PIT BULL TRAINER’S NEW WEBSITE: www.WoofsnWagsDogTraining.com

WoofsnWagsDogTraining.com provides information about Pit Bull training as well as information on how to contact me here in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area to train your Pit Bull or other dog.  I am a Certified Animal Behaviorist and graduate of the Animal Behavior College in California, USA.

I’ve loved and raised dogs all of my life and have never found any other being who is so loyal, trustworthy and anxious to please.  It is such a joy as well as the fulfillment of my life long dream to be able to help other dog owners learn how to successfully communicate their wishes to their beloved furry best friend and to watch their dog respond to their wishes.

My training methods are based on positive reinforcement methods.  The Animal Behavior College has trained more successful animal behaviorists here in the United States than any other dog training school.  I am so proud to be able to say that I am a graduate of such an esteemed college!

Come visit my website at: https://www.woofsnwagsdogtraining.com today!

ANNOUNCEMENT! We have some extremely exciting news: Our Woofs N Wags Dog Training website has been invited to be featured on the world-wide website, “Dog Trophy” (https://www.dogtrophy.com) where veterinarians and other amazing professionals share valuable information with dog owners around the world! (I have been invited to be featured as their Pit Bull Expert as well!) We are extremely excited about this opportunity to not only share, worldwide, but to also validate the truth about the amazing, wonderful Pit Bull dog breed! This is a dream-come-true!

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ChloeI feel so blest to be able to announce the new addition to our family, a precious little girl, Chloe.  (Her original name was “Elsa”)  The first time I saw that precious little face I fell head-over-heels in love with her!  I purchased her from Ruff Start Dog Rescue here in Minnesota (they have a Facebook page.)  Ruff Start works together with Pit Bulls and Parolees (the television show) and transported our Chloe’s mama here to Minnesota from Louisiana during a blizzard!   During their journey with Sparkle, (Chloe’s mother) she went into labor and during that terrible winter storm they delivered nine puppies!  We are just one of several lucky recipients of that litter.  (Chloe having been “illegitimate” we don’t know who her daddy was, but we strongly suspect that he was a Pittie, especially since Chloe looks far more “Pit Bull like” than her mama, Sparkle!)Chloe with her mother and siblings

(She is the one in the middle of the puppies who are nursing.)  Chloe is extremely affectionate and very comical!  Whenever I sit down on the sofa in our family room, I can see reflections in the television screen of our backyard through the patio doors.  All of a sudden there will be a little white being racing one way across the backyard, then back again, the other way!  My husband and I have concluded that Chloe has an imaginary friend who she plays with out there!  She is very good at entertaining herself.

The photo at the bottom is one of her looking over the top of the sofa at me – whenever I sit at my computer, my back faces the back of the sofa.  One day when I thought she was still napping on the sofa I heard this one, big “Woof!”  I turned around to see her little face staring at me, and laughed and laughed – it was as if she was saying, “Okay, you’ve been doing that long enough!  It’s time for you to come play with me!”  She is such a little clown and has me laughing a good deal of the time!

She and our elderly Pittie love each other very much.  They cover each other’s faces with kisses and play “chase” together in the backyard everyday,  DSC_0459.JPGWe sometimes worry about “Dazie” our elderly Pittie though since Chloe has very sharp little puppy teeth and likes to nip at Dazie’s chin.  I purchased a muzzle made of nylon today for Chloe (so she couldn’t hurt Dazie) and she had it off within minutes.  She absolutely hated it!  (H-m-m . . . I wonder what on earth I expected!  Silly me.)  The most that Dazie will do to correct Chloe is to take her front paw and knock Chloe over!

Both Pitties sleep with my husband and I every night in our king size bed and it works out very well.  I’ve managed to teach Chloe that the bed is for sleeping, not for play  (I put a few coins in a tin can and shook it when Chloe jumped on Dazie in bed and she never tried it again – much to my amazement!)

Both my hubby and I are incredibly “taken with” the wonderful, amazing Pit Bull and have wanted to be sure we still have one when Dazie eventually passes-on (she’s twelve years old now.)  We know that we couldn’t have done better than our sweet little Chloe and I thank God everyday for our new little angel.

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Dazie Being Ferocious

This is Dazie Being Ferocious – Okay, so we’re at this campground in Maine, right? Dazie is sound asleep – until this guy next door begins shouting at his wife. Dazie does NOT like aggressive people – especially aggressive men! She immediately begins barking, snarling (the way only Pit Bulls can) and this is how she looked. I burst into hysterical laughter! (Sorry the picture is blurry. I was laughing too hard to hold still.) But I’ve got to tell you that the guy next door instantly closed his abusive yap!  YAY Dazie!!

