June 2, 2021 • 24 mins
Dog owners and trainers both face challenges in keeping training new, fresh, and interesting for both dogs and their owners. If training becomes rote and boring, no one is going to have fun with it and if you're not having fun, you're less likely to do it. If the dog doesn't enjoy it, he's less likely to cooperate. Kindred Spirits is introducing a new program that combines obedience training, trick training, and games. Join Liz, Petra, and Kate as they talk about their hopes for it.
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EPISODE NOTES: Work and Play
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Pet Life Radio. Let's talk pets.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Welcome to it. It's a doggy dog World. I'm your host,
Liz Polaika with my good friends Peter Burke and Kate Abbott,
and we're going to talk about something a little different
that Kindred Spirits Dog Training is introducing. It's in its
pilot program program experimental stage called work and Play. So
(00:45):
we're going to talk about that a little bit, what
it is, why it's being introduced, and some of the
things that they're going to try. It may change along
the way, in fact, with most introductory things that you
usually do change along the way. But we'll talk about
what's going to get started. So why did this come about?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Well, we used to Mamber years ago. We used to
have what we call a dropping class. People come in,
have an hour and we just kind of mix it up.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Graduates of our basic class were eligible.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We didn't it was basic.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Anybody who had to take basic class and any others
after basic class.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
War was not just public class had.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
To be Ye had to be basic, and we just
mixed it up. We would do obedience, we would do games, and.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Then one time we had a goat.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
You had distractions, a boat, I had a big lizard
of some sort of tattoo take.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
We had a ghost that happened to wander by instay
we couldn't get rid of, but he made quite the distraction.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
And so we had kind of I don't know, we
stopped that.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Way different week.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, and that was a lot of fun. And then
I don't know, I think it just I'm not sure
what happened. We stopped doing it a couple of years ago.
It was before the COVID, but I think it was
during one of the economic recessions and it just kind
of dwindled, so we needed to think of something fresh.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Then, of course, of this whole COVID thing, things shut down.
But now that we're busy and we've got people asking
even when they do basic class, it's not wants something
between to keep them and their dogs going in some
type of programs. Is there's something between basic class and
intermediate class or came because our classes fill up so quickly,
(02:44):
so you know, canin gets business fulls or something else.
So we came up with this fun little idea of
work and play.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I think you came up with the name Kate to do.
It's almost it's almost a little bit of a schmortash
board of the advanced classes, you know, the tricks classes,
one class all in and of itself, but in this
work and play teach a few tricks.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
We have a little bit of intermediate in this class,
and again intermediate class as a whole separate class in
itself as well, and of course the basics, just to
keep them freshing and keeping just basic commands going.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So we came up with this.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
It was a little bit of work, which is you know,
your normal sit stays, your heel weights, just the basic commands.
And then we're gonna add some tricks for fun, just
just something different. And like we said, it's still training.
The tricks, simple tricks like the spin, shake, touch touch
one of my favorites. Yeah, and then we were gonna
introduce some of the base the easier of the intermediate commands,
(03:43):
like stan, which is so nice to have whether you're
brushing your dog or have to draw them off. And
then games and games is something new we did when
we were doing that dropping class. Now we want to
come back and games are the time to push ups
or walking with the and a tennis ball and the
same hand as your holding your leash and that's always
(04:04):
fun to Seeky does your dog pull on a leash
or not?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Especially for the dogs that are tennis ball crazy?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh my gosh, we have a few those. Yeah, so
self control.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You got to put the tennis ball in the big
spoon and hold that in the same hand that you're
holding the leash with your dog healing next to you,
not giving the tennis ball, not getting the tennis ball.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
And ideally not leaping for it either.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Actually, the last time we did it in advanced Yeah,
we did it. They did very well. The only time
it happened was when the owner's tripped. It was human error,
not the dogs. Yeah, pulling.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You don't have my favorite game on the list of
bobbing for biscuits?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Oh yeah, no, it's not on your No, when it
gets warmer, maybe outside the warehouse, that's fun though.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You drop give the owner a box a bucket full
and the water. So they dropped the biscuit in. I
has to get it and then give it give it
to you without eating it. So it's how many biscuits
do you get back soggy?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah? Is the Cisco was my hero with that. I
think he did like twenty and thirty seconds one time
grabbed spit, grabbed spin, grab spin. He figured out the
game part of it. He didn't even try to eat it.
Archer was the one. Grab let me eat it really
(05:31):
really quick and hand I'll grab another one.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I'll just swallow it. Hole, thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I think we got one and the one.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Also, it's fun. It's the musical huloops. It's like musical chairs.
