It was a lot of fun this past weekend doing my very last seminar for the open public in Cleveland Ohio. After 10 years of constant travel, and getting to see a good part of this country and other places as well, and getting to work with literally thousands of dogs, it is time now to channel those energys more into all of our students that have been doing so well, and into the police world which we have seen the high demand for. I will be doing police seminars still, and am looking into having more time to do that now, a long with our upcoming police K9 school on remote training. This will also give me a bit more time for our video series, that we get a constant flow of requests for. We actually did get to recently release the very first video of that series, which is teaching dogs to swim and is available though our online store. I remember the very first seminar that I did quite a while back at Pam Green’s in Tucson Arizona, that had about 50 people there, and actually had a few people that went on to open Sit Means Sit dog training businesses years later. I remember a lot of people telling me that the general public would never accept remote dog training, but in actuality, I never really did have much problem once we got in front of the people and they got to see my dog, and I had the chance to do a demonstration with their dog as well. The general public never argued the results for the most part, and how much easier it made their lives for themselves and their dogs. I knew right from the beginning that it was going to develop into a very big thing with the help of others, and we are still in our infancy stages. I wanted to personally thank all of the people over the years that stopped by to see our program, and will still get to see it through all of our locations that I have a huge hand in personally developing. It was fun with the humane society’s, Veterinarian schools, remote collar companies, and many, many other groups that pretty much kept me busy for a good 40 weekends a year for a while. I have some very fond memories of all the upgrades that we made over the years.
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