November dog training classes with Julia Levitt

A new season is upon us but that doesn’t stop our intrepid dog training partner Julia Levitt from teaching classes on how to make your dog a better citizen. She’ll once again be conducting both a puppy class and one for adult dogs, both beginning on November 10th. Read more

Posted in Blog, Featured, October 18th, 2012, Comments Off | Chris

Helping your senior dog age gracefully

Dogs do experience changes as they grow older, and it is important to recognize these changes. But whoever said “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” may have never owned a dog. Read more

Posted in Blog, Featured, August 30th, 2012, Comments Off | Chris

September dog training classes with Julia Levitt

Julia Levitt, our partner for dog training, is offering a new set of classes. In addition to her puppy class and a class for adult dogs, she’ll be running a brand new class especially for toy breeds! All classes begin on Saturday, August 11th. Read more

Posted in Blog, Featured, August 9th, 2012, Comments Off | Chris

July dog training classes with Julia Levitt

Julia Levitt, our partner for dog training, has announced another set of upcoming classes. She is once again offering both a puppy class and a class for adult dogs, and both begin on Saturday, June 9th. Read more

Posted in Blog, Featured, June 12th, 2012, Comments Off | Chris

April dog training classes with Julia Levitt

Julia Levitt, aka Miss Harmony, has informed us that she has some dog training classes scheduled to begin in April. All classes meet once per week for 4 weeks. Read more

Posted in Blog, March 28th, 2012, Comments Off | Chris

Meet Lenny of the AAPD, part 2

Last week we posted the first half of “More than man’s best friend: Meet Lenny of the Ann Arbor Police Department.” Here’s the second half, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Read more

Posted in Blog, Featured, March 28th, 2012, Comments Off | Chris

More than man’s best friend: Meet Lenny of the AAPD

We do annual preventative health, emergency care, and other general health concerns for police dogs at the Ann Arbor Police Department. We recently reached out to Officer Patrick Maguire of the AAPD with our list of questions on working animals, and he gave us a lot of information in his answers. Read more

Posted in Blog, Featured, March 20th, 2012, Comments Off | Chris

Meet Alpine, the Therapy Dog

Alpine is a therapy dog for Arbor Hospice, and she is one of our patients here at the Ann Arbor Animal Hospital. She is also the star of this edition of our series on working animals. Read more

Posted in Blog, Featured, February 22nd, 2012, Comments Off | Chris

Training your puppy = Preventative Medicine?

My name is David Caddell and I am the Hospital Director at the Ann Arbor Animal Hospital. Julia has been our training instructor and also serves as a behaviorist that our veterinarians refer patients too. We see pets on an almost weekly basis who have ingested some type of foreign body requiring life saving surgery. Julia believes training can actually serve as preventative medicine. Read more

Posted in Blog, Featured, January 10th, 2012, Comments Off | David

Non-verbal Cues From Dogs & Anxiety

Julia Levitt is the founder of In Harmony Dog Training (www.inharmonydogtraining.com) in Ann Arbor. Julia provides individual training for dogs and their owners, and also conducts dog training classes at Ann Arbor Animal Hospital. She also serves as a behaviorist that our veterinarians refer difficult behavior cases to. Read more

Posted in Blog, December 22nd, 2011, Comments Off | David