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, […]