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Through all of our training, Kody is still very excited by squirrels. He barks and if he were off leash would love to chase them. But something really interesting happened today. Kody saw a squirrel through the slider and the just wagged his tail and watched. The squirrel stuck around for a little while and Kody [...]

In this episode Victoria Stilwell helps a couple who have three great Danes. I actually really liked this episode. The couple were willing to do some work and Victoria was actually solving problems. One thing bugs me, and that’s that although Victoria doesn’t train like Cesar Millan, she’s started talking like him. This has been a [...]

We’re having a great Christmas. Kody and I are watching White Christmas, well I am, and Kody is laying on the couch next to me with a bully stick. There’s a roaring fire in the fireplace, it’s just how I like it. Our walks have been really good today, too. Ever since I got Kody two [...]

There are a lot of difficult challenges to owning a challenging dog. One that is a thorn in my side is dealing with people who don’t believe there are challenging dogs. By dealing with them, what I mean is basically ignoring them. Most people believe all dogs are naturally well behaved and if a dog [...]

Kody has calmed down significantly over the last week or two. He rarely barks or even pays much attention to what’s going on outside. He’s calm and sleeps most of the time while I’m working. It’s a little disconcerting. He also asks to go outside a lot less often. It is getting colder, and before that [...]

I haven’t been posting much over the last few days because I’ve been incredibly busy. Kody has been so helpful. He’s stopped barking and growling at every critter that walks by outside and he’s let me work without interruption. This is amazing. I’m so thankful. In return, now that he walks on a loose leash so [...]

Kody is two years old now, and we’ve never really put in the time to focus on guests coming to the front door. All we’ve done is have him wait to go out when I open the door, which he does fine. Since we moved, Kody has actually become worse about guests at the door. [...]

I said in a recent post how I opened the door one day and Kody let out a jarring howl/bark that rattled my nerves. Right before I started writing this we went out so Kody could relieve himself, which he did. Then a stranger walked right next to him, almost touching him, and he was [...]

I’m really proud of myself for picking up on this attention situation with Kody. By rewarding him for paying attention to me, we now have darn near perfect walks. It’s really amazing, but also a little scary how frighteningly difficult it was to get here (and we still have more to do!) When I first [...]