Welcome to my new blog, Size Doesn't Matter! I am Sara Brueske, owner of Follow The Leader Training in Minnesota. Currently I teach dog obedience classes at On The Run Canine Center and Pet Nation Veterinary Care Center. I focus on positive reinforcement training and specifically utilize clicker training. I share my house with a very understanding husband, Tim, two dogs, Classic and Zuma, and two cats, Grover and Remi.
Classic is an almost 3 year old mantle Great Dane. I have learned more from him than any other dog I've owned and owe the majority of my understanding of canine behavior to him. He is human reactive and does not like interactions with people he doesn't know. These behavioral problems developed despite my best effort at socialization and early intervention. We have used Leslie McDevitt's exercises from her book Control Unleashed to ensure that he feels comfortable around strangers and we no longer have reactions in public. My goal for him is to reduce his anxiety around strangers enough to trial him in agility. Because there are so many unknown variables that exist while trialing (bar setters running to put up a dropped bar, judges wearing hats and sunglasses, photographers kneeling, etc) it has proven to be a difficult goal to obtain. However, he thoroughly enjoys his agility classes and as long as he is physically capable of playing agility, we will continue to work towards our goal.
Zuma is an almost 2 year old Border Collie mix that I adopted last summer when she was approximately 10 months old. She is exactly what I want in a dog and I hardly do anything without her. She comes to work with me everyday and demonstrates exercises in my training classes. She has recently started trialing in agility and is a rock star so far.
Grover and Remi are the two cats that share our household and I swear they are bent on destroying my life day by day. (Just kidding, kind of.) More on them later.
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