Why I do what I do

I was doing exactly what made me happy as I drove away from a clients house after a dog training session. I was helping someone with their dogs and in turn helping them with their own personal life. This client has three ratchi puppies at home plus the sire and dame. She lives alone, but has many outside influences in her life that are stressful on her. She works at a fast food restaurant to pay for culinary school and the hours are not great. Her financial stability is a steady, steep slope in the downward position. To top it off, six puppies were born to her female rat terrier. Being the kind of person that she was, my client was not about to just give the puppies away to the first person to show an interest on craigslist. Nor was she willing to pass them off to a shelter. She took extra time, money and effort out of her already busy, stressful life to take care of all the puppies proper.

I've been giving her training tips since the puppies were old enough to start obedience training. She appreciated the tips and we even met in person several times to go over, in detail, how to give her dogs "The Good Dog Way of Life." But after only being able to re-home three of the puppies she was starting to get worn out. I met with her the beginning of this week as I was going to be leaving town for a while and wanted to give her a final lesson. Little did I know, I would be sitting down with her, scheduling her day to incorporate the puppies schedule, re-arranging her house to better fit the puppies needs and in turn giving her a more relaxing, stress free atmosphere.

Three hours later, as I drove away from what was suppose to be an hour class, I felt really good about what had happened. I taught my client about the importance of not only being the alpha dog of your pack, but also the alpha dog of your own life and home. Twenty minutes later she text me to say that the dogs were quiet and obedient and she was so thankful!

It was then that I KNEW I was doing exactly what I should be doing and I was counting my blessings that my business was growing and I was able to help others with their dogs at a low cost.