 tips to help you train more effectively-- 5 Ways To Train Like a Pro. I talked about timing, rate of reinforcement, quiet hands, not repeating cues, and precision placement of rewards. These are definitely things I'm regularly mentioning to my...
read moreGotta Practice In the Real World
"He does great in here but as soon as we step outside he's a raging lunatic on the leash! I just don't understand!" The trainer answer is that dogs do not generalize well. Basically this means that dogs do not automatically understand that the rules in one place (say...
read moreBest Behaviors for Parties
With the start of Hanukkah tonight (Happy Hanukkah to my Jewish pals out there!), comes the start of the holiday family party season. Along with the awkward family party photos can come some awkward family apologies for inappropriate canine behavior. I once heard a...
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