The Distinguished Dog

04/20/2026

Sherman’s love and excitement for meeting houseguests is as big as he is! Unfortunately, most of his human houseguests do not love his preferred method of greeting: barking and jumping at the door followed by jumping, scratching and nipping at his human friends once inside the house.

Fast forward to today. Sherman has learned he can still say hi to all of his human’s friends, just in a more distinguished manner 😉

08/01/2025

Louie has been working on his cooperative care training. He’s not a fan of overall handling, especially around his paws. He quickly escalates in a negative manner anytime his owners accidentally got to close. Training is supposed to be fun! He’s learned how to wear a muzzle, and we’re working with him to offer is paw to use for touching. This may look like a cute party trick (the gopher part is 😉), but through cooperative care Louie is now offering his paw to be touched by his people! #

04/16/2025

Louie was dressed to impress for his training this week. Louie hates having his paws touched, so we are teaching him to file his nails on a scratch pad, muzzle training and cooperative care!

01/20/2025

Juno was excited to get a training walk in before the big snow yesterday. Not only his this boy incredibly handsome, but he’s also incredibly smart. By the end of our walk he was already mastering that the appropriate way to spot dogs was to look at them vs bark at them!

12/11/2024

Who said learning can’t be fun?! Rya is learning to go relax on her blanket. We will then build on this skill to teach her to go relax when people are going in and out the front door!

10/15/2024

Bowie has been working through his aversion to new sounds in his house now that his grandpa has moved in.

During our session, we noticed that Bowie’s graduation certificates were proudly displayed on the refrigerator! Nothing makes me happier than seeing clients who are truly proud of their pups 💜💜

09/16/2024

Pixie is working on her excitable greetings when her favorite neighbor friends walk by her house. She’s basically a celebrity in her development and even has her own instagram page!

08/30/2024

12/11/2023

Huge round of congratulations are in order for some of the newest distinguished dogs closing out the 2023 calendar year!!

10/02/2023

This is the exact analogy I use for training and rewards.

Dogs (all animals) have natural motivations just as people do!