Posted in Shelter Makeover

The Potsdam Humane Society is located in rural upstate NY. Besides the needed physical repairs to the building, their training program could use an indoor facility so proper training can take place year round. We have a program where we assess each dog that comes in and develop a training program according to its needs to make it more adoptable.… read more

Posted in Behavior & Training

My dear Thunder must need glasses. I was out playing with him yesterday. I was sitting in a chair getting some rays, and I was tossing his toy. To the right of me was a tree. Thunder gave me his toy and went to my right. As I tossed the toy, I heard a thund and then a cry. I looked and he was getting up off of the ground, and then went after … read more

Posted in Behavior & Training

On Thursday, Lana and her Sheltie Gunner came over and helped drag out some of my dog training equipment. We got out a bar jump, an agility tunnel, broad jumps and some pylons. I set up a few simple exercises to get the dog's attention off the equipment and on the handler and then switch focus to the equipment and back to the handler. Then we di… read more

Posted in Behavior & Training

Two years ago, Anne Smith (Interim Director) and I went to the shelter to see what we could do to help the shelter dogs become more adoptable. The people who have adopted from shelters and attended my classes had inappropriate behaviors in common,the most common were jumping and pulling. I know that many people surrender their dog because they all… read more

Posted in General

I have been out of town for almost 2 weeks with very little internet access. So, I'm sorry that I haven't been able to contribute any points. I had to put my parents in a nursing home. The last 3 days, my husband came down and brought the pups, which made my stay there more tolerable. Thank heavens for dogs! read more