Why Puppy Culture? What is Puppy Culture? What will Puppy Culture do for me if I purchase a puppy from MnJ? 

These are some of the questions we are getting and I’d like to address them here in a blog for our clients and potential clients.  

Puppy Culture was put together by Jane Messineo Lindquist and we think it is brilliantly well done.  Here is a link to their website https://shoppuppyculture.com/ and here is a link to the Facebook discussion group  https://www.facebook.com/groups/383694245140783/  We cannot urge you enough to visit both and see what you think.  We are testing a litter by sending home a voucher for a free copy of the Puppy Culture video and will be looking for feedback from our buyers.  We expect to implement this with every puppy going forward. 

The first point I want to emphasize on why Puppy Culture is that we now have a way to provide something that is so well done making it easy to follow and allows families to be absolutely consistent with how we have already started teaching your puppy.  You will be able to use the exact same techniques we used to teach literally any behavior you want.  Best of all, the training is positive, reward based and very effective – we have been thrilled with the results so far – it’s made us both feel very excited about training more than ever. 

As you watch the video you will follow along with Jane as she shows you how she raises a litter from pregnancy through the first year of life with most of the emphasis on the first CRITICAL 12 WEEKS.  Jane does an excellent job of showing you how she does what she does and is very thorough in explaining how to achieve a CER (Conditioned Emotional Response) with clicker training and treating.  She breaks it down so that the owner understands it and literally anyone can do this! She also covers common pitfalls in training and why they happen as well as how to put training into segments a puppy can understand and do – often we put too many elements into what we think is something simple like walking on a leash for example which is a common cause of failure.

What we also are impressed with is all the other information she packs in that we think many owners will enjoy and benefit from. Training sessions are recommmended to be short and sweet with a thorough explanation of why so if you will carve out 6-7 minutes even every other day to do a little fun training with your dog, you will have a ROCKSTAR.  Who doesn’t envision owning a well behaved, social companion? So many dogs end up in shelters due to behaviors that could have been avoided with good groundwork and training and on the other hand, shelters rarely get in a dog or puppy with excellent manners.  

On a last note  – I think the general public is mostly unaware of just how much there is out there to go do with your dog that doesn’t require great skill but is a LOT OF FUN for both of you.  They think of organized dog events as negative in many aspects but that couldn’t be further from the truth so we ask you to PLEASE take a moment to look into evens like Rally, Obedience, Trick Dog, Barn Hunt, Lure Coursing, Fast Cats, and dock diving – I think there is a lot of people who would enjoy any of these as a fun hobby the whole family can enjoy and both you and your dog will have a great time of it.  The added benefit of these events is getting to meet other dog lovers – we’ve made such great friends who all have common interests.