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NEW CLASS: Adolescence: Taming the Teenage Dog

"Taming the Teenage Dog" is a 6 week course designed to help you manage adolescent behavior and build the foundation needed to have a wonderful relationship with your dog.  Our Teens will learn sit, down, leave it, recalls off of distractions, and loose leash walking. Dogs will also learn how to build self control while socializing with other dogs. 

Please Note: This class will be limited to 6 dogs that are five months old and older

Date: Monday, August 22nd - October 3rd

Time: 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Location: Taming the Wild Side Training Facility

Cost: $100 for a six week class. Cash or checks only please.

Equipment: Easy to eat treats for your dog, water, water bowl.

To sign up for this class, please click the following link:  Taming the Teenage Dog

"How to Greet a Dog" - FREE Download

Great info on how to greet dogs - FREE for one week only! We can all use that especially our kids!! Enjoy!!

To download Dr. Yin's book, visit her blog by clicking the following link:  How to Greet a Dog

Weekly Taming Tip!

Each week we'll share a Taming Tip for you, your family and your friends to do with your dog(s)! These tips will help teach your dog real world manners in a fun way. Leave us a comment and tell us how it went!

Taming Tip #18:

Practice one behavior that your dog already knows, but add distance to it.  Such as, "coming when called", "sit", or "down".  Reward your dog for performing the behavior and staying as you increase the distance, but remember to increase the distance slowly and do not always add distance but "Ping Pong" your distance.  You "Ping Pong" distance by taking two steps away, four steps away and then only take one step away, then you might go five steps away, keep the number of steps random and do not always increase, make it easier for your dog by decreasing the distance, and keep the number of steps random.  Remember to click and treat to help your dog succeed!

Emergency Long Distance Downs

Check out our new video!  Learn a fun way to train emergency sits and downs and see how it could save your dog's life!  Training important behaviors can all be done through games, clickers and targeting!  Everyone loves strengthening their sits and downs in the hoops!! Once the dogs learn that there is a great reward in offering behavior in the hoops, they could not wait to get there!! So always have fun training, make it a game, relax and enjoy what your dog has to offer! If they make a mistake, it is not a big deal, just break the training into smaller steps!! Such a fun way to teach, but the importance of the behavior could be enormous!! Great job Advanced Family Dog class!!

Thanks to you, WE WON!

The results are in and we came out on TOP!  Thank you for all your support and votes.  You did an awesome job!  A special thanks goes to the volunteers at Col. Potter Cairn Rescue Network for supporting us in the contest!  The RESCUE DOGS are the REAL winners here!

If you would like to see the final results, please click the following link:  Final Results

Here is our WINNING video!  A big thank you goes to our Advanced Family Dog FLEX class for participating in the video.  You did great!

Please Keep Voting!

There are two days left to vote in the Dog Saving Network's Easy Button Contest!  You can vote once per day until July 25th.  We are very appreciative of everyone for voting and passing the link on to their friends and friends of friends!  Whether we win or lose, we know the real winners and that's the rescue dogs and THEY are the reason for the contest!

Please click the following link to watch and vote for ID #7:  Show me the video!

Didn't our Advanced Family Dog FLEX class do great?!?  Thanks guys for making an awesome video and helping increase awareness of rescue groups and rescue dogs!!

Weekly Taming Tip!

Each week we'll share a Taming Tip for you, your family and your friends to do with your dog(s)! These tips will help teach your dog real world manners in a fun way. Leave us a comment and tell us how it went!

Taming Tip #17:

Primp and pamper your dog for a day by giving him / her a massage and brushing their coat.  Have your treats ready and if your dog has areas where he doesn't like to be touched like his paws, ears, tail and / or tummy give him small pieces of higher value rewards such as cheese or chicken when you brush or massage those areas.  Have fun and enjoy your spa day with your dog!

We're in the TOP THREE!

Check out the video our Advanced Family Dog Flex class made for the Dog Saving Network's Easy Button Contest!  Please click the link below to watch and vote.  You can vote once a day through July 15th, please vote and help us WIN!

Here's the link:  Taming the Wild Side's Easy Button Video

We are entry #7.

Parking Garage, Elevators and Stairs - OH MY!

This was our third and last Therapy Dog Field Trip.  We visited a parking garage to work on obedience in a new environment, to practice walking up and down stairs and getting on elevators.  We also practiced good car manners.  Congratulations to our Therapy Dog Graduates!


A "stay" in new surroundings.

"Stay" for Izzy

Deke walking into the elevator!  He gets clicked and lots of treats once inside.

Janice and Izzy trying out the stairs in a tight stairwell.  Izzy did not mind the stairs!

Deke also not minding the stairs!

Izzy goes into the elevator!

Taking a break from the elevators and practicing a little loose leash walking.

Baselone wasn't too sure about the stairs.  He was clicked and treated for every step he offered.  A few more runs and the stairs weren't so bad.

Baselone's turn in the elevator.  He is so big we had to watch out for his tail!

Nice down, we are beginning to work on manners at the car.

Very nice stays!

Working on "stay" with Baselone.

Everybody "up" or "load" getting in only on cue

We have conquered the elevators!