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School District Brought to heel
Over Student’s Pit Bull Service Dog

by Miami Herald (FL) February 24, 2015 12:22 pm

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Stevie is a good dog. He doesn’t eat from the table or have accidents in the house. And he never pulls on his leash.

The white-and-tan Staffordshire terrier also has a special talent: He alerts caregivers when his little boy, Anthony Merchante, is going to have a seizure or has trouble breathing.

Anthony’s mother, Monica Alboniga, tried for two years to convince the Broward County School Board to permit Stevie, a trained service animal, to accompany the 7-year-old on campus. But school administrators repeatedly said Stevie didn’t belong at school. And they hoped that a Fort Lauderdale federal judge would agree with them.

Instead they got a scolding. Last week, U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom ruled that Stevie should be allowed to join his human friend at Nob Hill Elementary — and without a series of requirements the school district had tacked on.

Stevie, Alboniga said, “has saved Anthony’s life. I feel completely safe every time he is with the dog, because I know the dog will look for help.”

As the lawsuit progressed in federal court, the school board allowed Stevie to go to school every day, but administrators continued to fight the case.

“The district has always permitted the service dog at the school,” said the district’s spokeswoman, Tracy Clark. Alboniga “pursued the lawsuit as the parties [the district and the plaintiff] differ somewhat in the interpretation of the federal regulations governing service animals. The district’s legal department is reviewing and analyzing the order.”

Had the district won, Alboniga’s lawyer said, 4-year-old Stevie almost certainly would have been expelled.

Anthony suffers from a host of serious disabilities: He has cerebral palsy, spastic paralysis, a seizure disorder, and he cannot speak. To get around, he depends on a wheelchair, to which Stevie is tethered most of the time.

Alboniga, 37, who is raising her son alone, paid to obtain and train a dog up to the specifications of Assistance Dog International Standards, records say. Stevie can aid caregivers in a variety of ways: He can step onto Anthony’s wheelchair and lay across the boy’s lap; once there, the dog is trained to help stabilize Anthony’s head so his airway isn’t impeded.

“Stevie, the Pit Bull was also trained to ‘tell’ or ‘alert’ human responders in the event that [Anthony] was experiencing a medical crisis,” Bloom wrote. The dog can jump on a sensor mat that activates an alarm, or bark to get the attention of caregivers. He also wears a red service dog vest that holds medical supplies, as well as detailed instructions on how to respond to medical emergencies.

“Stevie lets me know when he has seizures or problems breathing. He pushes me toward Anthony. He barks,” Alboniga said. “When Anthony is having convulsions, he starts barking and goes looking for us. Then he goes back to Anthony and stays with him”

At home in Sunrise, Stevie is also a house pet, although he isn’t all that interested in Anthony’s baby sister, Mariangel, a 5-month-old, because he seems to intuitively understand that Anthony is his full-time job. “He loves Anthony,” Alboniga said. “And Anthony loves Stevie, too.” “He is a very good dog,” Alboniga said. “He is very sweet, and very obedient. He is the best there is.”

All 50 pounds of Stevie rest next to Anthony in bed each night, and the boy and dog are virtually inseparable That’s partly by design. It’s best if service animals spend almost all of their time with their “targets,” trainers say, and long separations diminish the animal’s “responsiveness and effectiveness,” Bloom wrote.

Alboniga first approached the school board in May of 2013, and submitted a formal request for the dog two months later. In its reply in August 2013, the school board said Stevie must obtain a host of vaccinations that rarely are applied to dogs, required Alboniga to obtain costly liability insurance, and mandated that she provide, at her own expense, a “handler” for Stevie.

The requirements, said Alboniga’s lawyer, Matthew Dietz, amounted to “an impossible barrier,” and violated federal civil rights laws that give preference to the choices of disabled people. “The fact that the judge said the school board’s rules made no sense vindicates this woman’s belief that what she was doing for her son was the right thing,” Dietz said.

For the first four months that Anthony attended Nob Hill Elementary School as a kindergartener, beginning in August 2013, Alboniga worked, at the district’s requirement, as Stevie’s handler herself. Later, the school board appointed a custodian to work as Stevie’s handler. His responsibilities were “to walk Stevie alongside [Anthony] with a leash, instead of allowing Stevie to be attached” to the boy’s wheelchair, and to take the dog outside to urinate. The custodian also ensured other children did not try to play with the dog.

