http://www.fideliodogs.com/dogblog A day in the life of a dog trainer Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:42:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the world of all things dog training, service dogs rank up there as the most of the most. The people that work with them are incredible and the amount of effort, time, and patience that goes into making a capable service dog is simply mind boggling to the ... http://www.fideliodogs.com/dogblog/2008/11/11/service-dogs-for-veterans/ I've had a lot of people pay me a lot of ways over the years, but one of today's clients did it up right! Here's the setup: A great golden retriever puppy that is 14 weeks old. A very cool client family with 2 kids which are fantastic and work a lot with ... http://www.fideliodogs.com/dogblog/2008/10/20/make-the-dog-trainer-happy/ Proof of the power of Place command Well, this is proof of what can happen. This puppy, a full bore border collie was chasing the poor cats around like crazy in the house before he learned the place command. The cats were getting a bit fed up, the people were getting a ... http://www.fideliodogs.com/dogblog/2008/10/10/137/ In the last few weeks I've had a number of emails from potential clients asking what "methods" I use for training. Well, I just responded to another one of those emails and thought it's time to put my response in the blog. So, here is the text of the email ... http://www.fideliodogs.com/dogblog/2008/10/05/no-guru-no-method/ Dog training is all about repetition. Simple enough right?? Well, not really. The problem is that hardly any of us with any semblance of a modern lifestyle have enough disposable hours to do the large numbers of repetitions needed to get the dogs up to speed quickly. ... http://www.fideliodogs.com/dogblog/2008/09/29/what-is-the-fastest-way-to-get-your-dog-trained/ [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="173" caption="They are cute"][/caption] Yeah, You're right, they are cute but that's only half the story. I'm going to preface the rest of this post with the full disclosure that I had a Yorkie for 18 years. It went to college with me, and one summer ... http://www.fideliodogs.com/dogblog/2008/09/24/what-your-should-know-about-yorkies-before-you-bring-one-home/ We work with kids all the time around here at Fidleio Dog Works. Almost every family wants their children to be involved in working with the dog and that's a great thing. The more the kids work with puppies and older dogs, the more the relationship becomes cemented ... http://www.fideliodogs.com/dogblog/2008/09/24/dog-training-with-children/ THIS is why you need a dog trainer!This past week I had a client meeting that shocked me.  When I arrived at the client I was told that she had never been able to get her dog into her car.  NEVER in 12 YEARS.  When she moved to Austin she ... http://www.fideliodogs.com/dogblog/2008/09/19/why-you-need-a-dog-trainer/ Well, I've worked with quite a number of upcoming and new parents over the years but this week I had a wonderful experience of working with a client that is having twins AT ANY MOMENT. This family was a bit nervous about getting their dog ready as he'd had a history ... http://www.fideliodogs.com/dogblog/2008/09/10/getting-puppy-ready-for-babies/ This has been a puppy month at Fidelio Dog Works. I've got a number of clients that have gotten new pups in the last few weeks some of them brought from as far away as northern Canada. Getting these little guys shipped is no small task and we had ... http://www.fideliodogs.com/dogblog/2007/10/19/puppies-puppies-everywhere/