Spaying and Neutering Your Dog
We're not veterinarians, but understandably, training clients will often ask for our opinions regarding various medical topics. From food allergies to explanations regarding hip dysplasia and our opinions of flea and tick prevention, we have our beliefs and opinions....
Lucid Dog Training in Lake Oswego Review and West Linn Tidings
A funny thing happens when your business gets busy. Sometimes you forget to blog... for 7 months. There's no better way, however, to resuscitate a blog than to get to post about a fun news article starring you. As a Valentine's Day feature, we were recently asked...
Planning on seeing “Max” the movie? Read this.
At Lucid, we love and advocate for all dogs. With that, we particularly perk up whenever any of the dog world's breeds or types of dogs are used for the purposes of entertainment, fashion, or advertising. Actions have consequences – unintentional or not. In the...
Lucid is now an AKC Canine Good Citizen Evaluator
Lucid Dog Training is proud to announce that we have recently been certified as Canine Good Citizen Evaluators by the American Kennel Club. The AKC Website reads that, “The CGC Program is designed to reward dogs who have good manners at home and in the community. The...
Dog training lessons from Android
If you watched the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four / Finals, you hopefully saw the ad for Android called, "Friends Furever." Via New York ad agency, Droga5, the ad is the latest in Android’s “be together. not the same.” campaign. From an advertising perspective, it...
Lake Oswego Leadership – Hop at the Hunt
This weekend, the Lake Oswego Leadership team will partner with Hope Sparrow Services and the Lake Oswego Hunt Club to sponsor the annual Hop at the Hunt. Read about the event in the Lake Oswego Review article written by Saundra Sorenson. PDF of Lake Oswego Review...
Two Key Questions Every Dog Owner Must Ask
As dog trainers, we often meet our clients because their dogs repeat a behavior that is annoying and/or dangerous, and they’d like it to stop. “Our dog does X, so can you train her not to do that?” is a common beginning to conversations with training prospects. While...
Pit Bulls in Portland
Recently, Fedor Zarkhin of The Oregonian and OregonLive set out to write a series of detailed articles that clearly outline the now 30-year-old dilemma in Portland, and elsewhere, around “Pit Bulls” (American Pit Bull Terriers, Staffordshire Bull Terriers, American...
Give a Dog a Job
The philosophy of Lucid Dog Training is largely rooted in the belief that all dogs, working dogs or pets, are happiest when they feel they have a purpose, or a job to do, in life. In a sense, a dog's instinct pushes them to seek consistent and directed work in a...
Lessons in Dog Training from GEICO
Inspired by the fact that just about every pre-roll ad (the ad you skip almost every time you watch a popular clip on YouTube) is avoided by consumers, GEICO and their ad agency (The Martin Agency) turned to an awesomely "bad dog" to make a genius piece of advertising...