• Is your dog an escape artist?
• When your dog’s “fun tricks” come in handy
• What do dogs have to do with the Academy Awards?
• Links and Social Stream Activity

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Is your dog an escape artist?

As warmer weather takes hold, it’s easy to feel a bit of spring fever and want to get outdoors more and stay inside less. The same holds true for our dogs, and spring can be a time when the escape artists are at their most active.

 

If your dog is an escape artist, he might dart out the front door when someone opens it. He might know how to hit the handle on the screen door when you have the main door open to see outside and let in some fresh air. He might crash through the screen when the temptation of a squirrel or another dog is too much to resist. He might jump the fence. He might dig out under the fence. There are many variations of the escape artist’s escape plan.

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When your dog’s “fun tricks” come in handy

Some people don’t like teaching their dogs “tricks”. Somehow, it’s just doesn’t seem dignified or worth putting in the effort to teach these frivolous cues that have no value. Or do they?

 

Whether something is considered a trick or a useful cue is really all a matter of perspective. Something that seems like a useless trick to one person can be a very valuable cue to another. Take service dogs for example. Teaching your own dog to turn on and off the light might seem useless to you, but to someone not able to easily do that herself, the “trick” might be very valuable.

Romeo practicing his retrieve/fetch

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What do dogs have to do with the Academy Awards?

If you watched the Academy Awards in February, you might have seen Uggie, the Jack Russell Terrier, on stage with the rest of the cast when The Artist won for Best Picture. Normally, dogs don’t play a role in the Academy Awards, and it’s odd these days to see a dog actually at the Awards ceremony.

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Links and Social Stream Activity

Sue Brown, MNM, CDBC, CPDT-KA and Ed Soehnel, The wife/husband team of The Light of Dog, with Jahzara, our Greyhound and Romeo, our Vizsla. 

Sue conducts all training for Love My Dog Training, our business in metro-Denver, Colorado, since 2004. Sue has been providing dog training and behavior counseling since 1996. She is a Certified Dog Behavior Consultant and Certified Professional Dog Trainer with over 15 years of experience. She has written for the APDT Chronicle of the Dog and was a contributor to the book The Association of Pet Dog Trainers Top Tips from Top Trainers: 1001 Practical Tips and Techniques for Successful Dog Care and Training published in 2010. She also writes a bimonthly Ask the Trainer column for the Colorado Greyhound Adoption newsletter and is the the Co-Founder of the Colorado Dog Trainers Network, which provides networking, training and dog -related education, business education, and referral sources for trainers in Colorado. Her designations include: approved Canine Good Citizen (CGC) Evaluator; Certified Dog Behavior Consultant through the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants; Certified Professional Dog Trainer through the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers; and, a Professional Member and the Greeter for the State of Colorado of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers.

Ed’s background is leading consumer product/service companies, from start-up through exit.  He has a strong skill set in marketing, sales, branding, product development and finance.  He splits his time between working on The Light Of Dog and Love My Dog Training , and as a consultant to start-up and small consumer product companies.  Ed has an MBA from the University of Denver.

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