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Typist: Bethany
For many years I have complained about how terribly the dogs behave when someone comes to the door. Those same years have included me doing nothing consistent about teaching them how to behave as I would like them to. Bad trainer. In my defense, it seemed to me that teaching the dogs to behave when they hear someone on the porch was a two person job. So not only would I need to consistently train alternative behaviors to going bonkers when someone is at the door but another person would have to be patiently available to help me. That sounds like a lot of effort, doesn't it? Lazy trainer. Well, I am just physically lazy. My trainer brain is busy. For example, I had literally a million ideas for what I wanted to train for the Positive Reinforcement Training Week Teach Your Pet Something New In Ten Minutes challenge. When I settled on doing some practical training, as opposed to tricks or competition work, training polite someone at the door behavior was the most nagging, hence, obvious choice. It would be easy to schedule someone to help me with just one ten minute training session, right? Even "training is your hobby" Jason could be coerced to be briefly available. So yesterday, treats in one pocket and a clicker in another, I spent ten minutes on training the dogs to behave when someone comes to the door. After years of laziness and inconsistency, ten minutes changed absolutely everything. I am honestly shocked at how much I learned in ten minutes. Oh, and the dogs learned something too.
One important thing I learned during our teach your dog something new in ten minutes training session was that Wilhelm's door bark is triggered by the opening of the storm door. I am not sure if this is due to the desensitization work I had already done on knocking, porch footsteps and the actual front door or if there is something about that door sound that he doesn't like, but this epiphany has us well on our way to actually achieving quiet when someone comes to the door. Best of all I learned that in just ten minutes a day I can achieve peace when a visitors come. Deep down, I already knew this. Anything can be taught to any dog with consistent ten minute per day positive reinforcement training sessions. However, there are certain skills it takes two to train. I am thrilled to have learned that I am enough of a distraction for the dogs in the beginnings of teaching them to be calm on when the door opens. I have no more excuses for being a bad, lazy trainer. Even a stubborn human like me can learn something new in ten minutes.
Have you ever had a dog training epiphany?
Did you play the Train Your Dog Something New In Ten Minutes Game?
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Typist: Bethany
In just one average day, I often take hundreds of photos of adorable dachshund Wilhelm, handsome corgi Brychwyn, majestic collie Huxley, photogenic cat Amelia and theatrical cockatoo Leo. It is a massive task to peruse through all those pet photos and decide what to keep, delete, post, etc. Readers and followers have asked for years to see outtakes of photo shoots with the pets and I have wanted to share some silly photographs that didn't quite make the cut. This weeks foolish themed photo challenge seemed like the perfect opportunity to show off some wacky outtakes of the pets. It is fun for a photographer to reveal a bit about her process. Except this is a pet photographer who didn't take very many pictures this week. Unbelievable, I know, but it's true. It is really embarrassing for me to admit but I had a whopping two foolish outtakes from the one photo shoot I did with the dogs this week. I plan to share those pictures on Facebook in the coming days but as I came to the realization that I had nothing for this weeks photo challenge, the phrase "ship of fools" came into my head. So yesterday this foolish photographer with no foolish photographs, a vessel without a plot, took her dogs to a park in our neighborhood for a photo shoot on a ship. I am so glad that dogs don't judge... and that they are so, super cute.
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The Wildness of Three Canines With Wild Calling! Dog Food In The Wilderness | #TheArtofNutrition4/2/2015
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Typist: Bethany
When we travel the dogs usually eat meals in their soft crates but assembling dog crates doesn't always work with our traveling space and schedule, especially while camping. Feeding the dogs might not be a particularly memorable part of a pet friendly vacation for most people but I clearly remember every time I have fed dogs a meal in the wilderness. When dogs enjoy their meals in the great wide open, it seems wildly natural. Recently watching Wilhelm, Brychwyn and Huxley enjoy a high quality protein Wild Calling!® dog food meal outside, I really saw the wild in them. Granted, it was an absolutely adorable beastliness but cute untamed is still wild. It made me proud that the dogs feral outdoor dining experience was all natural, made in the USA food with animal protein as the first ingredient. The Art of Nutrition that Wild Calling! has used to create wildly different pet foods, including innovative GlycoEdge technology to provide dogs with a low glycemic diet, means the dogs meal in the wilderness makes them and me ferociously happy about how healthy the entire experience is.
Wilhelm, Brychwyn and Huxley were treated to a meal of Whitefish Recipe dry food and Grassland canned food from Wild Calling! It takes an extremely delicious food to draw these three outdoor loving dogs away from the wonders of nature. I doubt the dogs Wild Calling! hungry noses and stomachs cared about what made this wilderness meal especially nutritious. My peace of mind at meal time, besides just enjoying the fresh air with my best friends, was because I have learned a lot about the brands real, honest, true quality.
One of my favorite parts of traveling with pets is all of the wonderful memories we make together. Seeing my pets enjoy wild places like the Niagara River Gorge and the Grand Canyon fills my heart with untamed joy. Obviously, such joy can continue with taking the best care of the pets health, by feeding them excellent food. Wild Calling! even cares about my dogs food having rich meat proteins that support muscle growth and increase energy. I have fed the dogs meals in the snow, on rocks, on sand, in forests and in deserts. With the nutritional health of the right food, the dogs will continue to accompany me on such varied journeys for many years to come. There is something about watching the dogs eat in nature that really makes me take notice of the wild in them.
When have you enjoyed seeing the wild in your dogs?
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