Today after 2 weeks of intense rehab and training, Mo goes back to the Monroe CT SPCA, he will get adopted out. He was in the shelter for so long since he had this little issue of biting the hand that feeds him, and grooms him, cuts his nails, cleans his eyes etc...



the last 4 days of Mo's stay with us I would bring him to clients with me, he rode in the front seat and I wold often reach over quickly and rub his head. he would totally relax. A far cry from 2 weeks earlier when anytime a hand came towards him he would bite it.


I went over all of his training and directions and techniques to applying his meds and he will go to a forever home soon. They brought up another dog for me to work with. I will put up a picture of him tmrw as well as an initial assesment,I am having so much fun with these dogs. If anyone is looking for a great dog to adopt you can contact Fred at the Monroe CT SPCA www.SPCACT.ORG

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On Sunday it was a crazy day both inside and outside of the kennel, the story behind this picture. Leia was in Place and I had to run into the kitchen, she broke place and I asked Clover to bring her back. I then had to go outside and do some kennel things, upstairs into my office and then I remembered that Leia was told to go to place 30 minutes prior..When I went into the family room there she was in Place as she should be. The kids were running around, dogs all over the place and Leia in her Place command waiting for someone to tell her what to do..not bad for a 10 month old dog after 2 weeks of training..she went home Monday morning and is doing great

We had a new dog come onto the property yesterday..things are going well....



Uma and Max spending some inside time with Clover and Romy, they are allowed on this one couch when I put down blankets and give them the UP command..though the kids are allowed to get up on the couch and jump around and if the dogs don't like it they can leave. The kids get first choice though, keep that in mind, it is a couch for humans that dogs are allowed on.

        

I received this email this afternoon from one of my clients that was backpacking this weekend in the mountains..the gist of it is that if the dog did not stop it would have went over a cliff. We trained recall training on an e-collar but the ecollar was not used in this instance since it happened so fast. So she relied on our training to work and boy did it. For anyone that says ecollar training is mean has never actually taken their dog off leash in the situations that I often do and gotten turn on a dime results that is needed.






If you are interested in doing off leash recall training feel free to call me at 401.527.6354 it may save your dogs life one day

        

As most of you know who looked outside today we had some rain...with intense wind. What does Jeff of Solid K9 Training do? Meet a client at Narragansett Beach for some off leash recall training. The rain coming down felt like hail hitting my face. The wind was blowing at about 40mph, the surf was coming up so far on the beach..the dogs had a great time.

I don't want to hear from anyone about the weather any more..if I can train a dog in the above weather..you can get out in most weather we have to walk and train your dog.

        

Lots of new dogs in the kennel this week and we are actually booked solid for the next couple of weeks...all of the staff is working extra hours just to make sure all dogs get the most amount of training possible. Whenever I get new dogs in I always get emails asking for pictures up on the blog as soon as possible. So pictures go up today...all of the dogs are doing great...what a difference the dogs are doing after just a couple of days...it is incredible how when one of the main issues of dogs is jumping on people. Dogs don't jump on me when they come into my kennel. It is so important that we understand that dogs jumping on us is a learned behavior that most dog owners have trained their dogs to do. I have a very effective method of stopping dogs from doing this. I don't turn my back, I don't knee them in the chest, I don't grab their feet.



Watson in the Place command in my office...notice how he has a leash on..all dogs when training have a leash on...why? so if they break command we can gently grab the leash and guide them back to the position they were in



Clover takes over training Watson for a little bit..she loves to run the dogs through commands, heel, sit,down & place. She is an awesome assistant. The dogs respond to her so well...and they don't jump up on her...why????? she is a pack leader and that would be disrespectful



Watson in a rock solid downstay while Romy and Clover play like the wild children they are...this is training..real world applications without the use of food.



Watson in Place in my office while Mo is allowed to just walk around and play..Mo was playing with his squeaky ball all over the office and Watson stayed in place the whole time...


George, Watson and Fortune play during some free time during the day. All dogs when not training get to go in the play yard which is also training since they have to learn good dog/dog skills, One of the benefits of a board and train program with us is that dogs are only in kennels at night to sleep for their safety, during the day they are always training or playing.



Fortune working on his down/stay. Just arriving this week for a 2 week board and train it is incredible how fast Fortune is acclimating to my training program.



Fortune was doing down/stays from 30 feet away from me for 5 minute periods.to the right of the photo what you do not see is 10 dogs in the play yard running around, this makes for awesome distractions.


Tessie who is with us for a 2 week board and train will also lose some weight, most dogs with us lose weight since we exercise them so much...Tessie could probably stand to lose about 20lbs though. This will not happen with us but she will start her exercise and weight loss program as well as a a great training program.



I send the kennel dogs out every morning to search for mice, whichever dog kills the most mice gets to ride in the front seat of the van that day..so far George is winning



Even in my downtime I can train dogs, Max and Uma resting on the couch (yes I told them to get up on the couch, notice the blankets) Mo on the ottoman and Leia in the Place command. Mo is doing great, he goes back to the Monroe SPCA on monday to get adopted out and I will be getting another dog in from them to rehab and adopt out.


