We recently trained a German Shepherd named “Apollo” for a client in Huntersville, NC. Apollo attended our three week advanced training course to teach him off-leash obedience and to also instill some manners. We enjoy getting updates and emails from dog owners and we thought that we would share this one with you.

Hi Erin and Jason!

Just wanted to give you a follow up on Apollo. He has been home now for almost four weeks and boy have things changed around here! Prior to coming to your boot camp, we had to deal with the relationship between him and our Australian shepherd, our two cats, and of course the whole family. Now, we can get moments like this because everyone is relaxed around each other AND our little female cat who hid from him for the first three weeks he came to us, now rolls on her back under his nose and bops him on the nose if he is behaving inappropriately!

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Seems that PETA is coming down on the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary for recuperating the Michael Vick dogs, the brutalized victims of his dogfighting ring. These people (at PETA) never cease to amaze me. If anything, they are jealous because of the money and recognition tied to these dogs that they didn’t get. 

Anyways, read this great article in the New York Times that their Sports Writer, William C. Rhoden, wrote about the differences between PETA and Best Friends Animal Sanctuary:

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Baby is in a contest for Bissell, and the grand prize is a $10,000 donation to an pet charity of her choice. She is going to pick Best Friends if she wins. Her cute little mug would also be on the box of their pet hair vacuum, but she is most excited about winning money for her favorite charity.

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A whole nation looked on as a ragged group of Pit Bulls was rescued from Michael Vick’s southeastern Virginia “compound” last year.  The dogs had been mutilated, neglected, beaten and bloodied all at the hands of one of the gnarliest dog fighting rings ever broken up.

And a whole nation is looking on now as the little sweeties are rehabilitated, learning to love and indeed working towards becoming “man’s best friend.”

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