Blog Archive: December 2021
The dangers of an unregulated industry
On December 22, 2020 In Dog Training
The dog training industry is entirely unregulated. Anyone can decide to call themselves a dog trainer and charge as they please. While I usually would not call out another trainer, even if I disagree with them, but this particular case came to my attention as the “trainer” is using a MEAT SHREDDER on dogs as a punishment under the belief it
Ever wanted to know how or why CK9 started?
On December 15, 2020 In General Discussion
So I did a thing. I was a guest on the SquarePeg Podcast, if you’d like to get to know me, and the story of CapableK9s a little better have a listen!
https://podcasts.apple.com/.../the.../id1534436014...
Or here:
https://squarepeg.libsyn.com/2-s1-ep2-squarepeg-building...
I also did a little interview with Bonza Dog Treats that can found
Standardising Assistance Animal Legislation
On December 2, 2020 In Assistance Dogs
As there has been a rapid growth in the use of assistance animals over the last decade there has been a vocal minority who want there to be a centralised register of assistance animals and want legislation to replace the Disability Discrimination Act and other state based laws pertaining to assistance animals. This on the surface sounds like a
Taking your pet to the shops
I am member of several camping/travelling Facebook groups and this comes up on a regular basis. People who decide that for whatever reason they should/can take their pet in to the shops. I have made a Facebook post about this, but I wanted to go in to even more detail in this blog post about why this causes harm to the assistance dog community.