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WE DO STUPID THINGS FOR FUN
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The snow and deep freeze of the last weeks, balanced like another boulder on the already rocky year we've been having here at DPU, juggling Kiss's chemo, See Ya's mystery illness and the less than stellar economy while trying to keep up with training and entertaining three younger dogs, might have buried us like an avalanche, were it not for the stupid stuff. Sometimes people, including me, train for titles, for ribbons, for greater goals. Concrete training with blueprint, scaffolding and in the end a structure that yields specific results. But what to do when plans go asunder? Short term the weather is crap and you can't get to class. Long term, your dog is not fit for the sport you had hoped to pursue. Whatever. Sometimes life happens. Embrace the absurd, there are so many ridiculous little tricks you can teach your dog, silly things that take no space, that require no audience, no score card, no judgement. You can start working on half a dozen tricks and see which ones stick, which ones you and your dog have fun with, which ones give you just the right amount of challenge without too much frustration. I've got a free Zoom chat tonight, Thursday January 23rd, 7PM Eastern Time, usually these are only open to my online students, but tonight I'm opening the chat to my subscribers as well. Shoot me an email to frankie@dogpotentialunleashed.com BEFORE 6:30 PM and I'll send you the invite. I'll be talking about the dog training stuff that's been on my mind and answering questions too. Check out this video, I've been working on teaching Know Me to yawn on cue and yesterday we added a send to mark first. Just like every other dog person, I am ridiculously proud of my own dogs, even when they're doing the silliest things :-) If you're stumped for things to teach your dog, check out the Quirky Tricks online class. From now until Monday January 27th, 10% off any online class with the code:Brrr
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DOG POTENTIAL UNLEASHED
+top trainer of animal actors (SVU, Sex and the City, Disney, the list goes on!) +have fun with your dog learning cool new tricks +http://subscribe.dogpotentialunleashed.com/ + https://linktr.ee/dogpotentialunleashed
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