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 …
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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. …
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 …
The Beauty of Winter Training (part 2)
Mud Bay in Lake Oswego gets it. When we stopped by their store, we were excited to see that they are advocating for winter training. Looking through their selection and seeing their in-store chalk drawing also inspired a few other …
The Beauty of Winter Training
The beautiful part of living and training dogs in Portland, Oregon can be the winter. Yes, you read that right. Cooler temperatures, fewer people at parks, and evergreen backdrops make for a great training environment. And on days such as …
Human Shaping
As Lucid clients know, complex animal behaviors can be easily taught through a combination of shaping, targeting, and luring. All of these tools make for an effective end result, but it takes two key things: time and patience. With time …
Every Dog Needs a GoPro
When you make a product as slick as GoPro, marketing it in today’s social media savvy and extreme sports happy culture is seemingly easy. GoPro videos such as Never A Dull Moment With Hannes Arch and Lion Hug are fun, exciting and …
That Awesome Moment…
… when we arrive at a client’s house to see that they’ve naturally taken their dog’s training to the next step never gets old. Sam (girl) took Friday (17 week old Toy Fox Terrier) from beginning shaping concepts a week …
Positive Pit Bull News
As there are two sides to every coin and every challenge is also an opportunity, great tragedies can also serve to be brilliant points of inspiration and the birth of beautiful stories. Such is the case with the Michael Vick …
Don’t Let This Be Your Dog
In our last post, I emphasized the importance of keeping your dog safe on the 4th of July. Of course we don’t want our dogs to stress from the loud noises. But even more, we don’t want them to get …
Rogue Dog Menu
Rogue Dog Menu A few Saturdays back, Tall Chris, Boxer Annie, and I went to Rogue Ale House on NW Flanders in Portland. It was one of a few outdoor eating spaces that had an open table to accommodate our …
Smiling Dogs
Crikey, smiling dogs really do exist! Up until very recently, I had a hard time believing that these hilarious “smiling” dog pictures floating around the interwebs were not ALL artificially photoshopped. Some of the photos have an almost cartoon-esque quality …