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Rose's Adventures in dog training

A first post 🙂

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Hello! This is my first post on fieldnotes.dog.

You probably don’t know me, but on the off chance you do you may know me from:

Now I’m here. I want this to be a place where I talk about dog stuff.

Not as a professional giving advice, but as a novice sharing adventures.

I plan to share photos, videos, and small talk about things I’ve been up to with my dog (or dogs maybe but just singular for now).

A bit to know about me:

  • I have lived with 6 dogs in my lifetime, but the first 5 were family dogs from when I was a kid.
  • My first dog that was fully mine as an adult was Betsy. I owned her for 12 years and she was just so wonderful. I blogged about her a lot as well, on tumblr, right from the moment we brought her home.
  • We had a lot of fun together. And we explored a lot of different dog sports/hobbies like agility, nosework, tricks, and advanced obedience. When she died, a piece of me died with her. But I also know that this is part of owning a dog. The day I brought her home I knew that painful day would eventually come, as we all do when we bring home a dog.
  • I’ve always been very drawn to the dog world, but I also have a full time job and kids and other interests and am not able to devote 10000% of my energy to dog ownership like some people do.

The current situation:

  • I have two school aged kids
  • I work full time
  • We are bringing home a puppy on April 10th. (that’s in 13 days)
  • The last time I raised a puppy was 12 years ago and I had way less going in my life than I do this time.
  • We are getting ready!!

Other blogs and dog stuff I consume I’ve been obsessively reading & listening to dog content since I first brought home Betsy. Some of the people I follow -

I like to try and stick with positive only training as much as I can. But I’m also interested in following other schools of thought because I think it’s useful to understand and learn from experts in the field even if not all of their techniques resonate with you personally.