by lkaim | May 20, 2012 | Dangerous Dogs, Dog Laws, Dog Trainers, Dogs, Maryland Dog Training, Maryland Puppy Training, Socializing your new puppy
This week, The State Farm Insurance company released a report on the number of dog bite claims they had received in the year 2011. What I find interesting to note is that children, between the ages of 5 and 15 (predominantly male children) are 900 times more likely to...
by lkaim | Apr 10, 2012 | Dog Training Tools, Dogs, Maryland Dog Training, Maryland Puppy Training, Socializing your new puppy
Today kept us largely at home. Dog Training clients in the morning and chores in the afternoon kept me close to the house and to our new English Pointer pup, Zwei. As I suspected he would, Conor abdicated to spend the night at a friends’ house on the last day of...
by lkaim | Apr 9, 2012 | Dogs, Maryland Dog Training, Maryland Puppy Training, Socializing your new puppy
It helps that our son Conor doesn’t go back to school until Wednesday. He was also very enthusiastic about being Zwei’s caregiver overnight for his very first night in his new home. We organized Conors’ room to accept his new guest much to the dismay...
by lkaim | Jan 28, 2012 | Dangerous Dogs, Dog Laws, Dog Politics, Dogs, Maryland Dog Training
I got a call from a friend the other day. She had taken the opportunity to catch her breath from wrestling a 4 pound landshark of the Poodle variety. The dog had just laid her hand open when trying to extract it from a crate. Needless to say, my friend was shocked and...
by lkaim | Jan 21, 2012 | Dog Training Anecdotes, Dogs, Maryland Dog Training, Maryland Puppy Training
People don’t train their dogs because they are misguided in the belief that “(s)he is a puppy and will ‘grow’ out of it”. People don’t train their dogs because their spouse/son/daughter/mother/father/neighbor/casual acquaintance...
