
Poop Bags, and other necessities
By Susanne Shelton

Poop Bags, and other necessitiesMay 24, 2023

Trials, tribulations and the teenage dog with Camille Personne CCDT CDBC

Hound About Town, Without The Meltdown, with Amber Quann KPA-CTP CPDT- KA

Bad Blood Between Dogs with Katie Sipple of Wise Mind Canine Part 2

Bad Blood Between Dogs with Katie Sipple of Wise Mind Canine

Trimming Nails and Brushing Mats Without Doggie Drama with Yara Silva CPDT-KA

It's Time To Rethink Puppy Biting
Join Susanne as she brings her experience as a breeder to her career as a trainer to discuss why it's time to rethink puppy biting. Replacing tired advice with multi faceted but practical techniques laid out in detail in her new on demand course Shark School Susanne wants to change the way we all look at, and address, this predictable puppy phase.
By embracing, instead of fighting, the normal developmental stages of puppyhood and the instincts of young dogs we can give puppies and their owners a strong bond, allowing them to enjoy each other's company, all while giving owners pragmatic tools for living with their baby shark.

Responsible Breeders, what makes or breaks one?
Today I'm taking another pass at the ever popular subject of Finding A Good Breeder, a subject I have visited before in various ways from Another One of those Stupid “how to find a good breeder” lists….. to Rin Tin Tin, or Run Run Run? This time from the perspective of finding a breeder that shares your values.
As part of my new podcasting project I kicked off with how I define a Responsible Breeder and Substandard Breeder I've detailed out the Ethical Breeding Standard we use ourselves and I'm presenting it here for you in visual and PDF form. I find the Breeder Standard to be a vastly more functional way of identifying breeders I want to support and work with than most other such resources out there, because of it’s focus on core values, relationship building, and mutual understanding.
The Breeder Standard also cuts through the general fog on this subject that occurs when we obscures what really matters in favor of things we have been taught are more important than they really are.
Primarily what I mean by this is the blanket assignment of ”good” applied to breeders producing dogs for competition (show/sport) and the blanket ”bad” applied to breeders who do not breed dogs primarily for competition but instead for companion homes. This age old “find a show breeder” advice just misses the mark and has led to so many problems in the dog community that it’s long past time we move to something more meaningful.
Why? Why is the ”find a breeder who titles their dogs” advice damaging to the dog community?
Why is the advice to beware of breeders who don’t also damaging to the dog community?
Read the full article, including downloadable PDFs, in our newest take on how to find the puppy of your dreams.
Want even more? Explore our free mini course, which includes a full discussion of The Breeder Standard, and our step by step Breeder Interview Checklist.
For more information on the 5 Freedoms check out this and this and perhaps if there is enough interest we will have a more in-depth discussion of the 5 Freedoms in another episode.