DOG TRAINING OFFERED IN-PERSON AND ONLINEOur dog training services are delivered in almost any format that meets your needs. We have GROUP CLASSES at our indoor and outdoor facilities on our farm, ONLINE LIVE STREAMING classes, and SELF-PACED VIDEO-BASED training through our Online Dog Training Course. Our PRIVATE TRAININGS can be done in-home, outside, in public dog-friendly locations, at our facility on our farm, online via phone or video conferencing and through email. |
IN THIS ISSUE
ISSUE # 192 July 2026
TRAIN MY DOG: Default Behaviors From Your Dog | Some Situations Call For A Default Behavior From Our Dogs | Is My Dog Making Good Choices: Zuzu And The Deer | Making Good Choices: Zuzu And The Goats – Part 1 | Making Good Choices: Zuzu And The Goats – Part 2
Recent Pics: June 2026 Photos
Calendar: Classes and Events Schedule
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TRAIN MY DOG
Default Behaviors and Making Good Choices
- Good choices start when arousal is low. If your dog cannot focus, listen, or walk politely in easy situations, they will not be ready to make good choices around bigger distractions.
- High arousal makes thinking harder. Whether your dog is excited, worried, conflicted, or frustrated, big feelings can quickly override good manners and self-control.
- Default behaviors give your dog a better plan. Instead of jumping, pulling, barking, lunging, or chasing, teach your dog an automatic behavior such as sitting, checking in, waiting, or staying near you.
- Practice in everyday moments first. Meals, doorways, leash time, greetings, play, and coming home are perfect opportunities to teach your dog to pause, settle, and make better choices.
- Reward the choices you want repeated. Calm observation, loose leash walking, checking in, waiting, and choosing not to chase are all powerful moments to notice and reinforce.
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CALENDAR
Upcoming Classes in Highlands Ranch
Our Saturday & Tuesday evening classes are held outdoors at various locations, typically within close proximity to Santa Fe and C-470.
- Polite Pooches in Public: Saturdays, 5:30 pm, new class 8/22
- Juvenile Delinquents: Tuesdays, 6:00 pm, new class 8/11
Upcoming Classes at The Light of Dog Farm
- Puppy Preschool: Sundays 1:15 pm, rolling enrollment
- Basic Training: Sundays, 2:30 pm, new class 7/19 & 9/13
- Juvenile Delinquents: Sundays 3:45 pm, new class 7/19 & 9/13
- Intermediate: Sundays 12:00 pm, new class 7/19 & 9/13
- Distracted Dogs: Sundays 10:45 am, new class 7/19
Click here for our complete group class & events schedule with available spaces.
WHO IS THE LIGHT OF DOG
The “Kids”
Zooka (Vizsla) joined us in July 2019. Current jobs are: entertaining our visiting dogs; being the demo dog at classes as needed; being a “neutral” dog for dog-reactive private training client sessions; providing content for blog posts; helping keep Blitzen in shape and out of trouble; being patient with his brother Blitzen. Blitzen (Vizsla) joined us in December 2020. Current jobs are: wearing out visiting dogs; being a “neutral” dog for dog-reactive private training client sessions; providing content for blog posts; working on finding his “zen”.
Wife & Husband
Sue Brown, behavior consultant, dog trainer and writer extraordinaire and Eddie Soehnel, dog products, farm manager and the techie.
The Light of Dog Farm
We live and operate from 14-acres in Sedalia, where we have indoor and outdoor facilities for training and boarding, fenced private dog park rental and a USDA-licensed kitchen for dog food products, We grow using regenerative agriculture and free-range our chickens in protected spaces.
Our goal is to positively impact the lives of as many dogs and their families as we can, in part through our extensive library of video, infographics and text articles. |
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