by Kelly Cordell-Morris | 21 Dec, 2021 | Blog, Enrichment, Life With Dogs, Training & Behaviour
The holiday season at the end of the year brings a whole bunch of festivities and celebrations that it gets busy fast. All the additional activity and excitement can be a lot to handle. For you and your dog. Then there’s the extra guests and visitors, numerous...
by Kelly Cordell-Morris | 8 Dec, 2021 | Blog, Life With Dogs, Training & Behaviour
I’m often asked if I will take dogs in and do the training for you. Residential training is not something I offer. There are lots of personal reasons for why I don’t. I believe if I was to offer this the dog would need to live with us at home. That means my dogs would...
by Kelly Cordell-Morris | 6 May, 2021 | Blog, Life With Dogs, Training & Behaviour
“Comparison is the thief of joy” is attributed to several people including Theodore Roosevelt, which probably means it was someone else. Regardless of who said it first, I think I agree mostly. It probably depends on how you are doing the comparison. For...
by Kelly Cordell-Morris | 19 Mar, 2021 | Blog, Life With Dogs, Training & Behaviour
We aren’t magic. Much as that would make our lives easier. But that’s a good thing because it means that anyone can learn to do what we do. Dog trainers get better results, or results more efficiently, because we’ve honed our skills over the years. The only...
by Kelly Cordell-Morris | 24 Dec, 2020 | Blog, Life With Dogs, Training & Behaviour
I live with three spaniels currently. At one point I lived with two German Shepherds, a saluki and two spaniels. I always felt I should even things up with another sighthound. But didn’t want to seem like a crazy dog lady. I often get asked “how do you...
by Kelly Cordell-Morris | 16 Nov, 2020 | Blog, Life With Dogs, Training & Behaviour
Living with a dog behaviour problem is by definition challenging for us. If we didn’t find the behaviour difficult to live with we wouldn’t define it as a problem. Our dogs are individuals with an entire set of genetics and learning histories that make...
