Thursday, June 1, 2023 | Advanced Dogs, Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Charm has been working on her sound alerts and spacing them out, as well as trying some of them outside or in a public space. She is always very enthusiastic to alert! Charm is also working on slowing down her energy and bringing more calm focus when out and about in...
Monday, May 1, 2023 | Advanced Dogs, Pupdates
Charm continues to enjoy her sound work and has been working on spacing out when they happen and trying different scenarios. She is doing an excellent job of resting in between sounds and then leaping up with enthusiasm when one goes off! Charm sometimes still has...
Saturday, April 1, 2023 | Advanced Dogs, Pupdates
This month Charm has taken some leaps and bounds in her sound work. She has learned 6 sounds in total now. She has been able to start alerting in variable scenarios with the sounds spaced out further and further apart. Charm still sometimes has a bit too much...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 | Advanced Dogs, Pupdates
Charm has been hard at work and is loving sound work. She has a solid nose bump and has learned several sounds now. She is showing her ability to be flexible in thinking and problem solve when doing the work. An area she is working on right now is her enthusiasm when...
Wednesday, February 1, 2023 | Advanced Dogs, Pupdates
Charm came into advanced training to work with Ashley this month. She has been settling well with her kennel mate, Cheshire, and enjoys play breaks with her. Charm has been working on settling on a station while other dogs work and is already getting good at relaxing...
Sunday, January 1, 2023 | Advanced Dogs, Pupdates
Charm is such an exuberant dog. She loves all people, all dogs and all new places! She is very alert to sounds but has not barked at all. Charm has had a fun month with lots of walks in the PSP with her friend PADS Swift and a visit with PADS Espresso. She especially...
Monday, November 21, 2022 | Advanced Dogs, Pupdates
Charm was beaming to get dropped off on her first day at Puppy-U! She was over the moon to have dog friends to play with and new people to meet. She met her bunkmate, Mosley, who had been in school for a while. Charm has made fast friends with Gloucester and Champ II....
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
This month has been filled with lots of fall activities for Charm. She joined the youth outing to the corn maze (and tried to race them through it), an outing to an apple and pumpkin farm and finally ended the month by dressing up for Halloween. She enjoyed taking...
Saturday, October 1, 2022 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
September means back to school for Charm and me. At school Charm loves when she gets to go visit with students, plus they need a study break. She is always wanting to move and work on training. Her hardest activity continues to be, do nothing while out. Sometimes she...
Thursday, September 1, 2022 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
At the start of August, we continued to enjoy getting outdoors during our summer break. Charm liked getting into a few longer trail walks and hikes in. Then I jumped on the opportunity for her to get spayed and have her be recovered before going back to school. The...
Monday, August 1, 2022 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
The end of the school year is behind us and this month we have been enjoying the change of pace of summer break. One main area of training is going to the park to just watch others walk by. With being off work we had the opportunity to help out with some puppy...
Friday, July 1, 2022 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
This month started with Charm going to a sitter for a week. There she was able to rest. While she was away, I adopted a cat. Charm has respected the cat’s space at the apartment. Then we had just a few weeks left of school. It was great to get to the end of the school...
Wednesday, June 1, 2022 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Charm was in heat at the start of the month and was still a little more tired afterwards. We continue to work on her durations and settling while out. One highlight was I went out to get a treat. She held her go-in without treats when I enjoyed my treat. At school,...
Sunday, May 1, 2022 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
This month Charm had a walk & talk with the trainers to see how she was doing. Her biggest struggles were settling and sniffing. She started to wear a gentle leader to help with the sniffing. She continues to make small progress with durations of her downs when...
Friday, April 1, 2022 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
This month we have made a moved and enjoyed spring break. It was nice to have some quiet time during spring break to settle into the apartment together. Charm always loves to work on training. One day we went into the courtyard out the apartment to work on going under...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
This month our focus was practicing settling in public. We went to the mall a few times to get Starbucks and settle. Charm has learned that if she looks down or away, she gets rewarded. Which has resulted in a cute chin to the floor at times. Submitted by: Rachel...
Saturday, January 1, 2022 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
This month we got in the full holiday spirit. During the last day of school before the break Santa came to school and had a nice visit with Charm. We got a lovely White Christmas and Charm loved playing in the snow. She join in for a couple small family get togethers...
Wednesday, December 1, 2021 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
This has been an interesting month. We started with working hard on getting sit on cue. With have also been working hard on touch and started to practice here in low distraction situations. Due to all the rain, our school pivoted to online learning for a week. The...
Monday, November 1, 2021 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Charm is very social and loves it when she gets to interact with everyone at school. She is learning to settle there and gets lots of Kongs to help her there. She was on her best behavior when spending the last two weekends at a sitter’s. Her training is going...
Friday, October 1, 2021 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
This month Charm has been back to work at school with me. She really likes to spend time with students and knows to sit nicely to be greeted. She struggles with sleeping while at school but is starting to get comfortable sleeping under my desk. On the weekend, we try...
Wednesday, September 1, 2021 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
This month we got to enjoy the trails as our way in moving for PADS. Charm did well learning to be off leash and staying here me while still enjoying the smells of the trail. At the end of the month we started to visit our school to things set up for her and get ready...
Sunday, August 1, 2021 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
This month we have been enjoying summer break and for Charm that means different public training outings. We have had a few meet ups with other PADS puppies for Charm to work on being calm around other dogs. One things she really enjoys are frozen Kongs, even if they...
Thursday, July 1, 2021 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
This has been a big month for Charm as we spent our first month together. She came to school with me regularly. During which she got to interact with a few students between her many naps. She is currently working on all things puppies as she experiences many new...
Thursday, June 17, 2021
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