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No more Premier, so now what?!
In 2010 Premier Pet Products, maker of Ez-Walk Harness, Tug-a-Jug, Busy Buddies toys, and many others, was sold to Radio Systems Corporation for some huge sum of money. Radio Systems Corporation is one of the leading manufacturers of shock collars and other...
read more5 Ways You Can Train Like a "pro"
I've been trying to give all of my students some tips to improve their mechanical skills as trainers. Over the last few sessions I have come up with my "5 Tips to Successful Training". These are just very simple changes in the mechanics that can make the world of...
read moreMore fun than a barrel of monkeys
I have a few gift cards for stores like Petco and Petsmart that I need to use--since I don't generally shop there it's a bit of an "out of the way" adventure. I don't feed any of the food or treats they carry... and their toys and stuff are so over-priced that I...
read moreDogtoberfest…
Well, my world is going to be full of trick training over the next two weeks... perhaps to a fault. I'm hoping to keep up on my blog posts... but I may end up using some videos and photos...which I've been told is not a cop-out. This year I'll be doing two demo's for...
read moreSurviving the Cone Of Shame
Would you believe me if I told you that when I have to bust out the Cone of Shame that I have two dogs who run toward me with wagging tails? Well, it may be a BIT of a stretch... until this week, I only had one dog who did this...but now I have two. Bandit has been...
read moreThere's WHAT in your Kong?!
Tonight I discovered a Kong mixture that stumped Rio and eventually made him give up--Shayne has now been working on it for 2 hours and there is still some left inside. So what exactly has given my dogs hours and hours of entertainment? Well, I lined the Kong with...
read moreAnd then there is Rio….
This is the face that I see almost every night. His lips get pushed up, his teeth are all showing, his eyes are half glossed over from sleep, ears all over the place... yeah he's just that special! Does that face just not scream "tRouble maker!" I think it certainly...
read moreHow I came to hate right turns…and how that connects to dog training!
I think I have mentioned it before, but I drive a Ford Focus ZX5. I love my car, the biggest complaint I had when I first bought the car was that it has the most annoying turn-signal noise ever. I mean it. It sounds like an exaggerated Snapple bottle-cap ... or......
read moreUmmm… who is that and what did you do with Shayne?
This past weekend was crazy busy. Success Just Clicks, Tugs by Tena, and Steel City Disc Dogs--AKA my three different identities--all went up to a fundraiser event about an hour away. Thankfully my mom volunteered to help me out since I could not fit the dogs and...
read moreCONTEST TIME!
As I mentioned the other day, I started selling "Kitty Kick-Bags" as a way to reuse fleece scraps I would normally throw away. I also mentioned that I would be doing a buy-one, give-one program. Well, at the end of last week the first set of ten bags sold, so it's...
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