Wendeli

Hey there,

I'm helping scope out a breeder for a make a wish kid who wants an ESA black lab. I'm wondering if anyone can offer some breeders in the CA area that would be willing to work with me to help him find his dog. MAW can pay for the dog; they aren't allowed to give service animals to kids, but an ESA needs no training. However, a breeder that focuses on breeding dogs with service animal potential seems like a good fit for his request, in the situation that they'd like to pursue further training and train the dog for tasks. I'm waiting on some responses back from the family on whether they want an adult dog or puppy, but I thought I'd start looking into this now.

The dog will nee

I'm currently working on agility training with my pup and the bane of my existence is a multi-wrap around a cone. We practice outside every day. Today, someone came up to us and asked me if I was a dog trainer and was available for training lessons while we were practicing. My dog barked at me because he was still doing his wraps and no treats were forthcoming, but he never went up to the person and got into a heel and sit when I told him to. He even did a down while the person was talking about what tricks his dog could do and said down :').

A year ago when he was about 6 months old, he would've first, never been off leash anywhere because he became selectively deaf when his name was cal

We were walking down a busy suburban street; pup took a detour into a bush, not uncommon, but then he started barking. He only barks for things that are out of place and it's usually worth a look at, so I checked it out and found a middle aged guy passed out with a bag of three beers in his hand. My dog's bark can wake the dead, so it freaked me out when he didn't move an inch with Kuma nonstop barking and also didn't budge when I tried to call him awake. Called the police, cops came and managed to wake him up. I left when the paramedics came, but I'm pretty sure he's fine and just got black out drunk and passed out.

I don't think Kuma's going to find anything/anyone quite as strange anytim

Was just in agility class today and the instructor mentioned an interesting note I thought I'd pass on. To preface it, almost all of the class is off leash/ leash on but not being held with puppies and young dogs and the instructor's dog is always stationed on his bed nearby watching her train. Needless to say there were a lot of puppies that got distracted and kept trying to greet her dog and crawl into his bed to say hi.

To get to my point, the instructor mentioned that in these situations where two dogs are greeting nose to nose, it's in their best interest not to pull them away from each other by the leash. The sensation of pulling the dog away while they're facing each other cre

Anyone successfully taught their dog to tug outside when they can tug inside?

My kees will tug and will fetch inside the house. He tugs enthusiastically whenever asked to and will also bring the toy up to me and ask to play sometimes too. I can extend the tugging to outside my door and 50m radius, but if I try to take him to a park the tugging stops. I'm pretty sure this is because he's more distracted and the tugging is not a good enough reward to refocus him. He is very food motivated and we don't have the same issue with focus when food is there. Can be let off leash, has a great recall, ignores people and dogs, will do all the tricks he knows and exercises as long as food is involve

We have two interns joining our team in a month and I want to make it fun for them and give them something to enjoy even though they're both working remotely. One is a junior BS and one is a PhD student. I'm in the same age range give or take as them (24) and did an intern conversion at my company before joining, so I know it's useful to be able to talk with people in the company. We're a huge company so there's definitely events for all interns, but if I recall most of them sucked and what I liked most was socializing with interns in my group and younger employees.

I was thinking of

1. Making an intern/ncg/ intern conversions group chat on slack for them to ask questions on
2. online b

I'm looking for a portable product that can deter dogs from approaching if they're charging towards mine and also get them off of my dog if they manage to make contact/ attack. Does anyone have a product they know works which I can cook onto my leash or put in a small purse?

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We're in the middle of covid right now and all off leash dog areas are on leash required right now, but I still manage to encounter that idiot owner who lets their uncontrollable lab go off leash and does nothing to stop him from charging, growling and going for my dog's back side. I had to kick a 100 lb dog to get him off mine and then even when we were leaving and after I had yelled at the owner to lea

I noticed he was popping up in fan art for AC and realized he's actually really popular. So why is he popular? He's on my island and honestly is a smug and kind of plain squirrel. He has a cute house, but most villagers do. I just don't really see the appeal and would rather have unique characters like Zucker instead. So what's the big appeal for other people and why is he so popular?

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Playing around in portrait mode and this picture reminded me of those back to school fake background photos. XD

I'm starting my pup on agility training in june (hopefully the lockdown will end by then...) and in prep for the year or two before I can hopefully do events with him was wondering if there was an easy to ramp up akc event I could also do. He's never been to a dog show before and I want to give him exposure to the chaos in prep. I was wondering if anyone knew some events that were very easy and lots of fun for him to participate in.

The only thing coming to mind is Fast CAT (he's tried a lure course before and is happy to chase the rabbit) and possible Rally to practice focus in the dog show environment. He's a keeshond and not a ball chaser so things like flyball are not likely. He just g

I volunteer as a make a wish granter and currently have a kid whose wish to go to New York and ride all of the subways has been granted. I am currently working on his wish reveal and want to make it very NY subway personalized.

If you live in New York and frequent the subway or don't mind going to the new york subway, I am looking for someone to send me the following items:

1. A metro card/ multiple cards if they're just lying around

2. A NY postcard with the words new york on it, or even better an image of the subway/ subway map

3. One of those free pamphlet maps of the new york subway (It says online you can request one from the attendant at the station)

I can send a postcard from Sa

My keeshond pup got his CGC tonight! Youngest pup at 9 months there to get it and we did everything but the passing by another dog incredibly well. He pulled to greet the dog the first time and did a bark, but couldn't care less the second time, phew.

This is the same pup I got half a year ago who non-stop, I mean non-stop barked and lunged at every dog he saw for two months straight. He nonstop barked throughout all of his puppy training classes and was by far the worst puppy there. I remember being desperate, searching for anyone on this subreddit who had a puppy with 0 impulse control and a barking problem that still managed to turn out even a little bit normal. We hit a fear perio

We just did a practice run in our training class today and my bud failed the sitting politely section though he was able to do it after some time and failed the supervised separation section horribly. There was a lot of barking, whining and lunging. Looking for some advice on how I can keep working on both items. The hard part I'm having for both items is they need a second person to help practice and proof the behavior and I don't really have anyone to practice with. If you could offer some advice on how to proof the behavior alone that worked for you, PLEASE PLEASE OFFER HELP.

1. Sitting politely for petting. He thinks everyone he meets has food for him and lunges and jumps at them t

I took my 8 month old Keeshond to his first agility class, an intro one session course to see if your pup would enjoy agility. He loved it, shot through the tunnel, ran across the a-frame and albeit clumsily still confidently did a short teeter. The trainer told me he'd make a good agility dog and had a lot of drive and speed.

My problem is his barking was the worst it's been since he was 4 months old and he jumped on the trainer and pulled like mad. He's 8 months old, normal adolescent behavior. But I've spent the last 5 months working on improving it and on settling him and taken a lot of training classes to do so. I know his impulse control and obedience was low because he's ex