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Escape! Be Prepared In Advance
“We’ve lost a dog,” said Kathy, interrupting my ‘good morning’ phone greeting. Kathy and all her dog daycare staff were graduates of my Operation Find Fido Workshop. “What happened?” [...]
The Key Marketing Strategy You Can’t Ignore
Marketing is a word we hear all the time. We sometimes equate it with other words such as publicity, advertising, promotion, or sales. I want to equate it to a different word that [...]
3 Marketing Tools That Will Save You Time
In an earlier post I mentioned the key marketing strategy you can’t ignore and discussed why building relationships needed to be a key component of your marketing. These days social media makes this [...]
Which Playstyles Work Best Together?
Understanding playstyles helps to match the right dog's together. This month’s bonus Playstyle Management Chart provides you with an overview of some of the common breed types, what playstyle they most frequently present, [...]
What Benevolent Leadership Looks Like
The Dog Gurus are advocates of benevolent leadership and we often speak at seminars on this topic. It’s so important that at one point it was the first chapter [...]
What about punishing bad behavior?
Human beings are hard wired to discipline undesirable behavior. It is in our nature. So it’s not uncommon for people to ask me if it’s ok to punish the bad behavior of the [...]
Time Outs versus Rest Periods
Time outs and rest periods...what's the different? You’ll notice on our Problem Behavior Management Guide which is the bonus time this month that we’ve mentioned time outs as a way to work on some behavior [...]
Sample Playgroup Rotation Schedule
This month we are pleased to have a special bonus for all our members. Dog Guru members Jess and Dave Zellmer from Paws in Motion in King George, Virginia [...]
Match the Dog Game
Well, you know how we LOVE surprises! We also love giving away fun, free stuff to our members. So this month, since we are focusing on playstyles, we came up with a fun [...]
