Katrina Sim

When you’re feeling overwhelmed with your dog, board and train programs can sound incredibly appealing. The idea of sending your dog somewhere to learn skills and then bringing them home with their issues “fixed” is understandably appealing. At Speaking Dog Is Ruff, we want to be very clear and respectful: we do not believe board and train programs are inherently bad, and we know there are skilled, ethical trainers who offer them. Our decision not to provide or generally recommend board and...

In every consult we do, we make time to talk about what we call “controversial subjects." In this section, we go over training tools,...

Speaking Dog Is Ruff's perspective: The term ethical dog breeder gets used a lot, but what does it really mean? The truth is, the...