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Puppy Training and Show Dog Handler Training

April 1, 2013/0 Comments/in Success Stories /by Jim Burwell

Puppy training for Oscar, the soft coated Wheaton. Oscar, who belongs to Dominique Sachse, is also learning to be a show dog and his handler needed a little help with having him listen in the ring.

Puppy Play Should be Playful not Painful

August 30, 2012/9 Comments/in Puppies /by Jim Burwell

It goes without saying that when you get your cute new puppy, engaging in puppy play should be playful, not painful. But that’s not always the case. Many new puppy owners and their children are sorely disappointed when their new puppy begins to literally bite the hand that feeds it. Recently a new puppy owner […]

If Your Puppy Could Talk, What Would He Tell You He Needs?

April 12, 2012/0 Comments/in Puppies /by Jim Burwell

“If your puppy could talk, what would he tell you he needs?” is the question I ask many new puppy owners. I like to see how the answers differ. Puppies need love and affection they say. And most do say love and affection first. Others may follow up with some things they would want me […]

Puppy Training: From Chaos to Calm

February 23, 2012/2 Comments/in Puppies /by Jim Burwell

When I do puppy training I don’t expect to find a family in total chaos. But this puppy family was different. The proud but frustrated owners of Maddie, the French Bull Dog puppy were stressed beyond belief in their puppy training efforts. Their troubles, on our lesson day, started right before I arrived. As I […]

Puppy Training: Stressing Stay-at-Home Moms

January 26, 2012/2 Comments/in Puppies /by Jim Burwell

“Training our new puppy makes me feel hopelessly stressed.” These exact feelings were expressed to me with three different stay-at-home moms on the first puppy lesson – all in the last 2 weeks. “I feel guilty putting my puppy in the crate when I’m home all day.” Each one was stressed to the max cleaning […]

Video Review: Puppy Training for Scout

January 11, 2012/0 Comments/in Success Stories /by Jim Burwell

Scout is a 4 month old puppy who needed help with: dog obedience training, learning to settle, not chasing the cat, walking well on leash and learning to go up and down stairs. After 3 in home dog training lessons in Houston, Scout is not afraid of the stairs, she settles down well and […]

Video Review: Puppy training and 3 kids

August 6, 2011/0 Comments/in Success Stories /by Jim Burwell

When we got our puppy on July 4th, my wife said she lost her independence. Working with Jim Burwell gave us our independence back.

Stop My Puppy From Biting

February 15, 2011/0 Comments/in Success Stories /by Leila Martin

This is Marion and Thomas. We have Maya, a Goldendoodle puppy (5 months). Even though the cutest dog in the world Maya’s behavior clearly needed some adjustments. We called Jim Burwell and asked for help. Jim came to our home and gave us simple, specific and extremely logical advice on how to train our puppy. […]

Review: Puppy biting, puppy nipping, puppy pooping

December 8, 2010/0 Comments/in Success Stories /by Leila Martin

Hi my name is Mary Lostak and we have a 4 month old Australian Shepherd puppy named Sadie. We called Jim to have him help us with Sadie. She was biting, not walking on the leash nicely, issues with potty training. Just general bad puppy behavior, normal puppy behavior and Jim helped us kind of […]

Review: Puppy training and being overwhelmed

November 16, 2010/1 Comment/in Success Stories /by Leila Martin

Thanks to Jim I learned there is still time for life with a puppy! I was feeling very overwhelmed by this little puppy we brought home and after just the first visit Jim taught me how to schedule-crate time, play time, training time and sleep time. I can’t believe how much more comfortable she is […]