tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71999646486780018562012-02-15T22:20:17.281-08:00I'd like to bring together a collection of progressive ideas regarding the raising of our beloved dogs! To try them out and see whether it improves my relationship with the dogs around me.Natalie Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01743942183800695129noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199964648678001856.post-90602030405158408802011-12-06T19:42:00.000-08:002011-12-06T19:45:46.273-08:00

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Natalie Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01743942183800695129noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199964648678001856.post-91645006623594043992011-04-19T12:48:00.000-07:002011-04-19T18:13:57.824-07:00

When's the last time you told your dog: It's okay that you're letting me know how you feel by behaving that that way (i.e. being "naughty").  Can I help you in some concrete way to feel better, or do you know how to handle feeling this way on your own?  Do you know how to calm yourself down & get back to "normal"?  If not, let me try to help you learn a new behavior that's much more productive.

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Hah, yeah right!  Relax...  I have other pressing to-do items that, if I choose to sit down and write this post, will force me to yet again work until past midnight, but it truly is enjoyable for me to write when the purpose is to get things off my chest & out of my head, so this is definitely a "recess" for me.  This post is long, so I broke it down for you: Searing, Hot, Fuming Mad In the

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Jax was a trooper, and kept up pretty well with our group of big pups!  So funny to watch him run around in the videos below, hopping around like a little rabbit (in a little blue outfit!).  Naz kept slipping and sliding all over the place, since there is a layer of ice under some of this fresh powder.But she had a blast!  They all did.  What a great experience, for all of us, to look out on

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One of the blogs I follow is Boulder Dog, whose author recently took the "Pet Blogger Challenge," and it inspired me to do the same.  The purpose of the challenge that I'm taking away is to re-assess why I'm putting the time & effort into the blog.  Which is something that's been clanking around in my head for awhile now.  So, here we go! Much better than HBO. When did you begin your blog?

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I've always been interested in politics, both local and national.  But now that I'm moving forward with the daycare, these things are now directly connected to me, since the fate of Mammoth Lakes affects the fate of our success. Below is my comment that I posted to the recent LATimes article titled, "Mammoth Lakes fears financial ruin after legal judgment."  Wow, what a doomsday title!

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One more picture!  :)  They were pretty tired on their last day.  Lots of playing with friends will do that to you! Look!  You can see Mmth Mountain in the background!  :)  This was taken on the big snowpile behind the condo.  Beautiful days for these "walks"/play sessions. Yep, Monty definitely was "into" Bella.  She thought he was pretty hilarious, too! C & M would chase one

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Out at the old Sherwin's (unofficial) off-leash dog park.  Z met a boxer out there and the two of them played quite a bit of chase (her favorite game!) We also visited Shady Rest park, where Z and my Bella sprinted around, jumped into the powder, and enjoyed the beautiful day.  Check out Z's frozen whiskers at the end of the video, as well as in the picture below! The "Mammoth

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Bella's favorite spot, watching me in the office, or just watching the other pups as if to say, "Why are you wandering around like that?  Conserve some energy.  Come and relax." Jabba was pretty hilarious, getting so excited the first time we went out into the yard and he could "fly" through the powder... that is, until he got stuck.  Bella thought he was silly, too, and started chasing

Natalie Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01743942183800695129noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199964648678001856.post-70167500270130470392010-12-16T16:11:00.000-08:002010-12-16T16:11:51.898-08:00

In this "E-Newsletter" * Holiday Calendar * Cancellation Policy * We are BUSY BUSY BUSY and booking up fast! * But we're working on expanding to a new commercial facility in Mammoth, which should allow us to take more than our current 4-dog maximum for daycare. * We're also hiring for Independent Contractors to work with us to provide dog walks.  I'd love to do them all myself, but I only have

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Just a few walks for Oliver, and I have to say, I'm impressed!  We hadn't met before yesterday (which I would otherwise never do, but this booking was for a friend, so I took the rules and bended them a bit).  As I entered, O did his best to act the guard dog, but gave up within a few barks.  Fantastic.  I appreciate a pup who knows to alert of impending danger, and then wait to see if the

