Training With Hart

I saw a wonderful video recently of a wolf eating an apple. Yes, an apple. It made me curious about the things we feed our dogs and why they enjoy them. My dog absolutely loves apples, and will wake up from a sound sleep clear across the house at the first hint of a knife cutting into apple skin. He’ll also eat anything remotely resembling salad, which I find incredibly odd. So, what makes dogs eat leafy green vegetables and fresh fruit? It’s obviously inherent in their DNA,

“Who Rescued Who?” I’m sure you’ve seen that saying on bumper stickers before. Heck, I’ve got one on my own car. But this is truly a case of two souls rescuing each other. Sam, a German Shepherd, was rescued from a back yard, where she had been chained up, presumably for her entire life. When she was adopted by her human, Roger, she was severely underweight, and fearful of everything. When I met Roger and Sam, they had only been together for about a week. Roger wanted a servi

One of my favorite things about training dogs is helping people. I've learned a lot over the years about the relationships between people and their dogs, but there's something extra special about the relationship a person develops with a service dog. The first time I trained a dog to do a service task was in school at National K9. I trained my pitbull puppy to turn on the lights by flipping a switch with her paws. It was a long, grueling process for me and the dog, but when t