BE ALL THEY CAN BE

Help your dog be all he/she can be by educating yourself in the science of dog learning theory. Do it yourself and you will have a better understanding of it.
I always hoped i would be the person my dog thought i was. Think about it, in their world you control everything, food, toys, walks, outside, treats, trips to the park, you are Gods to your dogs, so treat them with respect, educate yourself so you can educate your dog.

MAKING THE COMMITMENT TO TRAIN YOUR DOG

I know Bobby has a football game today, Susie has a soccer game and Billy has Basketball practice...... I have heard it all and most of all I understand this. However, they will have many more games not just this one. Send one parent to the game and one to training class. You will not have the opportunity again that you will have when the dog is a young puppy. Like i said, the kids will likely have hundreds of games, your opportunity to shape your dogs behavior is waning as we speak, you won't have a second chance! Do it today or suffer tomorrow. Many excuses people give me because they have to miss a class are just down right not that important. Why do i feel more passionate about training your dog than you do!

BE OPEN TO LEARNING NEW THINGS

Dogs are eager to learn and change, people are naturally resistant to learn and change.
If you hire a trainer to come over to help you, you should probably open up to learning and trying new things and not so quick to argue and resist. You are the one who needs the help, not me!

NIGHTTIME HEAT

Just because the sun goes down does not mean you can go out and exercise the heck out of your dogs. It's still 95 deg. and 65% humidity @ 10:00 at night. Your pet can still get heat exhaustion at night, so take it easy! soak em down and give plenty of water if you are going to walk long distance, or jog!

CONSISTENCY IS EVEYTHING IN DOG TRAINING

Anyone who comes to class has the responsibility of educating the rest of the family in what they are supposed to be doing. That's what i preach anyway. So why does a spouse, son, daughter, grandma or grandpa, come to class and say "I WAS NOT HERE LAST WEEK OR I HAVE NOT BEEN HERE BEFORE"
What difference should that make, you should all know what's going on. How can you possibly come to a training class and not know what has happened in the previous lessons, obviously i can't go over the whole program again for you in 5 minutes to get you up to date. COME ON, throw me a bone, i'm trying to help you train your dog which means you have to try to help yourself. Instead of "my dog isn't learning anything", it's because "YOU aren't learning anything!"
That's also what the outline is for i give in Class one. That tells me your not even reading the outline. .....................................................I'm dying here!
How can your dog learn anything if everyone in the family is doing something different.
I know, your to busy texting or on the internet or going here or going there. I understand life happens, but, you have a dog that needs training, you paid me money to teach you, so show some respect and learn.
Help me............Help you!

Contact me

If you contact me on my website www.confidentk9kc.com we can talk and i can help with your issues. Also just email me for a free Ecopy of my book!

FIREWORKS AND YOUR DOG

Please do not take your dogs to fireworks displays even if you think they enjoy it. These Phobias such a Fireworks and Thunderstorm Phobia's don't crop up until the dog is well into adulthood, then you really have problems.
Some great products to help with these Phobia's are The Thundershirt, DAP Products (dog appeasing pheromones)and Drug Therapy.
DAP makes many great products for your dog and cat phobias.