The Well Behaved Dingo

One thing to think about before living in a van with your dog is that you aren’t going to be able to leave them in there for 8 hours like you might at a house. At times, like in really cold or super hot weather you won’t be able to leave them for even an [...]

Well I’m tired of all Scherzo’s tricks. creepy crawly, do-si-do, spin, highfive, hi-ho etc have been done to death. And if I feel that way you know scherzo does! time to move on… So, lets see what should we work on now? how bout: “Air Raid”- run and lay under my bent knees “under”- go [...]

We usually feed scherzo in the library parking lot on a little island of grass, so I figured it was a good place to break out the mat and spot (target). I was unsure if Scherzo would be able to do it because we’ve only worked on it in two places, and they were both [...]

Scherzo, Sarroar and I had a rather stressful departure from my mom’s house during the last stay and hit one of those points where things were just feeling bleak. Whenever that happens a good hike can really change the mood, so that’s what we were looking for when we headed up Sype’s Canyon. We had [...]

in her backpack scherzo rarely pulls and this night was walking almost behind us and ignoring all the loud drunk people who walked by barking and cooing at her, she stopped when we stopped, she sat at street crossings. We found ourselves with a remarkably well behaved dingo! It seemed she just appreciated having the option to pull but decided she preffered not to. We were so blown away, we were walking around drunk on our success and our simultanously unexplainable failure as trainers.

We went hiking today on Story Hill, it felt like we were in Scotland with all the rolling hills and was a nice, if a little bit unexciting, hike. The trail meanders through grassy hills and was maybe a mile, we inadvertently started at the top of the trail and then looped out and came [...]

Intro You just aren’t going to strong arm your dog into skateboarding, but luckily with positive reinforcement your dog can achieve great feats. Jump on youtube.com to see dogs on treadmills, skateboards, two legged dogs walking up right, and even a Chinese Dalmation on a bike. Often the owners of these dogs present their animals [...]

Scherzo caught a gopher this morning!

Scherzo has been getting my goat these last couple days! It all started with Ruby, a horse, who was supposed to have my little chitlin- a colt.

As of tonight scherzo has passed her level three on the road behaviors! These are all the level one behaviors but in a new and strange place. She did some good zen and distance behaviors around lightposts while offleash and on main street in Bozeman. We also got her to target the crosswalk button. She [...]