Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Lights, Camera, Action! Some pooches show off for the camera and a star visits the ranch!

If you have been following the blog, you have met Turbo and Vigo, an unlikely couple who came to us for help with dog aggression and obedience. They are visiting California from Oregon and decided to spend some time with the trainers of The Collared Scholar for help with the issues they were having. Here is a video of them learning a few new commands. Keep in mind, this is only their third lesson and it is the FIRST time the Place command was introduced. What smart pooches!



Also, some big news is brewing here at The Collared Scholar, yesterday, a reality TV celeb dropped off her mini poodle JJ for some in kennel training. Poor JJ is pretty fearful and snaps at other dogs, has an issue with submissive urination and is just plain scared of the world. But don't fear JJ, The Collared Scholar is here to help. This particular reality TV personality has a particular love for doggies and has developed a line of ridiculously adorable doggie neckwear that is now being sold online and in some high end pet stores. Her neckwear is made from imported, recycled and vintage materials and you can check it out online at Damaged Threads. Keep an eye out for JJ's shocking transformation........

Monday, January 11, 2010

Agility Training at The Collared Scholar!

For those of you who don't know, we recently launched our new Agility classes! We are offering an Introduction to Agility class Saturday mornings and we are also hosting an Agility Club designed to give dogs who may lack certain social skills the ability to train and compete in agility!

This past Saturday, we held our graduation day. We set up an obstacle course featuring all of the obstacles our students learned over the 6 week course and held a mini competition. We are very proud of all of our students and are excited for them to join the club and fine tune their training for competition!

Here is a video of Graduation Day!



And for those of you who were in our first Agility Class, we did video graduation so don't feel left out. We are having some "technical difficulties" and hope to have the video posted ASAP.