City Dog Training, LLC

I opened up the napkin drawer this evening and realized with a pang that I no longer needed the plastic cutlery I had piled in a container in the back. My kids are in high school now. No more will I assemble just-so peanut butter sandwiches. No more lunchboxes, baggies, mini containers of fruit and [...]

I turned 50 this year, and my dogs didn’t even get up with me when I woke early to be depressed on my birthday.
While it could be argued that I have very few real reasons to be depressed – good life, great kids, still working in a recession [...]

My neighbor Nora came over last week to prepare some ready-made food for the lazy days of summer and maybe pick up a few cooking tips along the way. Nora is a funny, smart, kind and engaging friend, whose primary flaw seems to be that she possesses not one knife skill that might prove helpful [...]

Today I learned that my dog, my friend, my companion, has cancer.
It’s a “good” cancer, Mast cell, and this can frequently be managed by removal of the lumps, and sometimes some additional chemo and/or radiation therapy. She has not yet been biopsied, and so we don’t know if it’s low or high grade, and much [...]

Your Honor:
Several years ago I became interested in a breed of dog known as Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs. They are bred for pulling, carting and plowing, and I knew that a little extra effort would be needed to train loose leash walking. From the very first day I had them I worked on that slack [...]