Warm days are here to stay

If I had a dollar for every trained dog I saw at the Hartford Pet show I would not be able to buy my daily iced coffee with 2 shots of esspresso from Starbucks…why because the cost $4.00 and I only had 3 dogs with me….but there must have been 500 other dogs at the…

Yesterday was interesting..I did not schedule any clients ..the reason being is that Linda was going to go to NYC with one of my daughters (Olivia) and pick up things from her apartment. Olivia is going to stop modeling for the moment and travel. She was in Costa Rica for 5 weeks and got the…

As a dog trainer who travels the country training dogs and working with 20-30 families a week in their homes it is so important for folks to understand how a dog thinks. And when there is no authority figure present, the kind of chaos and bad behavior that can happen. Remember the bad behavior of…

Today was a great day for the dogs to run on the beach, I was up in Newport so on the way home I stopped at Easton’s Beach and ran the dogs off leash. There is nothing that brings a smile to my face then dogs running off leash on the beach Max on the…

Yesterday when I was at the airport waiting to pick up Oliver from Cleveland I saw a family in the baggage check area sitting down with a maltese puppy…the puppy was just flown in from Florida. The breeder was with the dog and obviously flew with it on the plane. The family had 3 young…

I am shocked. Astounded. And on that first day, they came home — in tears. And that evening, a simple “kennel up” and both dogs walked peacefully and willingly into their crates and I was able to shut the doors. No whining, no crying, nothing. They slept, snoring. I don’t know whatever became of that other Hermione and Angus, but these new “improved” dogs, these wonderful creatures that are a joy to be around and who look to us now with love and respect, so willing to please — we think we’ll keep them!