When I opened Pikes Peak Manners In Minutes in 2006 and
started training dogs professionally, I thought I had everything figured out
about what I would be doing. Now 6 1/2
years later I find myself doing a lot of things I never thought of originally.
Neighborhood Pack
started out as just a way to give my clients some extra time to work with me on
their dogs. Today it is a major part of
my training.
I had never even
thought about training a deaf dog. But
each year I train a couple of deaf dogs.
I also didn’t realize that this blog and a Facebook page would be in the
mix.
But the biggest
surprise is that I find myself training a couple of dogs each year by e
mail. It started out, like so many things, simply enough. A Lakeland breeder I know asked me to contact the owner of one of her dogs. The owner was having a couple of problems that just needed some knowhow to get through. The word got out and pretty soon I was getting regular requests from that breeder or others to help one of their dogs out in pet owners homes.
Then I was contacted by a Lakeland owner for some help. The problem was easily cleared up. But the dog owner was so impressed that she asked if I could help her train the dog in the entire Manners in Minutes system.
What resulted was a series of e mails. I would explain how to train a command. She would start working the dog in the command and as questions came up she would e mail and I would answer.
Wisely I kept all the e mails. Last fall when I found myself going to Williamsburg VA for seminars those e mails became the basis of my new workbook.
And now when I train a dog by e mail, I have a workbook to guide the owner to the dog they want.
The one downside,
I only get to see pictures of the dog.
Doug