You know, well what did.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
We had to stop using chairs because the people got
so dark competitive and they broke a couple of chairs
and knock people backwards. So we had to go hula
hoops with the dogs sitting in them rather than people
in the chairs.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
They do seem to be a little wire that way.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Remember the time before we moved to the training yard
on eastwist Away. We did it in the long walkway
on the concrete. Oh yes, and that group of people
who was so competitive, bodies slamming each other, shoving.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
When you live says that someone is competitive, That.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Means they're really really pay attention. It was like stop
it to the people. Yeah, and I think that's when
we went to hula hoops.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
But it's a fun way for the people to and
their puppy dogs to practice. You know, you can heal
for so long. Yeah, and this kind of does get
kind of boring, even if I am leaping around creating distractions,
but when you have a game going, and especially if
it's a relay game with your teammates, yes, cheering you
(07:02):
on or consoling you.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Or you've got somebody competitive from the back going, gosh
darn it, you know how to do that, which is
why I'm not exactly exactly. Yeah, so so we want
to show this.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yes, you can have, you know, work your obedience, but
then let's have some fun, and then we'll work a
little bit of medience, and then we'll have some more fun.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
So mix it up. I mean, an hour long class
could take a while. Yeah, when they already pretty much
know the skills, so they don't need a whole lot
of lecture exactly. This keeps them moving through most of
the hour.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
And one of the ones we're bringing back we haven't
done a while is the flower pot putting a treat under.
We're gonna have you have like three flower pots and
they'll put a treat and the dog has to use
their nose to find the treat under the flower pot.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
So that'll be fun.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
The other one which I am looking that have here,
We're gonna have to do it on his heel with
a cup of water. So besides the spoon and ball,
is that full cup of water?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Oh beef broth? Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, you just don't. You don't. You're not the one
that has to mop.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
The floor upside beef broth.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
So you can do it on an individual basis, how
much water do you come back with? Or do it
as a team where there's a bucket at the other
end exactly and they have to dump their water into
the first team to fill up the bucket. When's that thing?
Fabulous prizes?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Way? What if?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
What if you picked for prizes? We haven't got a
long round of applause.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Cookies?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
And then one of them was actually dress up for
our games?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Oh notice your former boss? Or what if your boss
commented on, oh why my dog was dressing pajamas? And
I gave him a mini lecture that was pretty funny.
It was in a nice but firm tone of voice,
and he didn't comment anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
He just liked my what I.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Said, ma'am, I think that was it.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yes, but it is good for dogs to be exposed
to novelty and learn to go with it. Be Get
used to having things on their body in case they
ever need a bandage.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Seven just got spade Yep, much to her dismay, she
was too long bodied for the inflatable collar thing and
had to go to the cone because the body thing
didn't show up to tie on the back fits over
the tummy.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, they have a phrase for it. Now it escapes me.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I have no idea after surgery. Ware is the name
of the stuff, but.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It's a onesie. It's a onesie that ties up the back. Yeah,
keep your dog from messing with their stitches or wounds.
Leave things alone.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
And then besides dress up warring things, booties.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah, him to wear boots.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Whether toenails or was it Quil had a tonail ripped out?
Missus dogs had toails broke. Oh.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Bones got used to wearing bandages on his feet real
early in his life. In fact, he did it so
many times he would just lift upot. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, Quill still hasn't His nail has not grown back.
That's how much he ripped it out.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Well, Bones's new claws that he ripped multiple times now
grows back, deformed and in fact, I have to watch
it because it curves him so tight it grows into
his foot.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Recovery suit was the term that I had heard.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Oh, but I also.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Like suitical suit like it does that's my giggle. Yeah,
or after surgeryware.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I was going to use that after surgery wear for seven,
but I ordered it from two different places. Both were
back ordered. Once just just came a day or two
ago and she doesn't need it now, and the other
one was back ordered until June fourteenth. So you have
your dog spade.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, that's a nice alternative to the collar.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
The first two days with the conan, she didn't move much, obviously,
and she's on pain meds. But then you know, the
cone weighs ten pounds. Yeah, so it's on her head.
