Fit Dog Friday- How To Teach “Touch”

This week was Ike’s second Good Manners class. A fit dog has to keep his mind fit too! In this class, we learned “Touch.” Touch is a targeting skill that helps get a dog into position without using any physical contact or force. At first, Ike...

FitDog Friday- Ike goes to School

Sometimes a Fit Dog must go to school. Since we adopted Ike from a situation where he basically had been allowed to get away with any behavior and bad manners, we knew we’d need to start from the very beginning with his training. He’d been called Buddy for...