Every dog trainer I know has had the same two dogs. They may not have come in the same order, they may not have had the same exact issues. But every dog trainer I know has had these same two dogs. For me the evidence is clear, these Two Dogs are the formula for creating a dog trainer. The First Dog is a difficult one.…
Why I started Offering Board & Train Options
Why I started Offering Board & Train Packages: Traditionally force free trainers take a step back and cringe when someone mentions sending their dog to a board & train. The reason for that is that for decades the only people who offered such a thing were supposed trainers who would use any number of highly problematic, aversive methods on a dog to force their compliance.…
Ask Pine! vol 1.1 Dog Parks & Over Arousal
Why I No Longer Care About Having an Obedient Dog
So often I have people reach out to me for training and they are simply looking for “Basic obedience.” And over the years my definition of what that entails has grown, changed and evolved with my own skill and understanding. And over the last couple of years I have come to conclusion I no longer care about having an obedient dog, and I do not…
Ready! Set! Launch!
If you have been on my facebook page recently, you will have seen my announcement that I was launching a Patreon. For those not in the know a patreon is a modern way for people to be patrons of the arts (and other things.) This is a way for every day people to patron people who are making quality content of all sorts. These can…
Checking My Ego: Lessons in No
Dogs vs Backyard Dinosaurs
30 Minutes to a Better Relationship with your dog
I want to normalize the idea of a half hour training session with a professional trainer. Over the last year I’ve spent a lot of time adjusting my business, like we all have. One of the ways I did that was moving to an online platform for training, first by necessity, then by choice. I love working online. I love working over video. The ability…
Dog Training via the Internet
What do you mean we’re doing this virtually? Things changed a lot over the last year. And that meant having to change with it. Perhaps it is a silver lining in all of this, that I was forced to move more virtual with my work during the pandemic, because it had been a long term goal of mine for a while. “Wait, you WANTED to…