It was very sad, and all.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
The other dogs and cats in the house hate it too.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
No, she didn't move enough for Carol was the one
that took everybody out. Your kitten liked it. Oh, the kitten,
you know, with an eight week called kitten in the
house at the time. Seven would be laying down with
her head on the floor. Kitten and seven get along
real good. Anyway, The kitten climbed into the cone, the
(12:04):
cone on top of her head and under her head
and sniffing her ears, and so there's in Of course,
as soon as I moved to pick up my phone,
the kitten was gone. But I'm sitting there laughing my
head off, and there's a kitten crawling it. She's a
little bit of kitten. She's the size of Seven's nose,
crawling around, and Seven's just rolling your eyes like, kill
(12:28):
me now the cone, Now the kitten.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
What you're gonna do with Simon sins?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
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Speaker 1 (12:41):
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Speaker 3 (12:54):
So, what's your.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Reaction, Kate when you hear Ben and Jerry's now has
dog treats?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Now, I won't have to share my ice cream with
them anymore, because you know, anybody comes near me when
I'm eating my Ben and Jerri's, They're likely to get
growled at.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
No, I think it's a cool idea. I've sometimes made
my dog's frozen treats or gotten some that are commercially available,
But considering how much I love Ben and Jerry's, it's
about time my puppy dog's got to enjoy that as well.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
I know of my favorite one is the cherry Garcia.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Oh my god. Yeah, I'll growl. Anybody comes near me,
I'll meet that.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I'm a chunky monkey freak. Yeah, I like that that way.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
But also I love peanut butter.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
And did you know that one of the don you
dog flavors is paunch and has peanut butter and pretzels.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Ooh, and Rosie has pumpkin and many cookies. That's am
I an. I I'm sure it has lots of cookies too,
but they're a little small cookies and they're many cookies
and pumpkin, which I do give my boy pumpkin in
his dinner, so this had actually been a nicer way
for him to get it.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Yeah, so I think I would qualify mine in the
freezer is my ice cream. And then I have to
label the dog's version of Ben and Jerry's as the
frozen Treat Dogy Dessert.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And one way you can tell is instead of the
black and white cow on the front of the little container,
it's a black and white dog for the dog treat,
so you can tell which one is which because it's
their dog. Frozen treats are are not designed for humans,
made with human quality ingredients, but not designed for humans,
(14:31):
so you do want to keep them separate. And I
can only give my boy a little bit if I
dare of my own ice cream, my Ben and Jerry's
ice cream, because yeah, it doesn't always set well with him, but.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Now he has his own, He's gonna have his own,
all right. So go out there, buy some for your
furry little friend there and enjoy together.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Enjoy.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
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Speaker 3 (15:12):
Welcome back to It's a Doggy Dog World. This is
your host, Liz Pelika with my good friends Patri Burke
and Kate Abbott.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
You know, when we're kids, we do it. You know,
Simon says run or three steps steps two steps back,
you know, stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
So anyway, I was gonna do the same things.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
You know, we just have walking and Simon says sit
or Simon says down, then heal. And if somebody does
it and I hadn't said, Simon says out that kind
of thing.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, that was always a lot of fun. We would
do that on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Nights a lot mm hm is the owner listening.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Yes, yeah, exactly exactly. And then push ups. We teach
puppy push ups, so that's always fun. Now is that
little challenge? So time them and see who how many
push ups within?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
For this one too, you could do stand, sit down,
stand sit down push ups.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
M h mm hmm yeah, because we will we keep
stand in the week one yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Or once they've had some trick training, stand, roll over,
sit right down, Oh yeah, all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
So sleapbrog's sleep bronk.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Oh, we haven't done that a long time. It's great
fun we would have.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
In this case, we'll do one dog will do a down,
then the other dog and the owner goes behind it
and goes beside the dog.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You know, six feet rock bottle up protocol, and then.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
They have to down and then the third one will
go down, so you have one, two three. Once the
third dog is down the first one now has to
go all the way past the third. You know what
I'm saying. So it's one, two, three, and then one
goes next to three, and then two goes next.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
To one and then three. Kind are they actually jumping over?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
No, I'm not gonna have to do that because I
don't think that would be We used to do that.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
We used to do over. Yeah, we used to have
a line of six off and first you do it
in the hill and then you leave the dog at
a wait and see if he'll jump and see him
to come over. Uh huh. That was fun trust with
all the dogs, right, No, that wasn't with the class dogs.
That was yeah, the class dogs.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, trying to imagine the papion jumping over the great
Dane Benny over. He is such a good boy.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
But you know what, you could work on your guys
and demo it with your guys. Have the big dogs
down and have Quill jump. Because Kate looks at.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Mike Will, My boy was sitting here sticking his toe
in his mouth and I'm I'm what what are you doing?