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I made a quick little PLACE video, the video shows us exactly why we use the PLACE command. I also am working with her son on how to be gentle with the newborn...i do this thing with him about how to be gentle with his new sister...at one point i show him how to straighten out his sisters shirt..this is to show him how to be very gentle with his sister...instead of being rough...it works...also you will see him put his snacks down on the floor..prior to this Ollie would eat all of his snacks..another great benefit of the PLACE command

Enjoy the video

        

I love working with my clients that have children, having 6 of my own kids and lots of dogs, who woulda thunk?

One of my clients who had a baby 6 months ago had a training session with me this week....working in giving her confidence to heal her dog properly with a double stroller as well as managing her household with 2 kids and her dog was so much fun...below is some pictures from the session. I sometimes think of video taping every one of my clients each week...lately I have been seeing about 30 clients a week along with a full kennel it makes for lots and lots of dog training stories. Changing the lives of so many people is so rewarding for me, changing the energy in a household, in a family, it is almost like taking this heavy burden off of the shoulders of people. Training dogs is one of the most fullfilling things that I have ever done.



I bring MO around to alot of my clients..he is doing great.. no more snapping..gets along with every dog he comes into contact with....SOMEONE ADOPT THIS DOG....so i can get another one in whose life needs changing.



Clients dog in a rock solid PLACE command with the new baby...this way Ollie can be involved with the family without getting in the babies face.



Max is so good with the kids...this young man loves dogs and is such a good dog player...goes around picking up balls to throw to the dogs.



yes that is Ollie flying through the air...the little boy throws the ball and the dog jumps....easy peasy



He wanted to play with MO in the worst way....I did not want him rushing up to MO but he did interact and MO had no issues with him.



Max loves coming to clients houses and hanging out. He helps me out with both humans and dogs alike.

        

So yesterday Kaiser who is one of our new house dogs is a 18 week old 4lb little black Chihuahua, check out to see what happened when he went into the play yard to learn the rules of the play yard.

        

I get many news feeds weekly and one of received this morning I found interesting, since most people are usually not aware of what an organizations true mission is and only look at the marketing campaign.

PETA Killed 97 Percent of Adoptable Pets in its Care During 2009
Hypocritical Animal Rights Group’s 2009 Disclosures Bring Pet Death Toll To 23,640

Washington, DC — Today the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 97 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2009. Despite years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the notorious animal rights group has actually increased the number of adoptable animals it kills at its Norfolk, VA headquarters, to an average of 44 pets every week.

According to public records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA killed 2,301 cats and dogs last year while only placing eight in adoptive homes. That means PETA found a home for only 1 out of every 300 animals at its headquarters. Since 1998, a total of 23,640 pets have died at the hands of PETA workers.

"PETA hasn’t slowed down its hypocritical killing machine one bit, but it keeps browbeating the rest of society with a phony ‘animal rights’ message," said David Martosko, CCF’s Director of Research. "PETA is more concerned about funding its advertising and media antics than finding homes for the animals.

On that note..check out the pictures from today of MO, he rode shotgun with me today which was great since I was able to see the fruits of all of my staff and my labor with Mo. He loved having me reach over and have me pet him, he was so comfortable and silly. He is learning to trust hands approaching him.



YO MO, he will be riding with me alot this  week, it is a big confidence booster for him. If anyone wants to adopt him let me know. He will be ready to adopt out at the end of the week, and remember I do not charge for any of my dogs.


Mo just relaxing, he is making great progress. He was in a shelter for 3 years prior to meeting me 10 days ago, we are into our second week of training and he is going to make someone a great dog. He does not need a ton of exercise, though daily walks will be necessary, he has been good with all of our staff both men and women and I am having him flooded with my kids this week to see how he does. He is INCREDIBLE with other dogs. It seems that he may have a vision issue but the original problem with his eye infections seems to have gone away. we have been treating him 3 times a day since he arrived with an eye cream as well as putting warm compresses on his eyes about 5 times a day.


Mo went with me to a clients in Newport today, we were working with some off leash recall with the client, I kept MO with a leash dragging on him, we have not worked a lot with recall yet, that was not a priority. He had a great time bopping around the field wtih us.

        

I made a quick video of Mo working with my kids directly, so what do we do we put a muzzle on him and start working the kids around. We need him to be immune to the children's contact, the way they run around and pet him. So today starts week 2 of MO-world at Solid K9 Training.

        

What an incredible day 2 was of the RI Pet show. The folks at Jenks productions put on a great pet show. The day started out so nice with lots of play and training before the trade show. Kaiser, Linda's 18 week old Chihuahua played outside with the dogs and had a great time. All of the dogs both large and small played so well with Kaiser.



Max giving Kaiser some play yard advice...what is the wise advice that Max gave Kaiser "stay away from me"



Watson with an award winning play bow..



Kaiser and Watson have become best buddies...Watson loves to run and play...



When the  kids aren't folding laundry you can find them sitting on the couch reading books...


with a wonderful helper from the audience..Uma always does great both on and off stage