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We are really trying with Emmy, following the trainer's instructions. Sage and her shredded the training leash, so much for having it on whenever she is out of the cage. Okay, so we deal with that by using the training collar and looking her in the eye when she is misbehaving.......


Explain this: Not only did she escape from the training collar (the metal looped one), but SOMEHOW she got it to unloop!!! Now, anyone who has had one of these collars knows that it just doesn't happen like tha… Continue

I guess I didn' realize how lucky we were when we got Sage as a puppy. Or at least I don't remember her being "bad".



Thank the Lord that the place we purchased Emmy from provides free training for life (and even for the other dogs in the house). They happened to call us yesterday to check and see how Emmy was adjusting and we mentioned that she was having some behavioral issues. By this point I had already started reading the books by Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer (given to me by my par… Continue

It seems that Emmy is going to be a hard one to train. She is definintely quite a handful. I know it has only been a week, but it seems like forever and she is still nipping and biting with her razor sharp puppy teeth, picking up random things and running with them, looking for trouble as soon as I turn my back, and just overall not listening.



I know all of this is normal. But I don't remember having this much trouble with Sage. We had her sleeping in the bed the first night we got her, a… Continue