He looks embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I look to.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah, three week class just to get him a taste
of it.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Ye think going back to it dropping at some point
if it works, you.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Know, it all depends because right now we have to
have our class size limit.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
That's why we're doing this. Yeah, that would be the
hard part is yeah. But yeah, well even if you
do this on a rotating basis and say, okay, the
people that attend this class can't come back and tell
the class after next and so you get a fresh
batch in and then you know, taking new ones rotate
(18:25):
the other's just say you can't do this, this one,
this one, this one, and this one.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
We can't do it. Drop in right now because we
need to know for sure, because we need the time.
My gosh, we're booked out for a month a dance.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Ye were in June.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Yeah, they're literally booked through May. We're not even May yet.
We're literally all our classes are.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Booked, and we have our list of people that if
an opening comes up, yeah, get me in.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Some booked, which is lovely, it's great. So we want
to throw something else in there for the people who
are waiting that.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
You don't want people to get so frustrated that they elsewhere. Yeah, right, right,
so this is just right now.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
It is like a just a three week class that
we could throw our different days of the week, so
people we can't do Mondays and we would throw it
on a Saturday. And this is three weeks, so kind
of it's easy just to pop in here and there.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
We've got a lot of people that want to do
a therapy dog class, but we don't really feel comfortable.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Well, you can't do therapy dog work right now. I
just found out last week that the facility bones has
been visiting for years, and then I've had three dogs
visiting this facility and it's not reopening. That's so sad
period period. The director called me the other day letting
me know that she was being transferred, and I said, well,
(19:43):
who's going to be a replacement? How do I get
you know when COVID lits up? And she says, this
facility and the one in Los Angeles are they're run
by the state and are being closed. The building's going
used for something else. All the personnel has been reassigned
and they will not be reopening. Man.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, I understand that there are some places in the
nation that are still doing visits, just not in our area.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
I think it'd be nice when they start so those
people need it.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah, they really need it. It's gonna be so important.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I guess around here they have been doing some outside
therapy visits.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
But that's pretty limited. Yeah, I mean it's hard to
do a therapy dog visit six feet away. You can
only do so many tricks and yeah, things like that. Yeah,
when what people really want to do is pet the dog.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Snug and huggle, hang on to the dog by the
fingers of the fur.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Yeah, every Wednesday. Bones bugged me for about five or
six months and then he gave up.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, it's a shame that they're closing that down.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, it was such a good program. So when all
of a sudden done, Bones and I'll probably be looking
for something different for him. It'll have to be with kids.
He just absolutely adored that. Not me so much.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
But that's just the weird part. Like kids, unless is like, okay,
you just stay over there.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Well, especially now, kids are germ factories. Oh I've had
two vaccines. But hey, you know, you guys are making
me sound bad anyway. So that's the plan. So if
you're going to training with another trainer, maybe talk to them,
have them listen to this podcast. Maybe they might want
to try something like this, or if you're a trainer
(21:28):
listening to it, think about your program because it sounds
like it could be great to keep dogs and owners
working and interested in having fun without repeating the same
thing over and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Even if you only do one game per class, sure
you know, to get people. I still love Tictac dog
on the ground.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
That's another one that gets compelled to. One team has.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
To do dog sit, one team has to do dog down.
And but it's a good way to practice along down.
Uh huh, and do it in an atmosphere of excitement
instead of everybody just standing around being very very quiet.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah. Well, the excitement makes for distractions for the dogs exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Oh yeah, then I don't have to work as hard
doing all the distractions.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Yeah, could you do a really good job? I do
try our advanced class just loves it or not? Well,
I think the students like it. The dogs have a
different opinion.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
When it comes to the next to the last class
for the Advanced. Just to let you know, I will
be showing up in my t Rex dinosaur.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Oh. I was going to ask if you had done that. Yeah,
I don't want to do.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
It on graduation because they're already stressed out. It's not
going to do it the week ahead of time.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Oh boy, So any students who are listening, I have
a cough. There was on one of our students.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
When Kate goes into her shed of things, the class goes, oh,
did I just start giggling. I'm like, yep, you don't
know what she's gonna come out with. And we had
remote control mouse this past one. I'd say rat, a
rat control rat.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
What else did you had that?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I had the little walking dog work walking marking dog
on a string.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Yeah, with the walking barking dog and the dogs were
doing If you brought out the ape I've been having.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Trouble getting it to connect with it's remote control, but
it is amazing when it is.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
There and the people and it really is an apeed.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
It really is.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Yeah, it's all sorts of noises and sounds.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Wow. We make really amazing toys.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Wow. That's the name of the company.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
So we had one student who I guess we're a
class she went to to do. She's doing something special
class we don't offer. The person there was trying to
do the distraction. So she's like they couldn't do it.
