Introducing the pack that inspired Lady and the Leash K9 Training
Tango
The Qatari Prince
After losing my first dog, my husband and I started looking for a second dog to add to our home again. A friend through Puppy Rescue Mission posted about a litter of puppies in Qatar needing homes and we fell in love with Tango. He came to us March 2017 at 4 months old. He was my very first puppy and learning all that there is with bringing in a puppy. He taught me how important structure and consistency are when teaching a dog basic obedience. He is also my tester dog with clients since I know I can count on him to be calm and patient with a dog who may be anxious around new people and dogs.
Athena
My Social Butterfly
Athena came to us after she was found abandoned on Fort Bragg, NC and the family that found her wasn’t able to keep her. She was a great, social, playful, although very anxious, puppy when we first got her. After losing her big brother and gaining a pesky little brother, her resource guarding started to show and she put Tango in the ER as a result. She was the reason for me getting the help of a professional and she is the reason I found Natural Dog Training, a method of training I instantly fell in love with. Athena excels at it and makes it so easy to go through the core exercises and she makes a great dog to use for examples on what each exercise should look like.
Brinn
The Gremlin
Brinn was adopted from the Saratoga Animal Shelter in 2016. My husband and I brought her home thinking it would be an easy transition with Athena and my former American Bulldog, Rocco. It was not an easy transition! But. She helped me learn how to introduce dogs and cats and made it possible for me to help others bringing home a new dog or cat work through similar adjustment periods. She has also helped me cat test the Regional dogs so we can say with more certainty that a dog could safely live with a cat or not.
Benny
My Foster Failure
Benny came to us as a foster in February 2020 after doing 6 weeks at a board and train when his original owner decided to rehome him. Benny was born in Kuwait and Puppy Rescue Mission brought him and his litter over when they were 4 months old. After proving to be too much for his family and biting the kids and mom a few times, they decided it was best to rehome him. PRM helped by funding training and then he came to me as a foster. His dashing good looks made him deceiving and everyone who applied for him expected that they would be getting a golden retriever. They would not be. Benny struggles very much with meeting new people and even after almost a year, he still has no human friends outside me and my husband. After coming to the realization that I did not feel he was safely adoptable, we decided to formally adopt him in June 2020. He is, by far, my most difficult dog but, we are working through the challenges and he has been showing me, ever so slightly, that my hard work is paying off.
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