How to Motivate Your Dog
I try to tell people in class that the best way to get their dog interested in listening to you, is by using a good motivator. You can see this as a bit of a bribe, yes, but we all do it. You want...
View ArticleHow to Speak Dog-Safely Interpreting What Dogs Are Saying-Class in...
Imagine a little speech bubble in the left hand corner saying, "What am I thinking?" Well if you are like most people, we like to think we understand them, after all we love them and spend the most...
View ArticleAmerica's All Time Favorite!
How does it get any better than America's sport, baseball, played by none other than dogs! Don't believe me, don't take my word for it...Check out the game I caught the other day!Batters up!And the...
View ArticleNewberg's Doggy Play Day!!!
You read right! Newberg get's it's very own Doggy Play Day!!! Come and let your dogs play, they can stay for an hour, or all day (from 10 am to 5 pm). When you take them home you will have one tired...
View ArticleThe Easiest Way to Train Your Dog
I hear this a lot. "What is the best way, or what way do you recommend to train your dog?" I hear this a lot because I train dogs for a living, well dog, and their owners. What people really seem to...
View ArticleDog Jerky Recall
Okay, so here is my take on all the Jerky recalls over the past 3-4 years. DON'T feed your dog jerky. Dog nutrition 101: It may surprise you to know but a dog's kidneys don't do well with high...
View ArticleHappy Howloween!!!! Pet Safety Tips for Halloween!
Roxy wants to make sure that you and your fur babies don't have any unhappy events tonight! It's easy for a small dog (or cat) to slip out in between all those trick or treaters tonight. If you are...
View ArticleA Dog Whisperer
What does the term "Dog Whisperer" mean to you? For me it used to mean someone who could understand the body language of dogs, specifically, someone who had some unattainable attribute that gave them...
View ArticleWhat to Expect When Your Expecting, With A Dog
So what's cuter than a baby and a dog? Not much really. It's great when they get along just fine from the get go. The problem is that is not always the case. Especially if you had the dog first.I...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving
My "I'm Grateful for" list...on a sort of wordless Wednesday...I am grateful to live in such a beautiful area!.... For my current and past dogs....and all the people who have allowed me to get to know...
View ArticleRedirecting, the "How To" and "Whys"
First things first. Redirecting, what does it mean? Simply put, it means to ask your dog to do something else in place of what it is doing. Say you have a chronic jumper. You may not mind it all of...
View ArticlePunishment vs Positvie
I know how tempting it can be. Trust me. We have all been there. At the end of our ropes or leashes as it may be. Most of the time it's with a puppy, though yours may be full size and not looking...
View ArticleOut with the Old and In with the New!
At this time of the year we are busy setting new goals for ourselves, have you stopped to think about setting some for your 4 legged companion? It's really very similar to teach them to stop doing...
View ArticleInside Your Dog's Head: Why the clicker works
Ever wonder why, when you click that little button on a clicker, your dog lights up like it's Christmas time? Lets put it this way, why do you like facebook? How easy is it to write your woes as a...
View ArticleNew Puppy 101 Part 1: The Basics
Puppies!!! Everyone loves puppies!!!! Right? The minute you see one, your heart melts and you start daydreaming of what it would be like to have one...until you remember the house breaking, the...
View ArticleNew puppy 101 part 2: What is He Thinking?
What does your puppy think about? Well we all know that dogs are smart, right? Well what would do if you had 18 plus hours of being able to do nothing other than observe those around you. If you had...
View ArticleWhat have we been up to the past couple months?
Well they say a picture is worth a thousand words! Training puppies, and dogs alike!At The Pets Stop Inn...and at home! The cutest little Bloodhound puppy you have ever seen!As well as teaching dogs...
View ArticleNew Training Options!!!
You all know the saying about dogs and learning new tricks....Well I am learning new ones too!It has come to my attention that there are still needs from you all out there that I am not meeting by...
View ArticleThe Pinch Collar
We've all seen them, they are said to work wonders for the "tough" dog, and when your dog wears it even if he isn't that tough, it makes him look that much more mean or scary.Lets take a look at if...
View ArticleHow to create aggression in dogs
Let me give you the perfect recipe for making a frustrated and or, an aggressive dog.Step 1. Let them see or hear something that excites them.Step 2. Deny them access to that very thing that excited...
View ArticleBest Trainer in Newberg!
I want to give a shout out to you all who voted for me as the best trainer in Newberg for the year 2014! This was quite a wonderful surprise! Every year Newberg has a form you can submit where you...
View ArticleOur gift to our furry friends
So I am in the process of training a Golden Retriever to be a service dog for a 15 year old boy I know. I am so grateful to be given this wonderful opportunity to give the puppy the wonderful gift of a...
View ArticleStarting off right!
One might be asking what has Aliesha from Sit Spot Click been doing lately? Well for starters I am full time training a service dog named Zoey. She is helping a boy who suffers from extreme anxiety...
View ArticleService Dogs: Questions Answered
This is Zoey. Zoey is a Service Dog. She is being trained in a classroom here. What is the difference, you may be asking yourself, between Service Dogs, a Therapy Dog, or a Emotional Support Animal?A...
View ArticleWhat's New?
So maybe you've notice things got a bit quite over here for a while....well that's because I was busy making it easier for you to find the answers to all your questions in one place that you can pull...
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