Tag: Greatest American Dog

I thought that this was a great picture of Laurie and Andrew... what do all of you think?  We were actually contacted by them today to take us up on offer of bully sticks and other treats as consolation prizes for the runner ups!!

I must say that we were a bit starstruck but in the end every dog whether on TV or not deserves high quality all natural dog chews.  I just think that it was great to have a role model like Laurie make it as far as she did in the competition.  If you can tell from our writings we thought that Laurie and Andrew were the best team out there and we love Laurie's positive training technique.

Her training website is Pup-n-Iron there you can find a wealth of knowledge on dog training and even sign up for the newsletter.

Congrats again...Laurie and Andrew for a job well done!  We honored our word and sent Andrew some awesome dog treats today!!!

Greatest American Dog Finale

Wow the show is finally over...I don't know how many of you stayed with it the whole time but our interest did wane after the first few episodes!  The show's last three contestants were Travis and Presley, JD and Galaxy, and Laurie and Andrew.  For the final show there were a lot of interviews between owners and judges.  I thought that of the three owners interviews Laurie and Travis definitely did the best job.  JD's attitude was one of superiority throughout the interviews and we got the impression that he felt as though he learned nothing at canine academy; I think that the judges agreed with him!

In any case, the last two teams standing were Laurie and Andew and Travis and Presley.  Travis and Presley ended up winning the whole thing ($250,000) and plenty of advertising and publicity. Congratulations to both Travis and Presley  I am sure that they are both ecstatic right now!

I wonder how successful the show ended up being for CBS and whether or not there will be a season 2. What do you all think?

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Greatest American Dog

Sorry for not staying up to date on the show reports.  We wanted to keep all of you updated and let you know that in the last two episodes Bill and Star and Teresa and Leroy were voted off in that respective order.  This leaves JD and Galaxy, Laurie and Andrew, and Travis and Presley, as the only teams left in the competition. One of those three teams will end up winning it all this Wednesday night!  

We are pulling for Laurie and Andrew because she seems to have her dog Andrew extremely well trained, she uses positive reinforcement, and quite frankly we find him adorably obedient!  We are going to send the runner ups bully sticks as a consolation prize! 

Greatest American Dog

After watching this episode, we really started to think about how much more training we need to do with our own two dogs (two pugs, one named "espy" and the other "sushi"). Bill and Star and Travis and Presley won the quick challenge by having their dog's rescue one of them from a box.In the main challenge owners and their dogs were tested by having to first acclimate their dog with 3 puppies and then have their dogs lead the puppies through a maze to a finish line.  In our opinion, JD and Galaxy and Teresa and Leroy.  Both of them led all three of the puppies out of the maze to "safety".

During the judging and throughout this episode there was a constant back and forth about training through positive reinforcement or training through fear.  It became clear that the judges were also divided on this issue with Victoria championing "positive reinforcement" and Wendy suggesting that the way that JD trains is fine too.   What do all of you think?

In the end, Bella Starlet and Beth Joy were voted off and it was fairly clear that they performed the worst in the main challenge.  It is starting to wind down and we are excited to see the outcome!

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Greatest American Dog 5

If episode 4 was like "Top Model" we would say that the episode 5 show was like "Dancing with the Stars"....In this episode the quick challenge was to walk on a plank over some mud which Teresa and Leroy ended up winning. Instead of keeping the "dog bone suite" they gracefully gave it over to Bill and Star (Bill was starting to get homesick). As part of her win she also passed on the ability to train with a choreographer over to Bill and Star. We thought Bill had a great routine and it was very nice of Teresa to help him out and be a team player.

For the best in show challenge the remaining contestants had to pick a genre of music to dance with their dog to. The winner of this challenge was Laurie and her Maltese Andrew. This came as no surprise to us because in our opinion, Laurie and Andrew have an excellent partnership. The bottom three for the week were Travis/Presley, Laura/Preston, and Brandi/Beacon. Brandi and Beacon ended up getting voted off and quite frankly we think it will reduce the stress level in the house.

As things begin to get closer to the end, it is our opinion that the top three pairs will be Bill/Star, Laurie/Andrew, and JD/Galaxy.

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