ROOT Dog Training is Positive Dog Training for You & Your Dog! We are Certified Pet Dog Trainers (CPDT) and TAGteach certified. We train everything from pet basics, conformation, field training and competition/rally obedience.
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- Location:
- Highland Park, IL, 60035
- Phone:
- 847 831-2419
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- Uptown Pup - The Social Puppy
Around Highland Park
Tuesday, June 30 at 7:00pm
ROOT Dog Training Sad news and a STRONG reminder how important it is to crate your dogs in the car. I just heard from a student who had a small grey poodle mix dog named Rosie. Sadly the owner and dog were in a rollover car accident and Rosie was killed. Please be safe - both you and your dogs. If you can't crate your dog please rest...rain them some way. Do it Rosie's memory! Thanks! Sara
ROOT Dog Training If anyone was thinking about signing up for the Heller Nature Center classes and has not done so please do by tomorrow - December 30th. Some of the classes are endanger of being cancelled. I know it's cold and dark at night but come on out and have some fun! Wags, Sara
ROOT Dog Training Just a reminder that the new session of classes in Highland Park start Jan. 6th. All 3 classes still have opening but the new year and classes will be here before you know it! Wags, Sara
ROOT Dog Training Just a reminder that today is the deadline for the "lottery" for the Park District of Highland Park dog training classes winter session. The winter session starts Jan. 6th. Wags & hope to see some of you there! Sara
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Here is an interesting link about how the media does identification of breeds involved in attacks. Very eye opening!
Sara
nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com
The Media: A Reliable Source for Dog Attack Data? *** What do these two dogs have in common? Both dogs were involved in a fatal attack on a
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There was a great B.C. comic the other day, making a joke about a certain TV trainer that uses a lot of punishment. Check it out, it's worth a good chuckle.
Wags, Sara
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Not sure who watches The Big Bang Theory on CBS but oh my this weeks episode was PRICELESS! BF Skinner & Thorndike both were mentioned. The roommate of one guy was using chocolate to "train" using positive reinforcement the other guy's girlfriend. The one guy does not like the girlfriend and thought that smoothing... out her "edges" would make more to everyone's liking! You have to watch. Here is a link to the clip. http://www.cbs.com/primetime/big_bang_th
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Watch The Big Bang Theory Video on CBS.com. Full Episodes, Clips and Behind the Scenes footage.
ROOT Dog Training I need some help! The Highland Park officials would like me to weave the H.P. Character Counts Mottos into my classes and relate them to dogs. The first one I have to tackle is - Trustworthiness! The thoughts I have so far are: Earn trust from your dog that you will not put him in un-safe situations. Earn trust fro...m your community that you have a well trained dog. Any other ideas? Thanks & Wags, Sara
ROOT Dog Training Rally Student Brag! Kellee & her mini Poodle Chuck earned their first 2 Rally Novice Legs! Both with first place finishes in Novice A - with a 99 & a 96. Wow - I think they have the Rally bug. Now they just need to find time out of their Agility schedule to show some more. I'm so proud! Wags, Sara
ROOT Dog Training The classes at Heller are filling up! The Family FUNdamentals is just one or 2 dogs shy of the limit. The Puppy FUNdamentals has room so if you know anyone with a puppy please feel free to pass along the information. You have to contact Heller Nature Center to sign up. Wags, Sara
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I took so many photos at the Shedd! Here is a link to the photos plus some off of a Shedd employee's camera who was also taking the class. If they are labeled with a just a number they are from my camera. The only video I took was from my iphone, but I'll post it shortly. If you have any questions about what you are looking at let me know.
Wags, Sara
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ROOT Dog Training Yesterday was the last day of the seminar. I'll sure be missing some of my new friends both animal and human! This photo is of Ken training Ty the California Sea Lion. He is not fully grown, and in this photo he is doing the "smile" behavior. The cue to smile is Ken smiling as you can see. Ty is an awesome animal ...to train and the relationship between him and Ken was beautiful.
ROOT Dog Training Today I got to train with the Belugas! Wow, they are so cool. Here is a photo of me with an adult female doing a lay out position that they train for exams. We also got to train her 2 year old calf who was so cute. They like their tounge scratched as a secondary reward, that was very fun to do. Tomorrow is another fun day.
ROOT Dog Training Today was day one of the seminar at the Shedd! Of course it was awesome. Here is a photo of Ken training some dolphins through the glass. Neat to see the lack of reinforcers directly from Ken and the dolphin still working.
ROOT Dog Training Puppy & Family FUNdamentals classes are starting at the Highland Park Park District on Wednesday, September 30th. More information can be found at this link
www.pdhp.org
