by Karen | Nov 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
What does it take to raise a confident puppy? It’s not just about teaching sit, stay, and come. A confident puppy learns how to handle the world around them. That includes unfamiliar sounds, different surfaces, new environments, and everyday situations that we...
by Karen | Oct 29, 2026 | Uncategorized
What Are Connection Games, and Why Do They Matter? Connection games are structured activities that help dogs and people develop communication, trust, confidence, cooperation and useful skills through shared experiences. For dogs, these activities can improve...
by Karen | Oct 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
Quick answer: Dogs bark at the doorbell because they’ve learned it means someone is arriving, or something exciting is about to happen (like pizza delivery!). Halloween turns one ring into dozens, with strangers in costumes added. To reduce the barking, start weeks...
by Karen | Oct 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
Quick answer: To prepare your dog for Canadian Thanksgiving, practise calm door manners before the day, decide how greetings will happen, manage access to food and garbage, schedule exercise followed by real rest, and give your dog a quiet space when they’ve had...
by Karen | Oct 2, 2026 | Mentorship, Uncategorized
By the time I decided to leave the competition world and start training pet dogs, I’d spent nearly twenty years training my own Labrador Retrievers, earned numerous Field Trial Championship titles, and travelled extensively to compete and learn from some of the...
by Karen | Aug 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Every August 26, social media fills up with dog photos, bandanas, and “best day ever” captions. That’s fine — dogs deserve the attention. But according to Ontario dog trainer Karen Laws, National Dog Day is a good excuse to ask a better question: are...
