by LucidDogTraining | Apr 3, 2015 | Educate
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...
by LucidDogTraining | Mar 31, 2015 | Activate, Educate, Inspire, Lucid Dog Training
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...
by LucidDogTraining | Mar 18, 2015 | Educate, Lucid Dog Training, News
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...
by LucidDogTraining | Mar 16, 2015 | Educate
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...
by LucidDogTraining | Mar 3, 2015 | Culture, Educate, News
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...
by LucidDogTraining | Jan 15, 2015 | Educate
Over the past several decades, dog training, like most everything, has seen some major advances. These advances not only make the activity more fun, more efficient, and more fair, but they also make it more effective. That said, as popular culture and tradition have a...