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Canine Connection is partnering with the Dubuque YMCA to offer an innovative new "specialty" program at the Dubuque YMCA ~ a youth dog training program using clicker training and a "Clicker Kids Club!" This program will offer a positive alternative to the force-based programs that are currently available in the area and will be open to youth ages 7-15. The purpose is to teach children how to effectively train dogs using positive reinforcement/clicker training and more ~ this program will teach youth effective ways of interacting with people, skills that they can take with them throughout their lives! Area youth will receive top of the line dog training instruction in clicker training at an affordable price and will have the opportunity to train their dogs to the highest level they desire as well as participate in interesting and educational dog-related activities. Classes start March 31!

Cindy Ludwig, certified clicker trainer and owner of Canine Connection LLC in Dubuque, Iowa has been accepted as a dog training expert on AllExperts.com. See her profile here.

Our joint partnership with WQAD in the quad cities and the Quad City Animal Welfare Center in Milan, Illinois is officially launched with our first video featuring an adoptable dog from the Quad City Animal Welfare Center. The Quad City Animal Welfare Center in Milan, Illinois is a no-kill animal shelter located about an hour and a half south of Dubuque and has many wonderful animals for adoption. We hope this joint effort will bring more awareness to eastern Iowa and western Illinois about positive reinforcement dog training and help animals find forever homes! Read this week's blog post with video: Clicker training Ray - a dog with a visual impairment who sees with his heart

Check out the latest post on WQAD: click here.

_Canine Connection is pleased to announce that we will be partnering with WQAD in the quad cities to post a weekly blog about dog training. We will be working with area shelters to feature dogs and cats for adoption and show how clicker training can help each of these adoptable pets! Read the first blog post here.

Cindy and Opal returned to Loras College on January 18 to provide a presentation to communications students in a class on human/canine communication. Students learned how clicker training facilitates communication between trainer and animal and saw a demonstration of some of Opal's service dog tasks. One student even volunteered to let Opal pull his sock off, a task that Opal loves!

Opal pulls the sock off one of the students in class!

Cindy and Opal teamed up to do a presentation about positive reinforcement training for a group of scout explorers interested in learning more about the veterinary field and dog training.

A letter to the editor of the Dubuque Telegraph Herald submitted by Canine Connection owner and manager,
Cindy Ludwig was published in yesterday's paper. In her letter she explains that breed legislation does not apply to service dogs as clarified by the United States Justice Department in a 2010 ruling by the Department. You can read the letter online by clicking here if you subscribe to the Telegraph Herald.