we attend the seventy fourth two thousand and twelve seattle kennel club one hundred thirty second and one hundred thirty third dog shows once again we are at the seattle kennel club dog show here never know what you're going to come across as you w on about thirty five seconds and they're getting set up for some other go take a break and check out some other things going on here so know one of the bigger just sort of checking things out relax he likes to be up there like cats like like that just say you can check out all kinds of free here at the dog show and if you're ever interested in learning about it might get along with your family this is a great place to do so to they are they related difference almost identical to each other differently i see the little different but it takes a moment to really see the difference just looking at them they almost look identical ok well we'll check out some more dark then the english setters are getting ready to take off dress with enough most are going to be friendly some more kid friendly than others but it's a matter of how you train the dog because even if the nicest dog in the world here because we want to get the word out about the shelter and how we have dogs for adoption cats critters and also to promote spain neutering and fostering dogs and cats and critters a lot of people are don't realize what they need to do is think well in terms of what we have to offer at the shelter we have many more things than just having dogs to adopt we have all these other types of animals that we adopt and we also  encourage people to volunteer if they want to volunteer or foster and since they feel like they can make the complete commitment to adopt yet they can foster animals of all types and this is rocky i adopted rocky from the shelter three and half years so one of the first things you need to do is we're going to have a you got your guard is probably to train it a little bit with me i have one of the owners of the facility of family dog of what's expected of them to get along with the family to get along in today's society it gives them jobs to do it makes him feel more valuable and more for you know our dogs were bred to do something for a living and training is their little bit of living but it also just really develops a great reporter relationship between the dog and whether it's the some of the minimum things their owner should train their dogs ok in addition to housebreaking and you know that sort of thing i would recommend walking nicely on a leash sitting beside them when they stop walking because dog's life some day and then applying that inside the house in a way that works with your lifestyle so for example we teach our clients to have their dogs sit at the doorway sit when people come to the house to visit ask to do a sit for greedy and those things just are are so valuable i see your trainer their color working with the little dog there that's quincy the cor there's a time and a place for everything so you know dogs are capable of vocabulary so six hundred words is pretty much what science is said and we teach the dogs in our vocabulary let's go means walk beside my leg stop and sit when i tell you it's ok to be a dog you can be out in front of me just don't pull really hard on the leash it's all about just teaching the dog what you want so for some of the performance sports that we do like agility musical freestyle the dogs are actually taught the positions of being on our left side right side in front of us and behind us so we just have to have a clear vocabulary with the dogs it depends on whether or not it's appropriate because i see a lot of different things from different folks and obviously some of them are trained very well right and then you have people who know that there's generally a greeting card for the first time and things like that but there's a lot of people who violate that just because they have a little bit of what it is right right i think most of what you're talking about is simply due to the owners don't understand the benefits and really how easy it is to change things around and it'll help them in all aspects with their dogs you know there's a small percentage of people who say well i don't really care what my dog does but they forget the impact that that house on the other people and the way it represents us as dog owners in general and of course your dog is a reflection of how you tr trainer and so we get people who come to our classes and they've been told by these so called professionals some of the strangest things in the world and just because somebody hangs out a shingle does remain know what they're doing or they have a track record what's the weirdest thing you've heard somebody be told by a simple dog gene just that any behavior they want the dog to do is ok i mean that that you shouldn't put limits on the dog that's one of the strangest things and then the other thing is that dogs are not that smart so you have to dumb everything down for them and that makes no sense or we also get a lot of we do it's family dog online dot com and our phone number is two five three eight five four nine six six three three i'll be happy to answer any and all question you they can e mail us or a website and we're happy we have articles you're kind of caught my attention and one of the creators of it is this woman if you are tricia christensen doesn't she is a line of high functioning scuse me it's functional sportswear for the for like an athlete and it's a very unique product we've been around since two thousand tidy it's for for those couch potatoes it's for athletes and dogs who are want to be athletes it's for aging dogs it helps increase the s we are from the u s all the way down to the label constant chatter and it has all sorts of features that not only massage out the fur but grooming and massaging elements i call this the armpit scratch or this part this is the rear end scratcher this part here is the deep tissue massage or so you can massage your dog but it works really well you know on small dogs is that you rake your dog like this in a massage out the undercoat it's like thirteen fingers being dragged across the back your dog and they like it because it feels good to then the fall out in the birds will pick it up and use it to make now what's really nice with the long handle one which we have over here you get the leverage you need to work the fur under coat out through the one works better on a horse because you want to have one hand on the horse and be grooming it with the other so you're combining not only the tactile sensation of knowing what the horse is feeling but using the frizzy just scratch where they can't scratch  leverage to get down and get that undercut work through but if you have a smaller dog or a greyhound for instance it really has a fine job so very little undercoat this is more for scratching so the short one is more or less a tactile with the animal meaning it will work and do the same job as long in the one but just on a different scale but as you say now i know from experience with my friend's little dog just a few minutes ago that closer but again we've used this on all sorts of dogs and i'd say about ninety percent of dog breeds like it is the temper scent that you know just don't like it and you know so much i can do with that but we've used it on two hours like this guy right here so i was like a big dog trapped in a small dog's body they have a big attitude a lot of pugs are the same way they have a big attitude and it's all really dependent upon the dog and in their personality we've done a lot of dog rescue events where some dogs are at the rescue events of even abuse and this one particular dog up there that they were tell me oh don't go next to a dog with a stick because it had been abused well it took me about thirty seconds of gradually introducing it to the dog scratching it with my own hand far right the far upper right one and eventually after about thirty seconds i hit the dog sweet spot i call it and it totally understood and felt comfortable on one you know very it's actually manufactured here in washington state yes i was getting you sound business journal and there was an article in there two weeks ago about a local company called cashmere on there and wouldn't bill i'm going to be talking with them this week about bringing my tool from wisconsin to washington state and on top of that also i was talking with the owners of the go to car ok car the for disabled dogs and they have a manufacturing facility that they're setting up also and with distribution parents who are interested in caring for animals promoting quality of life until the end of life now when i think of hospice i think of kind of a residential place for people to go to but that's not one and provides them with sticks here and support nurturing so that they're better able to let go when the time comes how did you come up  and in the process of doing that became extremely bonded and very involved with their care and identity for me to be the caregiver and in order to really follow his decline i needed to do more things change my way of thinking make modifications to my home environment and also to help people around me to help my my dog and so when the time came he just basically had a gentle decline that i and i was ready to say goodbye and my family was in the home and we were all surrounding him with work and support and he could drift off to sleep on it's all about pain management and that's what we want to do right prevent suffering and pain and we definitely focus on pain management and we embrace the idea amy told the story of how now she came to one of our events with a lot of questions need a lot of support got some support but then i heard that from her a couple of months later and by that time she really did reach out and needed the help because they felt like they were in a place where they were potentially looking at euthanasia because they couldn't have a nurturing environment healthy environment for him at home definitely could give them the time they needed to to invite him back into the home and that's what he's doing now looks great family as it had the rest that they  specialist and i met him back in pennsylvania and you do see a racially designed the first course in the sixty's and then when we got married i ran the factory hospital and then i realized it was a great of things i notice is that they're very lightwe know this one obviously is set up for a little bit more than just the back legs being a problem ok well thank you very much for your time you're welcome thank you we'll take a look at more and of course you can't have a dog show without actually having a dog competition learned more about the upcoming jila the trials in auburn maine eighteen one thousand and twenty two thousand and twelve or the one hundred thirty fourth and one hundred thirty fifth doug 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