We are getting really close to get Skye wearing a collar! Look at her doing some training with her dad: Yay!

We started working on getting Skye to relax on her mat. Our training is inspired by the Dr. Karen Overall's protocol for relaxation. It's...

Skye did amazingly well today with the visit of her future pet sitter, so she got to get one of the last toys from her endless secret...

After Skye nipped Tanya, we took a step back in our pet sitter's introduction. Back to basic desensitization and counter-conditioning...

We always start our training session by a hand targeting, but Skye wasn't into it this morning... I have got to say that she is really...

A couple of painters came to do some work on the house. Skye wasn't very happy about it but instead of going outside in the yard, she...

Einkorn (Triticum monococcum) is a very ancient grain and the primitive ancestor to the commonly used modern dwarf wheat. Like modern...

Yes, chickens descend from the jungle fowl who themselves descend from the Tyrannosaurus rex (see "Her great-great-...-great-grandma was...

Training with Skye is a bit discouraging at time. Everything has to be decomposed in tiny little steps, and then we go very slowly...

We've been playing the ping-pong game with Skye for a few months and are now doing it through the backdoor. Look at her confidence with...

Einkorn (Triticum monococcum) is a very ancient grain and the primitive ancestor to the commonly used modern dwarf wheat. Like modern...

Look at this poor little doggie. All alone, outside in the rain... How can her humans not be moved by her puppy eyes and let her in?...

After experimenting with several meds to help Skye sleep at night without totally sedating her during the day after (see previous post on...

Tada! Look who is sleeping on her new bed without any piece of the old one!

Yeah! Skye is now 82% vegetarian :) Over the last 2 years, we have been slowly been replacing her beef kibbles by vegan ones. In addition...

Skye hanging out with me during an evening presentation :) Sometimes she would go to the door and put her head out to check what was...

Now that Skye accepted the new bed, we are trying to slowly remove the old cover. We folded it in two so it covered less of the bed. At...

We are continuing to make progress with the collar! Here we are getting used to the collar touching all the sides of her neck: Here we...

To train, or to sleep? That is the question we are having every day for the last two weeks. Skye has been doing fantastically with her...

Following the advice of our VB and dog trainer, we bought Skye a martingale collar. Martingale collars (aka no-slip, limited-slip, or...