The Dog Training Coaches of San Diego

Its fun to have “The Dog Coaches” here sometimes to help me out with the dog boot campers that are in training. My very good friends who happen to be world class triathletes themselves each have dogs, that I’ve trained of course. Gidget belongs to Paula Newby Fraser and Paul Huddle of Multisports.com. She’s the rotty cattledog mix. I resuced her from a shelter, trained her for 18 months and then gave her to what has turned out to be the best home in the whole world. She is a very lucky dog.

Morgan belongs to Roch Frey and Heather Fuhr, also of Multisports.com. Roch is one of the premier coaches in the triathlon industry, and Heather, well, she owns the second most Ironman Titles right behind Paula in the world! Morgan was also a rescue. She didn’t make it through an explosives detection program. Roch and Heather gave her a home because they were the ideal people to have a Belgian Malinois. They need ALOT of exercise and this was definitely the home for her.

They’ve turned out to be model dogs and when their “parents” travel as they quite often do as the director of many North American Ironmans now, Gidget and Morgan come to stay with me. I love it. They are part of my family. All of them.

Gidget and Morgan along with my dogs get a key element in great dog behavior… a lot of exercise. We are all very active and with well trained dogs we also take our dogs a lot of places with us. Not long ago Gidget even went out on a stand up paddle board. It was awesome.

We all love our dogs very much. It’s such a great thing to come home to North County San Diego, no matter what your mood… the dog is wagging his or her tail and all it reminds us that in the moment, all is well.