"Stop Barking, be quiet, shhh." Barking. It's a thing that most dogs do. If your dog doesn't bark, well, then you might want to skip this one. But for those of you with barking dogs, read on. So we have a saying at BrightDogs, we DO NOT chastise the bark, but we do encourage them to wrap it up. Immediately yelling at a dog to stop barking or growling isn't a good idea. Now I do realize that an excessive barker can drive you crazy, believe me, but this is how a dog commu

Many people ask why we do assessments. The answer is usually so that we can see the dog in our environment and see how they will do. We also take the opportunity to see how the dog like us as humans. This is obviously important since they will also be spending time with us as well. We take the time pet and talk to the dog. We do a full body touch test, which allows us to be sure that there are no areas of your dog that he/she doesn't like to be touched. This is key when

When you start a business you have expectations. You have a vision for what you want and you (usually) have a path to get there. Sometimes the best laid plans go awry. Sometimes you don't plan for what is happening but what you wanted to happen. This business we are in, the business of dogs, is an ever changing, ever evolving, breathing entity. Try as we might, we cannot always prepare for what each day will bring. I'm not going to lie, that makes it a very exciting and