Category: HGT’s Training

Umwelt :*)

pronounced: OOM-velt

When I am not training and enjoying our dogs, I am reading about our furry friends.  I have just finished a book by Alexandra Horowitz, “The Inside of a Dog”.  Love it!  It is written from a different prospective though – Horowitz explains from a scientific point of view how

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A Target = Patience & Pleasure

We have received many requests for instructions on introducing a target.  A target is an object that can be a large or small – whatever you want it to be, but to the dog it is a object that stops a behavior. I will discuss in this blog how to

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Let Their Spirits Soar…Rain or Shine!

It’s another rainy day here in Connecticut – so we decided to take the pups out for a run and return to a place very familiar to them – their back yard but in a different area of their yard…off the deck and down the hill – away from all our

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Oh…Say Can You SEE…

We hope everyone of our HGT families had a wonderful 4th!  We enjoyed our puppies, dogs, family and close friends today.

The master of (this) ceremony was our HGT Ozzy or Uncle Ozzy.  Ozzy stole the show today everyone marveled over how obedient he is.  To me he is very different

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bellissimi cuccioli bagnato

My cousins, Jan and Lisa, came for a visit this past weekend. It seems like each time our family gets together, we truly feel the strength, the friendship and the unwavering love that we have for each other. Each one of us own dogs and love our canine friends. We also

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