Busy at Tugs By Tena

Holy cow, it must be coming up on agility season or some such fun because I’ve gotten lots of tug orders in the last week–6 orders for a total of 40 tugs. So, I’ve been braiding and braiding and braiding! Tug making is a surprising workout! I never...

New Read-To-Tug Toys

I’ve been busy the last few days cutting fleece and getting started braiding some new “Ready To Tug” toys. These toys will go up in our store for people to browse and purchase tugs that are already made and are ready to ship. The cool thing about...

Tugging for Training…

I’m of the opinion that most dogs who have highly arousing jobs (herding dogs, hunting dogs, police dogs, performance dogs) must learn how to work while in drive mode.  Border collies learn that they must have some impulse control around stock, that they cannot...

To tug or not to tug…

*Face Palm* Hey Rio, did you know that…. “If you play tug with your dog, you are going to make him aggressive” “If you play tug with your dog, he’s going to become dominant” “If you play tug with your dog, he’s going to...