“While at school,” the judge wrote, “Stevie does not eat or drink. Nor does Stevie defecate or make stains, or require cleaning or exercise.” Alboniga, the judge said, “attends to Stevie’s daily feeding, cleaning and care needs.”

But administrators continued to assert in the lawsuit that it was not the district’s responsibility to help the boy keep Stevie at school. Anthony’s “individual educational plan” — a detailed accounting of the school’s accommodations to the child — does not mention Anthony’s use of a service dog, Bloom wrote.

Anthony found a friend in the U.S. Justice Department. The department’s civil rights division enforces the Americans with Disabilities Act, landmark legislation passed by Congress in 1990. Last month, the DOJ weighed in on the lawsuit, arguing the school board “fundamentally misunderstands” ADA regulations, which require that “public entities generally must permit individuals with disabilities to be accompanied by their service animals.”

“Congress specifically intended that individuals with disabilities not be separated from their service animals, even in schools,” the DOJ wrote.

The school board contended that it wasn’t necessary for Stevie to accompany Anthony to school since the elementary’s staff already was trained to perform the same tasks as Stevie. The district also argued that, even if Stevie was permitted on Nob Hill’s campus under the ADA, it was not reasonable for the district to bear the costs of the dog’s handler.

The judge wrote that the dispute pivoted on whether it was reasonable to expect the district to allow Stevie on campus under the federal civil rights law. The judge ruled that it was indeed reasonable, “in the same way a school would assist a non-disabled child to use the restroom, or assist a diabetic child with her insulin pump, or assist a physically disabled child employ her motorized wheelchair.”
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2015 Miami Herald
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Pitty City PressHi!
Dazie and I have just completed our first monthly Pitty City Press Newsletter!

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AMAZING PIT BULL VIDEO!

Just incase this video doesn’t post correctly, just go to http://www.Facebook.com/NinaWahl. There is more than one “Nina Wahl” on Facebook, so you may need to type her name into your Facebook Search Bar and go from there. It is worth it! This is a must see!
A Four Year Old In Charge of Eight Pit Bulls

Video by Nina Wahl (published on Facebook)

(I’ve been having trouble posting this video)

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(The terrible man in the photo was NOT from Argentina, but a Chilean police officer!) I’VE JUST LEARNED THAT THERE WAS A PETITION STARTED THAT MORE THAN 45,000 PEOPLE HAVE SIGNED AT CHANGE.ORG! IT READ (and has since been closed):

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This petition will be delivered to:

Criminal prosecuters in Santiago de Chile

Give Patricio Millar the maximum punishment for his abuse of dogs

michelle brew

Mississauga, ON

Patricio Millar is a soldier of the embassy in Santaigo. As such he should be held to the highest morals and should exhibit exemplary behavior. Instead, Mr Millar chose to cruelly abuse his own dogs, photograph the horrors and post the pictures on social media for the world to see. He punched and throttled one, buried it in sand up to its neck and docked its tail without anesthesia. There is photographic proof of these acts. We are sure he has committed more heinous acts of abuse toward these poor trapped dogs.What is especially frightening is that he has no remorse. In fact he is proud of it..posting pictures on Facebook like there is nothing wrong with it. As is well known, animal abusers of this type very often graduate to hurting and sometimes killing human beings.This man is that type as his nonchalance about exhibiting pictures of himself committing such cruel deeds ( not to mention criminal offenses) shows.
We call upon you to make sure this man is sentenced to the maximum under the Chilean laws .
Thank you, (and thank you, Rachel for this information!)

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A FITTING SOLUTION TO PIT BULL/DOG FIGHTING RINGS

I received this on my Facebook site, http://www.Facebook.com/PitBullsForever/PitBullJoy today and couldn’t let it slip by without sharing it with everyone who reads my blog.  It’s just too good to miss out on!  ~JC and Dazie, The Pit Bull

WPLR 99.1 New Haven‘s photo.

16 minutes ago

LOVE this one!!
Are you ready for some football? A friend who is an Eagles fan sent me this (tom)

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Protest Michael Vick as NFL Honorary Captain on Jan 18 NYC – Worldwide, & Jan 26 Orlando FL.

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? ? ? ? ? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Protest Against the National Football League (NFL) for Honoring *Michael Vick* as ProBowl Captain. Who:  Organizers, Kate Riviello, Julie Elrod. Locations/Date/Times:      FIRST DAY OF PROTEST:  January 18, 2020…

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