Please join the Positive Pet Training Blog Hop on the first Monday of each month beginning next week, January 6th, hosted by Cascadian Nomads, Dachshund Nola & Tenacious Little Terrier. Since January is National Train Your Dog Month, we encourage posts themed with Train Your Dog Month.com's motto "Make training a part of everyday life with your dog." However, any posts about positive based training with any pets are welcome in the blog hop this and every month.
 Grab the badge and join the positive pet training community on January 6th. | Typist: Bethany Like every Monday morning, yesterday I was awoken before dawn and laid awake for hours listening to the neighbors dog frantically barking at the garbage, recycling and compost pick-up trucks. And like all the mornings of the week that this poor dog barks crazily before sunrise, the neighbors words to me about how she has spent "thousands of dollars on training" and "nothing helps this dog" echoed in my head. I lay in bed listening to 'R' Blood on the Tracks Boys snoring through the ruckus and wondered what exactly this neighbor tried in training her dog. Did she really try everything? |
| Back when research showed that seeds were unhealthy for captive birds and pellets became widely available, I began to switch Bobbie Birdie to pellets with the help of my avian vet. But Bobbie was a seed addict. I tried everything to get him off the seed habit. Mixes, hand-feeding, cold turkey... everything. Until I read an article about switching seed addict birds to pellets that quite simply stated "you haven't tried everything." So, after two years of working at seed addict reform, Bobbie Birdie and I trudged on, and he did eventually give up the |  Bobbie Birdie, recovering seed addict, 2010. |
seed habit. Bobbie even grew to enjoy munching on vegetables. The very best reward for all of my hard work in training Bobbie to eat pellets and fresh foods was that he lived a much longer and healthier life.
My gratitude to the simple pet training inspiration gained from that article I read decades ago is part of the idea behind the launch of the Positive Pet Training Blog Hop. I wanted there to be a blog hop where bloggers could share positive training ideas and experiences and readers would gain knowledge that inspired them to spend quality training time with their pets and, most importantly, to never give up. Maybe someday my neighbor will stumble across an article about how to desensitize dogs to truck and car noises and her dog will snore through the early morning alley noise like Wilhelm, Brychwyn and Huxley do.
My gratitude to the simple pet training inspiration gained from that article I read decades ago is part of the idea behind the launch of the Positive Pet Training Blog Hop. I wanted there to be a blog hop where bloggers could share positive training ideas and experiences and readers would gain knowledge that inspired them to spend quality training time with their pets and, most importantly, to never give up. Maybe someday my neighbor will stumble across an article about how to desensitize dogs to truck and car noises and her dog will snore through the early morning alley noise like Wilhelm, Brychwyn and Huxley do.
Garbage trucks? Birds singing? Dogs barking? Don't bother me; I'm sleeping.
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