Review of Disney’s “Pets” Documentary
Pets is an adorable documentary celebrating the human-animal bond, currently available on Disney+. The documentary features adorable kids who talk about pets, interspersed with stories of adults and how their…
Introducing Novel Situations
Most of the work for this section is already done. Every time you have presented a new object to your dog, you’ve helped them realize new things can be fun.…
Groom Training: The Kennel
We’ve already talked about kennel training your pet on this blog because it is such an important task to complete. If you do not kennel train your dog, they are…
Desensitizing Your Dog to Tile Floors
Happily for your chihuahua, this is one section of our groom training course they probably don’t strictly need. Chihuahuas are usually carried everywhere in the groom shop, owing to their…
Are Kennel Dryers Safe?
This course is aimed primarily at training your dog to be comfortable in the grooming environment, but here and there we need to stray from this to discuss safety. Kennel…
Blow Dryer Desensitization: Wind
The final aspect of the dryer most dogs dislike is the actual feeling of the wind blowing on them. Remember how Rocco would run away any time the heater clicked…
How to Desensitize the Sound of a Dryer
As you may have guessed from desensitizing your dog to water, the next step will be desensitizing the sound of the dryer. This is one situation where even if you…
Desensitization to Dryers
The most common blow dryer in the grooming world by far is the velocity dryer. This is because some groomers don’t keep kennel dryers at all due to the inherent…
Let’s Talk Dryers
When Rocco was a wee puppy, there was nothing that could send him running for the hills like the sound of the heater turning on. It was terrifying. It was…