Person tried, it wasn't like you, and we'll let you go.
(24:07):
Have a good one.
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Welcome to it. It's a doggy dog World. I'm your host,
Liz Polaika with my good friends Peter Burke and Kate Abbott,
and we're going to talk about something a little different
that Kindred Spirits Dog Training is introducing. It's in its
pilot program program experimental stage called work and Play. So
(00:45):
we're going to talk about that a little bit, what
it is, why it's being introduced, and some of the
things that they're going to try. It may change along
the way, in fact, with most introductory things that you
usually do change along the way. But we'll talk about
what's going to get started. So why did this come about?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Well, we used to Mamber years ago. We used to
have what we call a dropping class. People come in,
have an hour and we just kind of mix it up.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Graduates of our basic class were eligible.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We didn't it was basic.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Anybody who had to take basic class and any others
after basic class.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
War was not just public class had.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
To be Ye had to be basic, and we just
mixed it up. We would do obedience, we would do games, and.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Then one time we had a goat.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
You had distractions, a boat, I had a big lizard
of some sort of tattoo take.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
We had a ghost that happened to wander by instay
we couldn't get rid of, but he made quite the distraction.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
And so we had kind of I don't know, we
stopped that.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Way different week.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, and that was a lot of fun. And then
I don't know, I think it just I'm not sure
what happened. We stopped doing it a couple of years ago.
It was before the COVID, but I think it was
during one of the economic recessions and it just kind
of dwindled, so we needed to think of something fresh.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Then, of course, of this whole COVID thing, things shut down.
But now that we're busy and we've got people asking
even when they do basic class, it's not wants something
between to keep them and their dogs going in some
type of programs. Is there's something between basic class and
intermediate class or came because our classes fill up so quickly,
(02:44):
so you know, canin gets business fulls or something else.
So we came up with this fun little idea of
work and play.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I think you came up with the name Kate to do.
It's almost it's almost a little bit of a schmortash
board of the advanced classes, you know, the tricks classes,
one class all in and of itself, but in this
work and play teach a few tricks.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
We have a little bit of intermediate in this class,
and again intermediate class as a whole separate class in
itself as well, and of course the basics, just to
keep them freshing and keeping just basic commands going.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So we came up with this.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
It was a little bit of work, which is you know,
your normal sit stays, your heel weights, just the basic commands.
And then we're gonna add some tricks for fun, just
just something different. And like we said, it's still training.
The tricks, simple tricks like the spin, shake, touch touch
one of my favorites. Yeah, and then we were gonna
introduce some of the base the easier of the intermediate commands,
(03:43):
like stan, which is so nice to have whether you're
brushing your dog or have to draw them off. And
then games and games is something new we did when
we were doing that dropping class. Now we want to
come back and games are the time to push ups
or walking with the and a tennis ball and the
same hand as your holding your leash and that's always
(04:04):
fun to Seeky does your dog pull on a leash
or not?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Especially for the dogs that are tennis ball crazy?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh my gosh, we have a few those. Yeah, so
self control.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You got to put the tennis ball in the big
spoon and hold that in the same hand that you're
holding the leash with your dog healing next to you,
not giving the tennis ball, not getting the tennis ball.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
And ideally not leaping for it either.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Actually, the last time we did it in advanced Yeah,
we did it. They did very well. The only time
it happened was when the owner's tripped. It was human error,
not the dogs. Yeah, pulling.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You don't have my favorite game on the list of
bobbing for biscuits?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Oh yeah, no, it's not on your No, when it
gets warmer, maybe outside the warehouse, that's fun though.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You drop give the owner a box a bucket full
and the water. So they dropped the biscuit in. I
has to get it and then give it give it
to you without eating it. So it's how many biscuits
do you get back soggy?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah? Is the Cisco was my hero with that. I
think he did like twenty and thirty seconds one time
grabbed spit, grabbed spin, grab spin. He figured out the
game part of it. He didn't even try to eat it.
Archer was the one. Grab let me eat it really
(05:31):
really quick and hand I'll grab another one.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I'll just swallow it. Hole, thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I think we got one and the one.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Also, it's fun. It's the musical huloops. It's like musical chairs.
