How Unleashed Potential Can Help You- A look at our Lifetime Group Class After The Private Dog Training Lessons. We offer private training sessions, or a board and train, followed by group classes for life. This allows you and your dog to learn in a calm, quiet environment while having all the focus and attention on you. Once private training is complete, you can attend weekly group classes, like the one in this video, for the rest of your dog's life. This means you will have a … [Read more...] about Lifetime Group Class
Camellia Saunderson
Out of Control Lab, Ginger- Testimonial
Thank You Unleashed Potential The Valley!! Ginger the lab is out of control no more! See Video Below! A few months after getting our lab/retriever, Ginger, daily life started to become stressful. The kids didn't want to play with the her because she would bite at them and knock them over, and my husband refused to walk her anymore because she pulled so hard on the leash even an anti pull harness didn't work. Ginger was relentlessly; she went after anything that moved, cat,s birds, leaves … [Read more...] about Out of Control Lab, Ginger- Testimonial
Stress and Your Dog in Training
I have read a lot of commentary on stress during dog training; the short version is that there are people out there who don't believe that a dog should be stressed out for training to be effective or humane, and that stress will damage the relationship between human and canine. While I agree that stress indicators such as panting, yawning, and stretching should be carefully considered during training, I completely disagree that they should always be avoided. If your dog never feels stressed, … [Read more...] about Stress and Your Dog in Training
Children’s Bite Prevention Seminars
Children's Bite Prevention Seminar with Professional Dog Trainer, Camellia Saunderson, and Buddy the tripod Dogs are largely misunderstood by humans, especially children. To a dog, biting is a normal way of communicating when nothing else has worked. Too often we hear that a dog has bitten a person 'out of nowhere,' when more often than not, we have simply failed to read the dog's signs of discomfort before it happened. Our children's bite prevention seminars focus on fun, … [Read more...] about Children’s Bite Prevention Seminars
Adventures in Reactive Dog Encounters Part 1
Introduction: The purpose of this blog series is not to judge, but to educate! I learned long ago that most reactive dog owners do not always appreciate a stranger in passing giving them reactive dog advice about their loved ones. More often than not, people tend to take it personally when you point out their dog's flaws, rather than as a gesture of good will. These days, I wait for people to come to me before I offer my thoughts and advice, but with the wonderful world of the anonymous web, … [Read more...] about Adventures in Reactive Dog Encounters Part 1