September 2010 finds Leinie posing in a new location. Do you know where he is? Follow Me Dog Training LLC encourages you go for a walk with your dog and find Leinie’s favorite spot this month.
Here’s the challenge; find where Leinie is posing, take your dog’s picture in the same spot, or as close as they can physically get. Send the picture and the exact location to renee@followmedogtraining.com. Please send your pictures as an attachment so I can post them!
The first picture I receive with a dog in the correct spot, will win a prize from Follow Me Dog Training LLC, have their dog’s picture posted on the blog and get bragging rights for a month.
The current month’s picture will always be on our Where’s Leinie? page!
Be safe and responsible, please pick up after your dog. Now go out and explore Richmond Virginia with your dog!
This challenge is open to anyone in the area, even non- Follow Me Dog Training LLC clients!
Posted 3 days, 8 hours ago at 10:50 pm. Add a comment
27 August 2010 from 7-10pm Art Works is presenting the opening night of Dog Days of Summer and …Hot Cats There is an Art show and silent auction going on to benefit the Richmond SPCA. Half of all the proceeds go to supporting homeless animals.
There is no admission fee and you can bring your pet!
If Follow Me Dog Training LLC isn’t out teaching lesson, we are going to try to go! So if you like art, and you want to take your dog to check out a juried all media show, and see what else is going on…head over to Art Works on the 27th of August!
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Special thanks from Follow Me Dog Training LLC to Bex Logistics for hosting us and providing some tickets for the group and their dogs! Bex Logistics is a local and regional trucking company that specializes in same day and route delivery. Even more important…Woody the black lab is owned by the Vice President!
See you all at the Ballpark!!!
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Have you ever thought of having your dog’s portrait taken? Frappy and I were out at Stony Point Fashion Park just recently and went into Wolfgang Jasper Photography to cool down and have a chat with Beth Jasper. She had a chance to meet Bendi the French Mastiff the other day and we wanted her to meet Sasha and Gerrard today.
During the month of August, Wolfgang Jasper Photography is running a special for THE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER. You can have a portrait made of your pet and at the same time support an animal charity of your choice.
Make your appointment for your very special pet in the month of August, and we will donate your half price session fee- $75 to the animal charity of your choice! In appreciation you will also receive a $200 credit towards your order of $400 or more. Special packages start at $450 ($700 value) and 20% discount on all wall portraits ( 16X20 and larger). Call 804.232.8028 soon to make your appointment- you’ll be glad you did! Limited number of sessions available. Some restrictions apply.
It is a very cool deal for a very cool idea. If you want more information, go out to Stony Point and check them out, the floor is cool for the dogs and they might even get a treat. You can see some of their work and get a better idea of what they do.
Here’s the challenge; find where Leinie is posing, take your dog’s picture in the same spot, or as close as they can physically get. Send the picture and the exact location to renee@followmedogtraining.com. Please send your pictures as an attachment so I can post them!
The first picture I receive with a dog in the correct spot, will win a prize from Follow Me Dog Training LLC, have their dog’s picture posted on the blog and get bragging rights for a month.
The current month’s picture will always be on our Where’s Leinie? page!
Be safe and responsible, please pick up after your dog. Now go out and explore Richmond Virginia with your dog!
This challenge is open to anyone in the area, even non- Follow Me Dog Training LLC clients!
Follow Me Dog Training LLC took a poll at the beginning of the summer to see what our clients and dogs wanted to do for group class during the “Dog Days Of Summer” in Richmond Virginia. Unanimously they all decided that lessons at the James River, teaching the dogs to swim, would be the best use of our time.
We’ve turned a few dogs into fish and seen some dogs grow more confident each week. It has been a wonderful class. Follow Me Dog Training LLC wants to thank everyone for coming to these group classes and having fun. Not every dog (including those Labradors) know how to swim. You’ll notice in the pictures, Darcy with a life vest on, and you’ll see me helping some of the dogs in the water with a leash, or holding on to them.
So some lessons learned during group class this July:
If they sneak attack, two Boxers (Grady Beans & Tyson) can dunk Renée
Ni’cko the husky, swims much like an alligator stalking the shoreline
It is important to realize how much water your dog has had to drink and that they may need to pee 10 times once you get home.
“Everyone to the right!” means move to the right and stop with your dog. Then wait while an unruly dog and it’s owners pass by a line of 15 dogs well behaved and sitting for their owners! That is a very cool sight!
The James River is constantly changing and the dogs need help finding rocks to stand on and to not go too far out because of the current.
