By Dianna Young Let me tell you about one of my favorite dogs. Her name is Lady, and she’s a Labrador Retriever that belongs to one of our boarding clients. Lady is a wonderful dog. She has spent a lot of time in our kennel, and we have come to know her very well and [...]

By Dianna Young The way you communicate your decisions, as pack leader, to your dog make a fundamental difference in the results that you get. You can do it effectively either verbally or non-verbally, and you can do it non-verbally with or without a leash. The most important thing, however, is always to communicate your [...]

By Dianna Young One of my dog-boarding clients came to me recently with a serious concern: She had taken her dog through an obedience course, she said, but the animal had forgotten everything it learned. “When is the last time you trained with your dog?” I asked the woman. “Oh, two years ago,” she said. [...]

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