• Are You a good match with your dog? Not every dog is the right dog for every home. Take the American Kennel Club's short survey to find the right breed for You. 

• Is your dog spayed/ neutered?  Intact animals, especially between late puppyhood and mid-adult age, are interested in reproducing, not learning calm, confident obedience.

• Is your dog up-to-date on all appropriate vaccinations? Keeping dogs UTD on vacc is the #1 method of preventing transmittable canine diseases. 

• Is your dog in good health? Free from current injury or disease? Unlike humans, dogs consider poor health a weakness/ vulnerability. To compensate (self preservation), dogs will exhibit overtly territorial behavior. This behavior is typically mistaken for "aggression".

• Is your dog provided healthy food and clean water? Just like us humans, dogs are what they eat. Providing a controlled healthy diet and a constant source of clean water  is to align them with the fuel they need to be obedient, calm, care-free.

• Is your dog kept at a healthy weight and exercised regularly? Paired with a healthy diet, proper weight and exercise assures our dog vitality and long life and the confidence needed to be obedient social calm and well-rounded.

• (For the multiple-dog home) Is equality practiced in the home? Dogs, a naturally competitive species, can be wrongly set up to fail in a home that demonstrates favoritism or other dynamic that promotes a competitive environment. Put a dog in a position that it feels it needs to compete... it will. 

• Is your dog provided a stable, calm living environment? Dogs tend to mimic / react to their environment...especially calm and quiet. Dogs also thrive within routine. Providing both sets a dog up for success when we ask for calm and stable behavior from them.

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