The Joy of Puppies

Written By Jennifer Masters, MA, MS, RVT, KPA CTP
The Clever Puppy The Clever Dog School

Puppies are such a joy!!!!

The Clever Puppy is a joyful puppy. The Clever Dog School

The enthusiastic wags of their tails. Their precious little happy pants. The sweet milky smell of their breath. The softness of their puppy fuzz.

Oh, what wonderful potential each little puppy holds in all their joyfulness! 

The potential for a wonderful companion to share your evening walks with. The exciting potential for an adventure buddy as you tackle your life list of trails to hike together. The engaging partner during training sessions where you both learn to communicate together as a team. The daily training sessions that help cement a life-long rock solid relationship together. The relationship of your dreams. The play sessions of fetch in the backyard. The games of ‘find it’ in the house on a rainy day. And after all the training, games, and adventures are done for the day, the potential of a companion to snuggle with on the couch as you relax and unwind together at the end of a long day. 

Enjoy all the puppyness your puppy brings into your life! This time is so short. It will seem in the beginning that it will never end, but then after a couple of blinks of the eye this life stage will be gone. Please make sure to take lots and lots of photographs and videos!!

Joyful Golden Retriever Puppy. The Clever Dog School

With all the joy and potential a puppy brings to your life, puppies also bring work. The amount and quality of work you put into your time with your puppy will equal the rewards you get out of it as they grow from the puppy of your dreams into the dog of your dreams. 

A Clever German Wirehaired Pointer puppy. The Clever Dog School

Embrace the time of puppyhood, including the work! It is in the work that the relationship develops.

There is the work of potty training. And crate training.

The work of teaching foundations behaviors-this is how you will learn to communicate together and how your puppy will learn to live in a human world with you. 

The work of giving to your puppy as much, if not more, than your puppy gives to you!! Providing opportunities to enrich your puppy’s life; physically, environmentally, and psychologically. The more you put into the relationship the more enriched your puppy’s life will be. And the true genius of puppies is that as you do things to make your puppy’s world better, your own world will become better, also. 

What clever little creatures these precious puppies are!! 

I would be honored to help you and your puppy learn to be clever together! Contact me today so you and your puppy can begin your training journey together! 

Clever boy and clever Brussels Griffon puppy. The clever dog school
Jennifer Masters, MA, MS, RVT, KPA CTP

I LOVE DOGS!!!

Dogs leave me in awe constantly. The dog-human connection fascinates me. Training with dogs lights me up inside! There is no better connection in life than that between a dog and their person in sync. Teaching others to train with their dogs is an honor. Watching the person open up to seeing the potential in their dog is the purpose.

I have committed my life to dogs. I study dogs through self-directed learning and through formal educational programs.

I have attended three schools for dog trainers and completed numerous continuing education opportunities about dog training and behavior over the years.

I have been a credentialed veterinary technician for over 23 years.

I completed a BS in Business Administration with the sole focus of opening a dog training business.

I completed a MA in Applied Psychology to be able to better help the human side of the leash!

I recently completed an MS in Adult Learning and Leadership to learn how to create dog training programs and curriculum that benefit not only the dog, but their humans, also!

My commitment to dogs and their people is that I will continue to increase my knowledgebase so I can provide them with access to the best dog training and behavior education possible. I will also share my own perspective on dogs and the lives we share with them.

Above all else, my best teachers have been dogs, mine and others. I have learned so much while training with dogs. How to focus and give my full attention to another as the dog gives theirs back, that is the essence of the dog-human connection. When two beings are training together and communication is flowing subtly, there is true magic in those moments. Also, in the day to day of our life together when time seems to stand still I become open to the lessons they have to teach. Lessons of how to listen to others and how to just be together. Our relationships with our dogs is about togetherness, whether training with our dogs or about simply being with our dogs. Our time together might be fleeting, but it is oh so precious. Dogs taught me these things and so much more. I am filled with so much gratitude for dogs and the lessons they so willing offer to teach me.

I hope you join me on learning about and with dogs!

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