Managing A Dog | After Biting Your Child

What is Management? In the dog training context, management refers to being in control of your dog’s environment to set them up for success and prevent specific behaviors from occurring or re-occurring. The goal when doing this is to control particular triggers...

The Best Toddler Game For Dogs

Teaching your dog and toddler a healthy T-ball game is a great bonding exercise for your family. When kids and dogs play together, the goal is to keep the dog in a state of mind where the focus is not on the child running or being active, but instead, they can channel...

How Is Your Dog Handling School Closures?

The current situation with the Coronavirus and kids being home more than usual could cause your dog’s tolerance level to change around children. Click here to watch a free segment from the Dogs to Diapers course that will help you recognize the signs your dog...

Dogs, Crates, and Kids

I love my daughters more than anything! But I would be lying if I said I never had a moment where I wanted to hide in a closet to get a moment of peace (or just to sneak a candy bar without having to share)! Knowing how easily we can get burnt out as parents should...

Dog Trainers Working With Expecting Families

Before I had kids, I would randomly get clients that needed their dog trained because a baby was on the way. I was naïve to think that I knew such a responsibility. Fortunately, no baby got hurt because of my ignorance. I walked into each situation like it was another...

Newborn Cries and Your Dog

Desensitizing dogs living in your household to the cries of your baby is one of the single most surprising things to those taking the Dogs to Diapers online course. People assume that when their dogs have previous exposure to any kid, they don’t need to prepare...