"I always enjoy learning new things and improving my skills. One of the best places to do that is at the educational conference sponsored by the Association of Professional Dog Trainers. There are always talks that you listen to that introduce you to something that changes the game forever. Meg Harrison and her presentation on Flower Essences was the one that did that for me.
Shortly after getting back to North Carolina from the conference I contacted Meg for guidance. I had a few tough behavior cases that just weren’t getting very far with behavior modification alone and I figured I had nothing to lose by trying her products. The results were amazing!
The first case I used it with was a dog who had a bad habit of barking and spinning every time she went for a ride in the car. This had been going on for several years! The owners would occasionally use medication to sedate her before the drive but most often simply used earplugs to lesson the noise.
I was not the first trainer to work with them and although we were making some progress using behavior modification techniques it wasn’t consistent and was moving very slowly. I arrived with the BlackWing Farms’ products and recommended that they use them along with the other things we had been working on for at least a week before taking the dog for a ride in the car. Two days later I got a call saying that they had gone for a 20-minute ride and only had one little “yip” on the way there and one little “yip” on the way back! I couldn’t believe it!
The next case was separation anxiety. Again, after just two days the dog went from escaping the room where she was kept and trying to get out the doors and windows to calming sleeping on the bed. Needless to say, I now use these products as often as I can with my clients."
- Jennifer King, CPDT-KA