You know, well what did.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
We had to stop using chairs because the people got
so dark competitive and they broke a couple of chairs
and knock people backwards. So we had to go hula
hoops with the dogs sitting in them rather than people
in the chairs.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
They do seem to be a little wire that way.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Remember the time before we moved to the training yard
on eastwist Away. We did it in the long walkway
on the concrete. Oh yes, and that group of people
who was so competitive, bodies slamming each other, shoving.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
When you live says that someone is competitive, That.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Means they're really really pay attention. It was like stop
it to the people. Yeah, and I think that's when
we went to hula hoops.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
But it's a fun way for the people to and
their puppy dogs to practice. You know, you can heal
for so long. Yeah, and this kind of does get
kind of boring, even if I am leaping around creating distractions,
but when you have a game going, and especially if
it's a relay game with your teammates, yes, cheering you
(07:02):
on or consoling you.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Or you've got somebody competitive from the back going, gosh
darn it, you know how to do that, which is
why I'm not exactly exactly. Yeah, so so we want
to show this.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yes, you can have, you know, work your obedience, but
then let's have some fun, and then we'll work a
little bit of medience, and then we'll have some more fun.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
So mix it up. I mean, an hour long class
could take a while. Yeah, when they already pretty much
know the skills, so they don't need a whole lot
of lecture exactly. This keeps them moving through most of
the hour.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
And one of the ones we're bringing back we haven't
done a while is the flower pot putting a treat under.
We're gonna have you have like three flower pots and
they'll put a treat and the dog has to use
their nose to find the treat under the flower pot.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
So that'll be fun.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
The other one which I am looking that have here,
We're gonna have to do it on his heel with
a cup of water. So besides the spoon and ball,
is that full cup of water?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Oh beef broth? Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, you just don't. You don't. You're not the one
that has to mop.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
The floor upside beef broth.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
So you can do it on an individual basis, how
much water do you come back with? Or do it
as a team where there's a bucket at the other
end exactly and they have to dump their water into
the first team to fill up the bucket. When's that thing?
Fabulous prizes?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Way? What if?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
What if you picked for prizes? We haven't got a
long round of applause.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Cookies?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
And then one of them was actually dress up for
our games?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Oh notice your former boss? Or what if your boss
commented on, oh why my dog was dressing pajamas? And
I gave him a mini lecture that was pretty funny.
It was in a nice but firm tone of voice,
and he didn't comment anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
He just liked my what I.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Said, ma'am, I think that was it.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yes, but it is good for dogs to be exposed
to novelty and learn to go with it. Be Get
used to having things on their body in case they
ever need a bandage.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Seven just got spade Yep, much to her dismay, she
was too long bodied for the inflatable collar thing and
had to go to the cone because the body thing
didn't show up to tie on the back fits over
the tummy.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, they have a phrase for it. Now it escapes me.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I have no idea after surgery. Ware is the name
of the stuff, but.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It's a onesie. It's a onesie that ties up the back. Yeah,
keep your dog from messing with their stitches or wounds.
Leave things alone.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
And then besides dress up warring things, booties.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah, him to wear boots.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Whether toenails or was it Quil had a tonail ripped out?
Missus dogs had toails broke. Oh.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Bones got used to wearing bandages on his feet real
early in his life. In fact, he did it so
many times he would just lift upot. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, Quill still hasn't His nail has not grown back.
That's how much he ripped it out.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Well, Bones's new claws that he ripped multiple times now
grows back, deformed and in fact, I have to watch
it because it curves him so tight it grows into
his foot.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Recovery suit was the term that I had heard.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Oh, but I also.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Like suitical suit like it does that's my giggle. Yeah,
or after surgeryware.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I was going to use that after surgery wear for seven,
but I ordered it from two different places. Both were
back ordered. Once just just came a day or two
ago and she doesn't need it now, and the other
one was back ordered until June fourteenth. So you have
your dog spade.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, that's a nice alternative to the collar.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
The first two days with the conan, she didn't move much, obviously,
and she's on pain meds. But then you know, the
cone weighs ten pounds. Yeah, so it's on her head.
