Vacation/Business Travel Care

I provide Loving Care for your precious pets when you are out of town on vacation or business travel. All Vacation/Travel Care visits include bringing in newspaper/mail, climate control, adjusting lights, watering indoor plants, premises review.

Daily Dog Care: Three 30-minute visits each day for up to 3 dogs who are leash trained and walk well together.

• Feeding: whatever your preferred diet is—kibble, organic, home-cooked, or raw
• Refresh water
• Walks and/or playtime
• Brushing
• Medications

Daily Cat Care: One 30-minute visit each day for up to 3 indoor cats

• Feeding/Fresh water
• Playtime
• Brushing
• Medications
• Litter scooping

Daily Parrot Care: Two 30-minute visits each day for up to 2 parrots

• Cage covering/uncovering
• Feeding/Fresh water
• Cage cleaning (change paper, wipe down)
• Playtime
• Showering/Bathing/Misting
• Medications

Greyhound Care: In my home. Greyhounds only. Vaccination and health certificate from your veterinarian or proof of titer required. Dog must be small animal safe and get on well with other hounds and other breeds of dogs. Large fenced yard for your hound's running pleasure.

Exotic pets, breeders, farm animals: Care dependent on requirements.

Additional Vacation/Business Travel Services:

• Outdoor plant care: water gardens, potted plants.
• Additional playtime: 15-minute increments. This is especially valuable for multiple pet households where a half hour visit isn't enough to give all your babies their own playtime.

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Training

Dog Obedience Training

Group and private training classes at PETsMART in Montgomeryville, PA.

PETsMART endorses only all-positive, non-force training methods. All PETsMART instructors are certified. Some of the top trainers in dog training today developed the curriculum! Classes are geared toward helping you build a special bond with your dog. Both you and your dog will see just how much fun learning can be. Groups are small, limited to 6-8 dog and handler teams to facilitate better learning through more individualized instruction and support. Classes available are:

• Puppy Head Start: socialization, housetraining, leaving a puppy home alone, and overall house manners.
• Basic Education I: unlearning undesirable behaviors, learning new preferred behaviors, basics like sit, down, leave it, walking on a leash.
• Basic Education II: games and exercises used to build on behaviors learned in Puppy and Basic I
• Advanced Learning: Stay, heel, distraction work with sit, down, preparation for Canine Good Citizen test.
• Canine Good Citizen test
• Click-a-Trick: Using operant conditioning—the use of a reward marker (the clicker) to identify to your dog what he is doing correctly—you will teach fun tricks like roll over, bow, give paw in addition to learning how to teach fun tricks of your own.
• Greyhound only classes: Linda will offer a Basic class tailored to the unique needs of newly adopted hounds and their pet parents.
• Day, evening, and weekend classes available.

Call PETsMART, Montgomeryville at 215-699-9366 for class availability.

Parrot Training

Want to do more than look at Polly? Get with the fun! Train your parrot! Parrots are natural clowns. They love to play and do tricks for you. I use clicker training for all my students. Clicker training is all positive and force-free. Aversives just don't work with parrots. You must build trust. They have to want to work with you. Find out how much fun it is to be your birdie buddy's best friend.

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New Greyhound Set-up

Did you know that hounds right off the track don't know that sliding glass doors or mirrors are solid or that swimming pools aren't? I can supply the information you need to provide your retired racing greyhound a wonderful life in his new home with you. 

• Proofing your home
• Baby Steps
• Reading materials
• Online references
• Basic training
• Kids and hounds
• Other pets
• Health, Nutrition, Veterinarians

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New Parrot Set-up

Is this your first parrot? Or are you just unsure if you are giving him the best care you can? I can help you provide the most nurturing and healthy home for you birdie buddy.

• What cage is right?
• Toys, perches, and other fun stuff
• Reading materials
• Online references
• Basic training
• Kids and birds
• Other pets
• Health, Nutrition, Veterinarians

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