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My last name is "Fine", and my training website/training related social media posts are all under the name "Finest Dog", so I figured it was a fitting title for a picture thread. I haven't ever really shared pictures of my gang here, and I recently got a hold of my old nice camera. Given it's the green season in NoCal (and possibly my last here), I'm trying to get back into taking pictures. As in everything else, my dogs are involved.
A little background: I go to school at Bergin Univeristy, where alongside academic classes focusing on dogs and a hands-on training class every semester, we train service-dog hopefuls out of their breeding program that live with us and roate every 6-8 months. I have 2 personal dogs of my own, a 2.5 year old Boston Terrier named Evie and an 11 month old field-bred Black Lab named Arlo. I am also training Arlo as my own service dog to assist with an anxiety disorder.
We spent about fourty-five minutes today gaggling around a field next to my apartment complex with the pups getting to run off-leash. Worked on some recall, some group (or technically, pair) stay exercises, and took the opportunity to take some pictures. It's the first week of winter break and I decided not to keep a Bergin dog over break and am enjoying just working with *my* dogs for a few weeks.
I really like this picture; I don't love the light or the focus, but I think the composition is cool with the tractor behind them and the angle of the shot:
Evie's beauty shots (I love her in this red sweater, she rocks red, pardon the dirty face):
Some group pics:
Arlo is really starting to look all grown up now. I'm planning to have a little celebration when he turns one in the new year. I'm really enjoying the maturing mind too. I'm not wild about adolescence, and it feels like all I've been doing since I started training dogs more seriously (when I first got Evie) is working with puppies and adolescents. All the dogs at school are under three, and the oldest dog I've personally worked with during that time was a year and some change. Add in that Evie hadn't even turned two when I got Arlo and... just young dogs on top of young dogs.
A little background: I go to school at Bergin Univeristy, where alongside academic classes focusing on dogs and a hands-on training class every semester, we train service-dog hopefuls out of their breeding program that live with us and roate every 6-8 months. I have 2 personal dogs of my own, a 2.5 year old Boston Terrier named Evie and an 11 month old field-bred Black Lab named Arlo. I am also training Arlo as my own service dog to assist with an anxiety disorder.
We spent about fourty-five minutes today gaggling around a field next to my apartment complex with the pups getting to run off-leash. Worked on some recall, some group (or technically, pair) stay exercises, and took the opportunity to take some pictures. It's the first week of winter break and I decided not to keep a Bergin dog over break and am enjoying just working with *my* dogs for a few weeks.
I really like this picture; I don't love the light or the focus, but I think the composition is cool with the tractor behind them and the angle of the shot:
Evie's beauty shots (I love her in this red sweater, she rocks red, pardon the dirty face):
Some group pics:
Arlo is really starting to look all grown up now. I'm planning to have a little celebration when he turns one in the new year. I'm really enjoying the maturing mind too. I'm not wild about adolescence, and it feels like all I've been doing since I started training dogs more seriously (when I first got Evie) is working with puppies and adolescents. All the dogs at school are under three, and the oldest dog I've personally worked with during that time was a year and some change. Add in that Evie hadn't even turned two when I got Arlo and... just young dogs on top of young dogs.