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The first few walks with new pups are always chaotic.  Even more so with puppies!  Bieken really doesn't mean to piddle indoors, but he just can't help how excited he gets. I'm pretty sure that I made it worse by letting him out of his crated area before putting on the leash.  Better plan for next weekend:  Put myself in that crate and leash him up there, then be ready with coat and boots on to

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Poor Sasha definitely does not love the snow.  But she's been a trooper.  I think she'll be happier later this season when the snow isn't blowing so much.  After all, who doesn't love a "bluebird" day?

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What's In A Name?  Leave it to the experts to gorgeously explain what's been rolling around in my head, and what I'd tried to say but couldn't get it out right.  Dog trainer and author Patricia McConnell wrote a wonderful blog entry recently on the "umwelt" of dogs that was, in a way, a spiritual (or "Aha") moment for me.  I discovered a parallel of my reaction while reading an article on Ron

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Okay, this is just a silly post. I wanted to share our experience earlier this fall with the Radioactive Cricket who came to visit one day.  Toby the kitty was entertained for hours, chasing the poor insect around the yard.  Then Bella joined in on the fun. I don't know if you can tell, but this thing was over 1/2" high and 1 1/2" long!

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No, those aren't the Outlaws.  That's just Kim, Max and Bella (left to right).  How adorable are they, and how cute that B was holding onto her stuffed panda toy that matches Max's "style" so perfectly? And SNOW!  Yep, that's right.  Our first mini-snowstorm of the season.  Of course, it was all gone by that afternoon, but hey.  Winter is coming!  Uh, ahem, tell that to our 60-degree weather

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How is that spelled? I've had a bloodhound over for a few days of Daycare, and I was smitten within minutes.  He blended so well into our little family pack within a half hour of being picked up, and his personality has been shining ever since!  My goal with all of my clients' pups is to get them to a place where they're relaxed and happy.  Where they're comfortable with these strange new

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So here's the story.   Don't worry, I'm not closing my doors.  What's going on is that I'm having to relocate by December, put together a revised business plan, apply for a minor Use Permit with the Town of Mammoth (no small feat), and get some investments lined up in order to open Après Pooch in a commercial space.  And if I can't do all that in the next two months, well then I need to

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I'm an Aries, what can I say? I love coming up with new projects and figuring out how to implement them.  I'm just not great at the "finishing" part.  I get distracted easily.  Hey, I'm also on the cusp of Pisces, the dreamer, so who can blame me?  I'm not sure how other bloggers do this, but my "technique" is to create a draft every time I have an idea for a post.  Perhaps this isn't the right

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Rubber Bands & Harriette's Barking Harriette's energy is bound up like the bands of the World's Biggest Rubber Band Ball. Sure, energy definitely isn't stationary, but bear with me a moment while I work through this.  For a little background picture, Harriette is a two and a half year old Bichon mix, I've known her for four days, and she's got a few nervous tics.  She's on more than four

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I have a list of about 12 dog blogs that I follow, and I love the yellow brick road of links within links that I find myself investigating.  If I hadn't clicked, I wouldn't have known that Kevin Behan, the creator of Natural Dog Training, is coming out with a new book in January 2011 entitled Your Dog Is Your Mirror.  I'm so excited!  I feel as if I'm about to enter a marathon and I need to do

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Today I had a couple of free hours, so I decided to take Bella for a ride and run on over to my sister's house to pick up her pups, Mika and Gordy. Unfortunately we couldn't go right away, since the two had already been on an adventure earlier in the day and had rolled in something that would sell like gangbusters if dogs were the consumers and had their choice of perfume. Gross. After the

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It's time to start this thing.   I set up this page about two months ago, but haven't had the nerve to write anything. Why is this? It's not as if I don't have anything to say! In fact, when it comes to the description of this site, that it's to be a place for me to share my "journey" of discovering the different dog training methods, theories and ideas, well, I have plenty to say. I think

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