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Final Ask-The-Trainer Facebook Session for the Month on Thursday Evening

Get your questions answered by professional dog trainers

EverythingDogBlog #121: Final Q/A Session for Dog People

Ask-the-Trainer: Thursday on Facebook!

What have you always wanted to ask a dog trainer? Here is your chance. Ask Thursday night in the comfort of your own home (or car)!

The first two sessions went swimmingly well with 7424 views last week and over 8000 during the first session.

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Does your dog jump up, dig in the backyard, bark when people ring the doorbell, beg during dinner, chew on your shoes? Are you having trouble housetraining your new puppy?  Does your dog not always know his name? Will he ‘sit’ only in the kitchen and only if you show him a treat? Is he ‘hard to walk’? If your dog is aggressive what can you do? What if he pulls and lunges on leash? And what about those crates, anyway?

Thursday night, you can ask professional dog trainers Mychelle Blake, president and CEO of the Association of Professional Dog Trainers (APDT), and Katenna Jones, MSc, Director of Educational Programs at APDT and author of Fetching the Perfect Dog Trainer: Getting the Best for You and Your Dog*. Katenna is also a certified dog trainer

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January is the APDT’s Train Your Dog Month (TYDM) and Thursday evening is the third-ever free Facebook chat, Ask the Trainer at 9 pm ET.

Read more about it: http://www.trainyourdogmonth.com/events/

*available at Dogwise.com (see my review here)

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