Since Ayla was being a bit of a pain this morning already and trying to play too rough, I decided I would distract her with some training to wear her out after breakfast. I started working her on the crate games since she’s only willing to go in her crate when a treat is thrown […]

We saw a dramatic improvement in weather over the last 24 hours here in Germany. Thank God! And it’s only going to get better over the weekend. For us and doggo, as we are prone to call our little Newfie girl,that means taking the opportunity to get away for the weekend and test our new […]

Ayla and I are working on Mind Game #4: Patience right now. I am sitting at the dining room table working and I decided this might be a good time to give this “game” a try. So I pulled out the leash (she might have gotten the impression we would go for a walk since […]

Being that Ayla is not as perfect as she could be when it comes to her behavior, I found the following “games” to play with her to help keep her in line and hopefully make us all a bit happier around the house. I’ve cut some text out since it’s rather long but kept all […]

Today I will hopefully start on a new crate training process with Ayla…I found a website a few weeks ago and really wanted to try what I found there but unfortunately when I went looking for it again, couldn’t find it anymore. But thankfully I finally figured out what I must have used to find […]