Having the ability to have our dogs off leash and under control is one of the coolest things ever!
Because Renée had to be in the water most of the time, a good portion of the pictures were taken by clients. Thanks to those that shared all the cool pictures!
Be careful in the heat everyone! Keep your dogs cool and provide them plenty of shade, air conditioning and fresh cold water!
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Here’s the challenge; find where Leinie is posing, take your dog’s picture in the same spot, or as close as they can physically get. Send the picture and the exact location to renee@followmedogtraining.com. Please send your pictures as an attachment so I can post them!
The first picture I receive with a dog in the correct spot, will win a prize from Follow Me Dog Training LLC, have their dog’s picture posted on the blog and get bragging rights for a month.
The current month’s picture will always be on our Where’s Leinie? page!
Be safe and responsible, please pick up after your dog. Now go out and explore Richmond Virginia with your dog!
This challenge is open to anyone in the area, even non- Follow Me Dog Training LLC clients!
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago at 11:35 pm. Add a comment
Richmond Virginia history isn’t all about the Civil War! The Virginia Holocaust Museum is located on E. Cary st. There is parking available and walking your dog in the area is actually quite fun. There is a lot going on down town! Renée hasn’t had an opportunity to actually go inside the museum, but it is on her list of things to do, although she has a tendency to do things where her dogs are involved and dogs are not allowed in this museum.
Woody and his family also found Leinie, but were just beat out by Loki and Odin.
Looks like an educational and powerful place to visit during the summer months.
Today is another sad day for Follow Me Dog Training LLC. Today marks the passing of 15 yr old Irish Terrier, Scolaidhe’s Irish Maggie. If you have read the Meet the Trainer page on our website, it tells about an Irish Terrier that entered the Lamoureux household in 1995. This puppy, Maggie, was a catalyst in Renée’s dog training career.
Maggie was a pain in the butt puppy that needed training to turn into the amazing dog she was. Her puppy hood was tough and made me curious about why we just couldn’t get her to listen. She was the start of a conversation with an eye doctor that convinced me to look into training dogs. When I returned from my first dog training school (National K9 School for Dog Trainers), she was the first dog I trained in Maryland. She was the inspiration behind the logo for my first business, Pawsitive Obedience. Because of Maggie we went to our first St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Washington DC and were pulled into the parade with the other Irish Terriers…that was the parade where I met Pepper. She was a 10+ year veteran of therapy work, working with Pets On Wheels in Montgomery County MD, she visited an assisted living home every Tuesday, including Sept 11 2001.
Maggie, Pepper & Renée St. Patricks Day Parade 2003
Dogs don’t live long enough. They provide us with so much that I suppose they give all they can for the limited time they are with us and then pass us on to the dogs they have trained to take their place. I know that Maggie raced over the hill in the fields on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge and was greeted heartily by Pepper and the Lamoureux’s first Irish Terrier, Carrie.
When lessons are over and I sit down with Leinie and Frappy tonight, I’ll open a Guinness and say a toast to two red headed Irish girls. I’ll tell them why when you own an Irish Terrier, they make you either cry or laugh everyday, and I’ll tell them tales of Irish Terriers that no regular dog owner would ever believe. And then I’ll bury another Irish Terrier in my heart.
THE BEST PLACE TO BURY A DOG
“There is one best place to bury a dog. “If you bury him in this spot, he will come to you when you call – come to you over the grim, dim frontier of death, and down the well-remembered path, and to your side again.
“And though you call a dozen living dogs to heel, they shall not growl at him, nor resent his coming, for he belongs there.
“People may scoff at you, who see no lightest blade of grass bent by his footfall, who hear no whimper, people who may never really have had a dog. Smile at them, for you shall know something that is hidden from them, and which is well worth the knowing.
“The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.”
— Ben Hur Lampman — from the Portland Oregonian Sept. 11, 1925
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago at 4:56 pm. 1 comment
Here’s the challenge; find where Leinie is posing, take your dog’s picture in the same spot, or as close as they can physically get. Send the picture and the exact location to renee@followmedogtraining.com. Please send your pictures as an attachment so I can post them!
The first picture I receive with a dog in the correct spot, will win a prize from Follow Me Dog Training LLC, have their dog’s picture posted on the blog and get bragging rights for a month.
The current month’s picture will always be on our Where’s Leinie? page!
Be safe and responsible, please pick up after your dog. Now go out and explore Richmond Virginia with your dog!
This challenge is open to anyone in the area, even non- Follow Me Dog Training LLC clients!
