Happy Pups. Happy People. Happy Planet.
by Katie Genier KPA-CTP Dogs spend a lot of their time waiting around for something exciting to happen while we are at work, making dinner, watching tv, and many other human activities that don’t make a ton of sense to the dog mind. After hours of waiting around, it’s easy to understand why they may […]
By Jimmy Maxwell KPA-CTP When I was first starting out in my professional dog training adventure, I was training service dogs through clicker training. It was very rewarding, but also very difficult. The number of behaviors that a dog has to have down pat, and in the short span of about six months, is a […]
by Jimmy Maxwell KPA-CTP Let me start by throwing an honesty-bomb. This blog is going to come across a little strange. I am a trainer, who uses knowledge and experience to make a living. So, it would seem likely that in a blog about choosing the right dog trainer, I’m may talk about why I […]
By Jimmy Maxwell KPA-CTP I used to train service dogs and one of my favorite things about that work was taking the dogs to public places where normal pets can’t go. Being able to spend the day training a service dog to exist in our world, though challenging, was very rewarding. Outside of getting the […]
by Jimmy Maxwell KPA-CTP When I was a kid I really loved school, well, until about the 5th Grade, when I learned that the letter D was used for more than just spelling words. I learned that sometimes adults used that letter to show you that you were a short jump from being a huge […]
By Jimmy Maxwell KPA-CTP When humans are five years old, we begin to learn the basics of dealing with other humans, reacting to social situations, and surviving in the world. Most of us continue honing these skills at varying speeds and success rates for the next 12 years. Some of us opt to be gluttons […]
Hello, readers! Welcome to my first blog post. I tend to be pretty busy with the daily management here at Uptown, but sometimes I see and experience things and just have to share some thoughts. I’d love to hear yours in the comments! I was recently watching a TV show that featured a facility very […]
By Jimmy Maxwell KPA-CTP Just recently I was at a local little league baseball park, doing scent work with my dog in a nearby wood line and I had noticed that there was a dad and his son setting up some cones in an outfield. They had brought out a large measuring tape and measured […]