I spent a couple of evenings this week watching the annual American Kennel Club dog show in New York, Westminster, on television.

Since I’m currently working a lot on training-dogs.com, I do have dog training on the brain constantly. And so my main response to the show was an admiration for all the well-trained dogs there. They are all socialized to the point where they can be around countless other dogs and people. They are all groomed to within an inch of their lives, of course, and there is a lot of training in that. Read the rest of this entry

A neighbor of mine has two Doberman puppies. They are over four months old now, and I’ve been giving her a hand with the basics of training since she got them a couple of months ago. They are brother and sister — here, Rosa is shown with the male Pele. His sister, gazing at the camera lower down the page, is Ushka. Read the rest of this entry

Recently I decided to make Training-Dogs.Com a major priority, and I just did a complete makeover of the site and its look. Now I’m adding this blog and I’ve got lots of plans for both it and the site.

I’ll be posting more of the new material here on the blog: Read the rest of this entry