By Maggi Forootan – Lead and Love K9 www.leadandlovek9.com One thing that a lot of my clients complain about is that their dog doesn’t listen to them, doesn’t come when called, and basically blows them off whenever they feel like it. Even people who have invested the time and energy into their dogs training […]

By Maggi Forootan – Lead And Love K9 www.leadandlovek9.com I was at a party recently, and someone there knew I was a dog trainer so they started chatting me up about their dog. It happens a lot…I don’t mind : ) The interesting thing about our conversation was that I very quickly learned that this […]

By Maggi Forootan – Lead and Love K9 www.leadandlovek9.com This quote from my friend and mentor Sean O’Shea from The Good Dog Training and Rehabilitation inspired me to talk a little bit about something I encounter often when my clients are struggling with their dogs: Over protectiveness or guarding. By nature, dogs can be territorial […]

By Maggi Forootan – Lead and Love K9 www.leadandlovek9.com In today’s day and age, with all of the great information available about the value and importance of crate training your dog, I’m really surprised that I still get a fair amount of resistance from my clients when I stress that they must crate train their […]

By Maggi Forootan – Lead and Love K9 www.leadandlovek9.com This is a true story. The names of those actually involved other than myself have been changed. Today was a sad day. Come with me as I take you on the journey of Sunny. Little Sunny was rescued at three months old from a horribly neglectful situation. […]

By Maggi Forootan – Lead and Love K9 www.leadandlovek9.com “Help…my dog loses his mind when he sees other dogs (people, cats, squirrels, skateboards, bikes) out on a walk”. I hear it all the time. Consider this… what are the worst leash reactive dogs doing while out on a walk before the big blow up over […]

By Maggi Forootan – Lead and Love K9 www.leadandlovek9.com Years ago I enrolled my Doberman, Vegas, in a dog training boot camp. Vegas went to live with his trainer for about 4 weeks at a kennel where he learned a very traditional type of training based on competition obedience commands: Sit, down, stay, come, heel, […]

WALK THIS WAY! By Maggi Forootan – Lead and Love K9 www.leadandlovek9.com Helping my clients achieve a nice, calm, loose-leash walk with their dogs is one of the most important things that I focus on in my training programs. But why is having your dog walk next to you on a loose leash in heel […]