Nanette Lai - MA, CPDT-KA @ms-dogtrainer

Holistic Dog Training Welcome to a place where you learn how to become the best dog-parent. Holistic Dog Training is all about how to humanely treat, train, and emotionally support your best friend. You become the trainer ...

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21.06.2025 15:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What Are You Trying To Buy When Looking At Certain Accessories For Your Dog? There's a lot of questionable advertisements with pet products.

Buying a no-pull harness is a great management tool.

The harness stops your dog from pulling.

But it doesn't teach your dog what to do instead.

09.06.2025 21:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Doodles Make Terrible Pets. Predatory Marketing Has Created An Illusion. How I turned a Doodle into a well-mannered pet.

16.02.2025 00:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy Valentine's Day!

14.02.2025 19:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Service Dog ✅ Book ✅ True Crime Podcasts ✅

11.02.2025 14:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How I Stopped A Dog From Counter-Surfing/Begging For Food While My Family and I Were Eating Many people ask me how to stop their dogs from counter-surfing or begging at the table.

How I Stopped A Dog From Counter-Surfing/Begging For Food While My Family and I Were Eating

05.02.2025 23:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So proud of the work I've done with Min these past 4 years. She was at Seneca College King campus this morning for vet tech students to practice skills they'll need for work after graduation #bloodwork #physicalexam
#pandemicpuppy #anunbalanceddogtrainer #mswarrior

31.01.2025 05:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s 2025. Do Not Do As The [Ancient] Romans Do. The prong/pinch collar has been described as a Medieval Torture device. That’s inaccurate. Because the design occurred far earlier.

If you believe prong collars don't hurt, here's a history lesson.

BTW, a prong collar not only hurts your dog, they are a tool for a "balanced" trainer to have a long-term income.

By introducing you to a modern device: the shock collar.

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Fanny showing what to do when it snows outside.

16.01.2025 16:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Short coat Black Chihuahua lying down on comforter

Min doing DPT on my thighs. She is so intuitive - I often experience spasticity in my thighs. This behavior was uncued.

#MS #MSwarrior #servicedog #connecteddog #chihuahua #anunbalanceddogtrainer #rewardbaseddogtrainer

16.01.2025 15:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations 🎉

16.01.2025 15:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hanging out with Service Dog Min. Don't feel like moving. #fatigue #mswarrior

15.01.2025 01:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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12.01.2025 00:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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12.01.2025 00:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Using MS To Justify Dog Abuse Screams Lack of Ethics This is why dog training needs regulation.

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08.01.2025 21:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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08.01.2025 16:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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08.01.2025 14:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#nighttimerituals

04.01.2025 03:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Having MS means one of my strengths is teaching dogs distance behaviors.

How? I intentionally insert distractions early on in a dog's education.

26.12.2024 17:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Service Dog Min doing DPT.

#mswarrior #servicedog #tasking #multiplesclerosis #forcefreedogtrainer

25.12.2024 23:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#soundon

Furnace getting replaced. Tons of noise.

So proud of this little gal. Being a pandemic puppy = her social exposures were extremely limited.

23.12.2024 22:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Know what could be a really good review website?

Reviews on reviewers online. The reviews would implicitly be an assessment on reviewers' writing ability. With Google, you see how many reviews an account holder gives. There are definitely patterns.

There are some reviewers I hope to never meet.

23.12.2024 16:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TLDR: four subtypes.
Pattern 1-cross glial stress response: increased folding
Pattern 2-cross glial stress: DNA damage
Pattern 3-inhibitory ECM response to oligodendroglial differentiation.
Pattern 4-immune response failure which halts oligodendrocyte maturation

(Pattern 5 is regenerative.) #MS 🧵1

23.12.2024 12:41 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Furnace motor worn out. Family getting quotes for a new furnace tomorrow. Apparently the one we have is 10 years old.

23.12.2024 05:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0