Sunday, September 27, 2015

Upcoming 1/2 day conformation workshop!

Mark your calendars for December 6!  I will be doing a 4 hour, 1/2 day long workshop on The Ins and Outs of the Show Ring.  This will be a workshop for people who are just getting started in conformation and need some help in direction in how shows work, what to wear, how to enter and what the show dog needs to know.  Please let me know of your interest and I will put you on my list of interested clients!  This is a tentative date but will be confirmed soon!

Saturday, September 12, 2015

The Naturally Complete Canine Seminar with Anna Bettina

Braveheart Dog Training and Dodger's Paws Dog Training is proud to be hosting a seminar with Anna Bettina from Happy, Healthy Pup in Atlanta, Georgia.  The Naturally Complete Canine Seminar will give you tons of information about nutrition including homemade diets, as well as the use of other holistic remedies such as herbs and essential oils.  You won't want to miss this!  Register here!

Anna Bettina and Glaukos

Thursday, September 10, 2015

September Newsletter

It's funny that as Summer is winding down we seem to be just starting in with some really hot weather!  Keep yourselves and your animals safe!

Most of you probably know that after 8+ years we will no longer be teaching dog training classes with the Castro Valley Adult School.  They replaced the floor in their multi-purpose room and when they did they informed us that they no longer wanted to have dogs in the building and that they were moving forward with more fitness classes.  That's okay for Braveheart as we still offer our classes at our own San Leandro location and at Dodger's Paws in Pleasanton.

In addition to this change, we have also made some other changes to the direction of the business.  At this time, we will no longer be offering private behavior consultations.  Our only private lessons will be for conformation/show dog training and bird consultations.  We will continue to offer our usual wide variety of dog and puppy training classes and have added a Monday night conformation class to the schedule which is taught by Yvonne Chohan. Vicki will also continue to offer a very limited number of board and train dogs (small dogs and puppies) for conformation training as her schedule allows.  Day training may be available for some of our clients as well.

Thank you all for your understanding and ongoing support.

DOG OF THE MONTH

Baxter is a sweet Labradoodle boy who has completed several of our classes with his owners Dorrie and Ryan.  He is shown here after earning his Canine Good Citizen award.  We love having this awesome family in our classes.



BRAGS
Those of you who participate in dog sports please feel free to let me know about your brags so I can share them here.

Congratulations to my own dog Opie (Aviance's Opportunity Knocks SL) who finished his championship with a 5 point specialty major.

Congratulations to Bernice Jensen and her Bulldog Bigges on completing his championship.

Congratulations to Cheryl Hawthorne and her Leonberger Bogey who completed his championship.

Congratulations to Jerry Caldwell and his Australian Cattle Dog Sly Cly who has had a few wins and obtained some championship points.

Congratulations to Rhonda Perkins and her Dachshund Emeril who recently got Reserve Winner's Dog at the Santa Rosa show.