One Smart Dog

12/24/2025

🎄Warm holiday wishes from the One Smart Dog team to you and your dogs.

As we wrap up 2025, we want to say a sincere thank you for being part of our community. Your trust, commitment, and enthusiasm make it a joy to do what we do, and we are truly grateful for another wonderful year together.

Over the next few days, the facility will remain open for rentals, though we will be running a limited class schedule. Regular classes resume on January 5. During the holiday period, our team may need a little extra time to respond to emails, and we appreciate your patience.

We wish you a safe, cozy, and happy holiday season, and we look forward to seeing you in the new year. 🥂

12/07/2025

We are ready for day 2 with Stefanie Theis! This has been educational and fun. A great way to spend a cold weekend — with friends, learning, and dogs.

12/01/2025

Contest Closed!
🎄 Holiday Game Photo Contest!
Post a pic of your dog playing Pawliday Climb or Sit, Stay, Sleigh.
Enter by Dec. 7 to win a free registration to one of the workshops below:

🎄Howl-iday Makers
🎅 Fitness & Conditioning
🎁 Scent: Holiday Containers

To enter tag us in your photo on Instagram or on Facebook post your photo in the comments below. We will select and notify winners on Dec. 8.

Need a game card? Snag a digital copy from our post yesterday or grab a printed one from the OSD office. PDFs available from [email protected]

Stay tuned for our second photo contest starting Dec. 28, and join in the fun & games running all month! ❄️

12/01/2025

Stefanie Theis is ready to rock this weekend! Here is her course set up. I am excited already!
We have a couple of open spots if you would like to join us😊
Just text me at 330-958.9224 or register at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ySHTt8Vm7mwkCkyW0lAZHRuGSO6PvF5N/view?usp=drivesdk

Linda

Playing with course design for the upcoming workshops at One Smart Dog next weekend!! If you want to see how I end up numbering this course and want to come work on your skills, make sure you join us!!

11/30/2025

🎄🐾 Get ready for some holiday fun! We’re launching two festive training games for you and your dog.
Our second game:

🎲 Sit, Stay, Sleigh – our holiday twist on Snakes & Ladders, with training challenges, chutes, and a dog-powered “dice” roll!

Each game has a prize of one $150 series training credit to be used in 2026. To enter simply complete the game board and drop off printed copies to Linda at the One Smart Dog office or email digital copies to [email protected].

Winners will be drawn in January. One entry per person, per game card.
For those who prefer a printed copy PDFs are available for download in today's mailer, or you may pick up a copy from the OSD office.

Both games are designed to keep you training, playing, and having fun all season long. Stay tuned - our first of two Holiday Photo Contests drops tomorrow! 📸✨

11/30/2025

🎄🐾 Get ready for some holiday fun! We’re launching two festive training games for you and your dog.
First up:

⭐ Pawliday Climb – work your way up the tree, completing simple holiday tasks along the way!

Each game has a prize of one $150 series training credit to be used in 2026. To enter simply complete the game board and drop off printed copies to Linda at the One Smart Dog office or email digital copies to [email protected].

Winners will be drawn in January. One entry per person, per game card.
For those who prefer a printed copy PDFs are available for download in today's mailer, or you may pick up a copy from the OSD office.

Both games are designed to keep you training, playing, and having fun all season long. Stay tuned - our first of two Holiday Photo Contests drops tomorrow! 📸✨

11/30/2025

Looking for an ORT soon? Toledo in January!

Robin Ford Dog Training provides high-quality dog training services for both performance and companion dogs. Dog agility, nose work, scent work, herding, obedience, rally, canine fitness, and foundational behaviors. We have over twenty years of experience in competitive dog sports and use positive r...

11/28/2025

📣 We did another Meet Your Instructor Q&A, this time it was with Tara Gifford. Tara is a CPDT-KA & FFCP, and recently became an approved C-Wags scent judge. Congratulations Tara! 🎉

Check out her answers below:

1. What was the name of your very first dog?

Pooka, a black lab

2. Coffee or tea – and where’s your favorite local spot to grab it?

Hot Chocolate at home

3. What’s an uncommon dog breed you’d like to work with?

Whippet

4. Go-to comfort food?

Lasagna

5. What’s one thing you love most about living in Ohio?

Spring, Summer & Fall

6. Morning person or night owl?

Morning Person

7. Favorite activity to do with your own dog(s)?

Hiking & watching them swim

8. What’s a hobby or talent most people don’t know you have?

Crochet

9. Best piece of advice you’d give to new dog owners?

Take a class, learn about using positive reinforcement

10. If your dog could talk for one day, what do you think they’d say to you?

Let’s Go!

11/21/2025

This is a milestone for dog training and for agility. Watch and share! We admire Jenn Crank and honor her many contributions to the art and skill of dog training, behavior, and the sport of agility. I personally also want to thank the gifted Hi5 for her contributions to training and agility. She is an exceptional dog who was chosen from a litter of 10 by Jenn, and together became an extraordinary team. Congratulations on this TED talk.

Who let the dogs out? Jennifer Crank, a world champion in dog agility competitions like Westminster, brings her border collie onto the TED stage to demonstrate the secrets of interspecies communication. Watch as her four-legged friend bounds through an obstacle course at lightning speed — as Crank...

11/18/2025

The new course is up!

We are excited to bring back our Winter Warmer rental packages available now until February. These packages offer a discount on ring rentals to help you practice during the winter months when backyard equipment isn't an option.

If you have questions or need assistance with rentals or packages please email [email protected]

11/16/2025

Exceptional Workshops with an Extraordinary
Competitor, Judge, and Coach.
World Team member and National/international winner with multiple breeds of dogs.