CCI Puppies In Training

September 17, 2009

I follow a lot of blogs in my RSS reader and too no surprise one of my feeds are simple images and descriptions of adorable puppies.  Every once in a while they (The Daily Puppy) highlights a puppy in training.  In this case we are lucky enough to see Puppies In Training.
I’m sure The Daily [...]

Guide Dog Puppy Training At The Irvine Spectrum

June 29, 2009

If you were at the Irvine Spectrum this past weekend you may have seen 10 or so Guide Dog Puppies in Training walking around, working on obedience, and having a little fun.
This past Saturday our Orange County Guide Dog group had a little scavenger hunt also know as The Greatest Puppy Race.  We broke up [...]

Who Picks Up Guide Dog Poo?

May 19, 2009

How does a blind person pick up after a dogs poo?  Who picks up guide dog poo?  I’ve seen this question many, many times in my twitter feed and in comment threads.
Guide Dog Poo
This is a totally legitimate question:  How does a blind person pick up guide dog poop?  I asked this question a while [...]

Hotel For Dogs Review

February 23, 2009

Have you been looking for a Hotel For Dogs Review? by a dog? Derby (my yellow lab puppy in training) and I went to see Hotel For Dogs this past weekend with several of our fellow puppy raisers. We had the chance to do some training before the movie and after the [...]

Introducing The New Improved PuppyInTraining.com!

October 9, 2008

It’s been a long hard battle for me, but I finally gave the Puppy In Training website a much needed face lift. If you’re an RSS subscriber and only receive my articles in your feed reader or by email then take a moment to visit the new improved Puppy In Training website.
Gone is yesterday’s [...]

Finally…Back From Alaska

September 22, 2008

***WARNING THIS POST IS NOT ABOUT DOGS OR PUPPIES***
It’s been a while and I apologize for not getting a post up here on my blog a little sooner. I have been back from Alaska for two weeks and still no posts during those two weeks. Well…
The day after I returned from Alaska I [...]

Vacation To Alaska

August 31, 2008

I just thought I’d let everyone know that I’ll be in Alaska for the next 8 days.  Unfortunately, I won’t be bringing any of my dogs with me.  Lucky for me I was able to find three different families to watch my dogs.
I’ll do my best to try and get posts to the blog next [...]

Evolution Of A Puppy In Training Logo

July 30, 2008

In recent weeks I’ve been trying to redesign the Puppy In Training website and also create a new logo for said website. It’s been a long process, but everything is finally coming together and I wanted to show you some of my early thoughts on the logo design process and also some of [...]

The 20 Most Popular Puppy Names

June 22, 2008

While we’re still on the subject of puppy names I did a little research on some of the most popular puppy names. After looking over several most popular puppy names lists I noticed only one name (for males) beginning with the letter “D” inside the top 20. “Duke” was listed as the number [...]