It was very sad, and all.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
The other dogs and cats in the house hate it too.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
No, she didn't move enough for Carol was the one
that took everybody out. Your kitten liked it. Oh, the kitten,
you know, with an eight week called kitten in the
house at the time. Seven would be laying down with
her head on the floor. Kitten and seven get along
real good. Anyway, The kitten climbed into the cone, the
(12:04):
cone on top of her head and under her head
and sniffing her ears, and so there's in Of course,
as soon as I moved to pick up my phone,
the kitten was gone. But I'm sitting there laughing my
head off, and there's a kitten crawling it. She's a
little bit of kitten. She's the size of Seven's nose,
crawling around, and Seven's just rolling your eyes like, kill
(12:28):
me now the cone, Now the kitten.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
What you're gonna do with Simon sins?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
All right, Well, we need to take a break for
our sponsors, so hold on, We've got a lot more
to talk about when we get back. Sit.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Stay. It's a doggy dog world. Will be right back
after a short pause. Well for to be exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
So, what's your.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Reaction, Kate when you hear Ben and Jerry's now has
dog treats?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Now, I won't have to share my ice cream with
them anymore, because you know, anybody comes near me when
I'm eating my Ben and Jerri's, They're likely to get
growled at.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
No, I think it's a cool idea. I've sometimes made
my dog's frozen treats or gotten some that are commercially available,
But considering how much I love Ben and Jerry's, it's
about time my puppy dog's got to enjoy that as well.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
I know of my favorite one is the cherry Garcia.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Oh my god. Yeah, I'll growl. Anybody comes near me,
I'll meet that.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I'm a chunky monkey freak. Yeah, I like that that way.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
But also I love peanut butter.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
And did you know that one of the don you
dog flavors is paunch and has peanut butter and pretzels.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Ooh, and Rosie has pumpkin and many cookies. That's am
I an. I I'm sure it has lots of cookies too,
but they're a little small cookies and they're many cookies
and pumpkin, which I do give my boy pumpkin in
his dinner, so this had actually been a nicer way
for him to get it.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Yeah, so I think I would qualify mine in the
freezer is my ice cream. And then I have to
label the dog's version of Ben and Jerry's as the
frozen Treat Dogy Dessert.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And one way you can tell is instead of the
black and white cow on the front of the little container,
it's a black and white dog for the dog treat,
so you can tell which one is which because it's
their dog. Frozen treats are are not designed for humans,
made with human quality ingredients, but not designed for humans,
(14:31):
so you do want to keep them separate. And I
can only give my boy a little bit if I
dare of my own ice cream, my Ben and Jerry's
ice cream, because yeah, it doesn't always set well with him, but.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Now he has his own, He's gonna have his own,
all right. So go out there, buy some for your
furry little friend there and enjoy together.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Enjoy.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Let's talk past.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Let's past headline.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
RADIOTLVE radio dot com. We know, oh you're begging for more,
So back to It's a Doggy Dog World with your
fetching hosts Liz Polika and this week's co host Kate
Abbitt and Patria Burke.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Welcome back to It's a Doggy Dog World. This is
your host, Liz Pelika with my good friends Patri Burke
and Kate Abbott.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
You know, when we're kids, we do it. You know,
Simon says run or three steps steps two steps back,
you know, stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
So anyway, I was gonna do the same things.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
You know, we just have walking and Simon says sit
or Simon says down, then heal. And if somebody does
it and I hadn't said, Simon says out that kind
of thing.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, that was always a lot of fun. We would
do that on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Nights a lot mm hm is the owner listening.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Yes, yeah, exactly exactly. And then push ups. We teach
puppy push ups, so that's always fun. Now is that
little challenge? So time them and see who how many
push ups within?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
For this one too, you could do stand, sit down,
stand sit down push ups.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
M h mm hmm yeah, because we will we keep
stand in the week one yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Or once they've had some trick training, stand, roll over,
sit right down, Oh yeah, all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
So sleapbrog's sleep bronk.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Oh, we haven't done that a long time. It's great
fun we would have.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
In this case, we'll do one dog will do a down,
then the other dog and the owner goes behind it
and goes beside the dog.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You know, six feet rock bottle up protocol, and then.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
They have to down and then the third one will
go down, so you have one, two three. Once the
third dog is down the first one now has to
go all the way past the third. You know what
I'm saying. So it's one, two, three, and then one
goes next to three, and then two goes next.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
To one and then three. Kind are they actually jumping over?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
No, I'm not gonna have to do that because I
don't think that would be We used to do that.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
We used to do over. Yeah, we used to have
a line of six off and first you do it
in the hill and then you leave the dog at
a wait and see if he'll jump and see him
to come over. Uh huh. That was fun trust with
all the dogs, right, No, that wasn't with the class dogs.
That was yeah, the class dogs.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, trying to imagine the papion jumping over the great
Dane Benny over. He is such a good boy.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
But you know what, you could work on your guys
and demo it with your guys. Have the big dogs
down and have Quill jump. Because Kate looks at.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Mike Will, My boy was sitting here sticking his toe
in his mouth and I'm I'm what what are you doing?
He looks embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I look to.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah, three week class just to get him a taste
of it.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Ye think going back to it dropping at some point
if it works, you.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Know, it all depends because right now we have to
have our class size limit.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
That's why we're doing this. Yeah, that would be the
hard part is yeah. But yeah, well even if you
do this on a rotating basis and say, okay, the
people that attend this class can't come back and tell
the class after next and so you get a fresh
batch in and then you know, taking new ones rotate
(18:25):
the other's just say you can't do this, this one,
this one, this one, and this one.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
We can't do it. Drop in right now because we
need to know for sure, because we need the time.
