Review: Make Dogs Your Life, Lesson 12 & Final

I am very excited to announce that I’ve completed Lesson 12, the final lesson in The FernDog Trainer Academy Make Dogs Your Life course for dog trainers! Lesson 12 covers an important topic for any career: Secrets of Success. Both the video and the written materials in this lesson cover the importance of continuing to Read the Rest…

Review: Snap Dog Designs Shorty Bait Bag

As I’ve mentioned before, we do a lot of treat training with our dogs. They like it, and we like it! Treat training, of course, means that you’ve got to have a handy place to put those treats. We just received a super cute bait bag by Snap Dog Designs that’s as functional as it Read the Rest…

Review: Make Dogs Your Life, Lesson 11

I’ve just finished the next to last lesson in my course for dog trainers, The FernDog Trainer Academy Make Dogs Your Life course. One more lesson and a final exam to go! Lesson 11 covers continuing education, an important topic in any field. With new research and improved styles of training, it’s so important to Read the Rest…

Review: Make Dogs Your Life, Lesson 10

Things are moving along in my course for dog trainers, Make Dogs Your Life; I’ve only got two more lessons until my final test! For the past two weeks, I’ve been working through Lesson Ten, which involves getting down to the business of being a dog trainer. As our regular readers know, my background was Read the Rest…

Review: Bo Regards ICE Plaque

Product: ICE Plaque What It Is: decorative plaque that alerts firefighters that you have pets in your home in case of an emergency Manufacturer: Bo Regards, Inc. (made in USA) DogTipper Review: We know that for us and for our readers, our pets are definitely a part of the family, to be protected as family Read the Rest…

Review: Make Dogs Your Life, Lesson 9

It’s hard to believe I’m now three-fourths of the way through the Make Dogs Your Life course for dog trainers. With each lesson, I’m enjoying learning about a segment of the dog training business. This week’s lesson focused on real-life examples of dog training as Fernando Camacho drew from six examples of clients he has Read the Rest…

Make Dogs Your Life Review, Lesson 8

It has been two weeks since my last review of the Make Dogs Your Life course for dog trainers. The past week I was (1) neck deep in income taxes and (2) doing the Lesson 8 materials twice to make sure I didn’t miss anything. Besides reminding me, once again, that I was SO glad Read the Rest…

Make Dogs Your Life Review: Lesson 7

I can’t believe I’m now on Lesson 7 out of 12 of the Make Dogs Your Life course for dog trainers! This week’s lesson was on one of the most hotly-debated subjects (outside of training!) in the dog world: nutrition. Dog nutrition is one area that always, always draws interest whenever we bring it up Read the Rest…

Review: Installing the Kwikset SmartKey Lock

This week we’re reviewing the KwikSet SmartKey Locks available at The Home Depot. In Monday’s post we looked at the different Kwikset SmartKey locks, Tuesday we went to our local store to select a lock, and in today’s post we’re installing! As we told you in yesterday’s post, we selected a Kwikset SmartKey lock with Read the Rest…

Review: Make Dogs Your Life, Lesson 6

Ahh, this week’s lesson in the Make Dogs Your Life course for dog trainers was on one of my favorite topics: puppies. Not only are puppies cuter than cute (that goes without saying) but I also love writing and talking abut puppies. Helping dog lovers during that small window of puppyhood can make all the Read the Rest…

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