GM News - May 2020

Gentle Modern School of Dog Training (GMSDT) News - May 2020

The purpose of this Newsletter is to share with you, our GMSDT community, excellent information on dogs and dog-care, and info about ways you and your dogs can continue to work with us.

GMSDT has launched a YouTube Channel!

Our goal is for this Channel to showcase easy and fun methods of enriching your dog's life:

Training exercises
Product reviews
DIY ideas

Examples of our videos:

What would you like to see on the Channel? Let us know.

We've updated our website with additional information for you.

Newly added guides in Resources - Our Articles:
Guide for this time of COVID-19
Socialisation Deep Dive
Backyard Agility
Digging Dog? Try this
Vetting Online Resources - Tips

Heidelberg Leader journalist, Richard Pearce, recently interviewed Amanda regarding opportunities and challenges for dog-care during COVID-19 isolation. George Salpigtidis then took photos of Rodna with her dogs, Buddy and Pippa, to accompany the article.
The full article may be found at https://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/east/gentle-modern-school-of-dog-training-shows-you-how-to-train-your-dog-in-isolation/news-story/c8f51217595d1191bb84d16358bd3779
(Full text available to Herald Sun digital subscribers)

Top Tip

Does interactive play tire your dog? Spend playing ten minutes of tug-of-war before a Zoom meeting and have him sleep at your feet for the duration of the meeting.

Dog Pics + Book Giveaway

We're sure that if you're working from home you've been taking a higher number of photos than normal of your dog. We'd love to see them! Please post a special pic of your dog on the GMSDT Facebook page.

As an incentive to share, once a week for the month of May, we'll randomly select one of the dog photos posted and send that family a copy of Dog Problems: The Gentle Modern Cure (if you already have a copy of that book, we'll send the winner a copy of Dog Training: The Gentle Modern Methodinstead).

Here's a photo of Amanda's dog, Tiger.

Ted’s Cameras Top 5 Pet Photography Tips are available in a text version and video version.

Free 15 minutes check-in via Zoom or Facetime with Amanda.

What's been going on during Isolation? Contact Amanda (amanda@jenkins.net, 0418 371 060) and schedule a free 15 minutes check-in via Zoom or Facetime. We're here to help.

We hope you and your two-legged and four-legged family members are well :-)