My gosh, we're booked out for a month a dance.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Ye were in June.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Yeah, they're literally booked through May. We're not even May yet.
We're literally all our classes are.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Booked, and we have our list of people that if
an opening comes up, yeah, get me in.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Some booked, which is lovely, it's great. So we want
to throw something else in there for the people who
are waiting that.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
You don't want people to get so frustrated that they elsewhere. Yeah, right, right,
so this is just right now.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
It is like a just a three week class that
we could throw our different days of the week, so
people we can't do Mondays and we would throw it
on a Saturday. And this is three weeks, so kind
of it's easy just to pop in here and there.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
We've got a lot of people that want to do
a therapy dog class, but we don't really feel comfortable.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Well, you can't do therapy dog work right now. I
just found out last week that the facility bones has
been visiting for years, and then I've had three dogs
visiting this facility and it's not reopening. That's so sad
period period. The director called me the other day letting
me know that she was being transferred, and I said, well,
(19:43):
who's going to be a replacement? How do I get
you know when COVID lits up? And she says, this
facility and the one in Los Angeles are they're run
by the state and are being closed. The building's going
used for something else. All the personnel has been reassigned
and they will not be reopening. Man.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, I understand that there are some places in the
nation that are still doing visits, just not in our area.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
I think it'd be nice when they start so those
people need it.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah, they really need it. It's gonna be so important.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I guess around here they have been doing some outside
therapy visits.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
But that's pretty limited. Yeah, I mean it's hard to
do a therapy dog visit six feet away. You can
only do so many tricks and yeah, things like that. Yeah,
when what people really want to do is pet the dog.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Snug and huggle, hang on to the dog by the
fingers of the fur.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Yeah, every Wednesday. Bones bugged me for about five or
six months and then he gave up.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, it's a shame that they're closing that down.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, it was such a good program. So when all
of a sudden done, Bones and I'll probably be looking
for something different for him. It'll have to be with kids.
He just absolutely adored that. Not me so much.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
But that's just the weird part. Like kids, unless is like, okay,
you just stay over there.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Well, especially now, kids are germ factories. Oh I've had
two vaccines. But hey, you know, you guys are making
me sound bad anyway. So that's the plan. So if
you're going to training with another trainer, maybe talk to them,
have them listen to this podcast. Maybe they might want
to try something like this, or if you're a trainer
(21:28):
listening to it, think about your program because it sounds
like it could be great to keep dogs and owners
working and interested in having fun without repeating the same
thing over and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Even if you only do one game per class, sure
you know, to get people. I still love Tictac dog
on the ground.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
That's another one that gets compelled to. One team has.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
To do dog sit, one team has to do dog down.
And but it's a good way to practice along down.
Uh huh, and do it in an atmosphere of excitement
instead of everybody just standing around being very very quiet.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah. Well, the excitement makes for distractions for the dogs exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Oh yeah, then I don't have to work as hard
doing all the distractions.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Yeah, could you do a really good job? I do
try our advanced class just loves it or not? Well,
I think the students like it. The dogs have a
different opinion.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
When it comes to the next to the last class
for the Advanced. Just to let you know, I will
be showing up in my t Rex dinosaur.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Oh. I was going to ask if you had done that. Yeah,
I don't want to do.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
It on graduation because they're already stressed out. It's not
going to do it the week ahead of time.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Oh boy, So any students who are listening, I have
a cough. There was on one of our students.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
When Kate goes into her shed of things, the class goes, oh,
did I just start giggling. I'm like, yep, you don't
know what she's gonna come out with. And we had
remote control mouse this past one. I'd say rat, a
rat control rat.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
What else did you had that?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I had the little walking dog work walking marking dog
on a string.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Yeah, with the walking barking dog and the dogs were
doing If you brought out the ape I've been having.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Trouble getting it to connect with it's remote control, but
it is amazing when it is.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
There and the people and it really is an apeed.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
It really is.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Yeah, it's all sorts of noises and sounds.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Wow. We make really amazing toys.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Wow. That's the name of the company.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
So we had one student who I guess we're a
class she went to to do. She's doing something special
class we don't offer. The person there was trying to
do the distraction. So she's like they couldn't do it.
Person tried, it wasn't like you, and we'll let you go.
(24:07):
Have a good one.
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