Fit Dog Friday- How To Teach “Touch”

This week was Ike’s second Good Manners class. A fit dog has to keep his mind fit too! In this class, we learned “Touch.” Touch is a targeting skill that helps get a dog into position without using any physical contact or force. At first, Ike...

FitDog Friday- Ike goes to School

Sometimes a Fit Dog must go to school. Since we adopted Ike from a situation where he basically had been allowed to get away with any behavior and bad manners, we knew we’d need to start from the very beginning with his training. He’d been called Buddy for...

Wednesday Pet Roundup- August 14

Hi and welcome to Wednesday Pet Roundup! Ike is starting to feel at home. He likes to help us read the newspaper in the morning. Here are the links for this week: * CBS Detroit lists the wackiest pet names of the year. Included: Hot Rod Woofington, Hunk Heartbreaker,...

Announcing…it’s a boy!

Okay, did you catch on that I was hinting a little bit yesterday?! (hehe sorry!) But now I can tell you. I have some exciting news! We’ve got a new dog!! Please meet Ike. Peppertree Rescue, the same group that helped us with Moses and then Brooks, alerted us to...