What a year it’s been! Thanks to all of my wonderful clients, I have had the amazing good fortune and opportunity to train nearly 100 Blaine County dogs and their owners since launching Rosy Rover Training last fall!
This October marked one solid year of instructing Puppy Passport Classes (and private trainings) focusing on socialization, fundamental obedience, and problem prevention for puppies.
The importance of socializing puppies (correct play, manners, different interactions with objects/people/dogs/noises/etc.), from ages 2-4 months, is critical to their becoming well-adjusted companions.
Besides ‘playing with puppies,’ I utilize Force-Free methods to teach basic obedience and manners to all ages of dogs, including many rescues who have received little to no training.
On the professional level, I finished up my Puppy Start Right Instructor classes. I also certified as a Service Dog Coach (a lifelong dream) after several intensive months of classes and service-animal task training. I am now coaching an amazing sheepadoodle-and-handler team who completed my puppy class last year, and continued on with mobility Assistance Animal training.
Dogs with their inherent ability and desire to learn continue to astonish me every single day.
After I began working with Ace, a newly adopted husky/border collie rescue puppy, last December, I soon realized he required new challenges to stay engaged in the training process. Once he learned basic obedience and manners, he continually challenged me to keep him interested. He loves to work and ‘needed’ a job!
This summer/fall, KPA Certified Professional Dog Trainer Elise Lufkin and I developed, launched, and co-instructed our brand-new class, Ace’s Jobs for Dogs Enrichment, to teach people how to engage with their dog via introductions into nose work, trick training, and agility. Ace’s Jobs for Dogs was developed essentially to help fulfill the needs of ‘working’ dogs through mental and physical needs and thereby enriching their lives and those of their handlers.
The biggest lesson that dogs have taught me is that life is extremely finite in the dog world. It is a daily reminder to enjoy each and every moment we have. The full life of a dog happens in about one-tenth of our human lifespans. From potty-training to adolescence (yes, dogs go through it like our teens!), to the many vet visits over the years, and finally saying our goodbyes, owning and loving a dog means emotions magnified: hundreds of heartaches—but countless moments of the purest joy!
Thank you again. I am delighted to continue fostering happy, healthy, harmonious partnerships between canines and their people in the Wood River Valley.
Sincerely,
Tamara Rowe
Certified Force and Fear-Free Professional Dog Trainer
KPA-CTP/SDC
Rosy Rover Training, LLC offers Puppy Passport Classes, Ace’s Jobs for Dogs Enrichment, and Custom/Private Training
For more information, please contact: tamara@rosyrovertraining.com or call: 970-424-7799
www.rosyrovertraining.com