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ewen trains dogs and their owners byannecret lamure claremont theres no such thing as an untrainable dog says sandy ewen flatly its simply a matter of training the owner sandy who has raised and trained dogs for as long as she can remember ought to know she operates win- berway kennels in claremont conducts obedience classes in richmond hill and has dogs that are so well trained that they are often sought out for film and tv work her beautiful yellow labrador retrievers can be admired in two dif ferent molsons com mercials a soon to be released wrigleys spearmint gum com mercial a dr ballards jb beef stew commercial the canadian production of swiss family robinson series as well as in a nabisco shredded wheat commercial with tommy hunter hunter sandy recalls immediately fell in love with the dog we did the commercial in the morning and he came by to buy a dog from me that night she reported the director of swiss family also had nothing but admiration for his canine star it was necessary to have 25 takes for one particular scene before it was right but the dog never flagged rocks would fall or the kids would be in the wrong place but the dog didnt blow it once in 25 shots said sandy proudly he was perfect every time she said at the end of the day the director wanted to send the kids home with her presumably for further training and keep the dog she finds tv work with puppies a bit more complicated and once spent a whole day at the filming of what amounted to a 15 second episode in the dr ballards dog food commercial only three puppies appeared in the final production but sandy actually brought eight for the filming the main problem was that the pups bad to be photographed eating beef stew and even a hungry pup can only eat so much having eight that looked alike helped but even tually the cameras would grind to a halt the puppies got full and wed have to wait for the food to go through sandy laughed another dif ficulty was the young puppies clumsiness theyd get all gucked up because theyd fall in the food she explained and wed have to take time out to clean them up despite the tv work and the timeconsuming business of running a kennel sandy still finds time to train other peoples dogs apparently most people take their dogs to obedience training because they dont behave either the dog is not a problem but they think it may become one or the dogs a problem already she stated and sometimes we get dogs where its a case of either they mind or theyll be put down since success of training generally depends on the owner sandy is a firm believer in both dog and sandy ewen who runs wimberway kennels in claremont has been raising and training dogs all her life she founded the labrador owners club and is club trainer several of her dogs have starred on tv and she also teaches obedience classes in rich mond hill master attending obedience classes together i like to take a dog and show the owner what hes doing wrong she said sometimes people do something a little wrong and every time they do it i gets a little more wrong because of this she is understanding when bewildered dog owners call her on the phone between classes her pupils both canine and human are expected to do homework every day she estimates it takes about 10 weeks to train a dog to heelon a lead sit when stopped sit stay down stay and come when called from a sit stay but cautions that all dogs learn at a different rate sandy will also board a dog and teach it and figures that the same training would then take about a month although the dog will soon forget all its learning if the owner doesnt continue the routine theres no point training a dog and then it goes home and is allowed to go wild she explained sandy has taught all shapes and sizes of dogs and most give her no trouble but she remembers a giant st bernard that gave her some uneasy moments he tried to eat you she explained every time you touched his collar he lunged and hed always try to get around and get your backside sandy said that once you had him by the collar he was fine but that it wasnt easy to reach over his head two hundred pounds of st bernard saying i dont want to she laughed shaking her head you just had to have a heavy jacket on heavy jacket aside sandy considers patience and consistency most important during training sessions she feels that ideally training should start as soon as a dog has some of the puppy high jinks out of it usually somewhere around the age of six months before that the dogs attention span is too short although a younger pup can be taught to come and sit as to the upper age limit shes not too sure older dogs are more set in their ways and harder to train she remarked thoughtfully ideally they should probably be under three years but then she remembered an 11 year old untrained dog she was given at one time and she became doubtful it all depends on the dog she con cluded finally the one thing she is very sure about is the question of breed labs of course she laughed while hugging two of her favorites there isnt any other breed is there anyone watching her dogs on tv would probably be hard put to disagree with her photos and story by annegret lamure obedience training requires effort for both dog and master here barb fletcher encourages her dog rip to clear a jump by leaping over it herself vermouth an advanced pupil in sandys obedience class in richmond hill has no trouble jumping over the boards with the encouragement of his master john dale the height of the obstacle is increased gradually until the dogs are jumping three feet or more to retrieve an object on the other side youve got to be kidding seems to be the attitude of teddy a yellow now you pay attention- owner bill studdy seems very lab as he sits with his back firmly to the jumps however hes really only serious about training his doberman but jake looks a little doubtful about waiting for his owner to call him the whole thing thats a good dog- richard nakoheczy ogives his clumber spaniel chaucer a bear hug for good performance the emphasis during training fa placed on rewarding good behavior rather than on punishment salome carey seems to have some trouble controlling major the familys bull terrier major is in the beginners obedience class and salome s says hat hes a heavy baby she revealed that when he bees good he just gets a piece of cheese but admits that this is not always the case when i take him for a walk he goes around and around me and tangles me really up in the leash she explained hopefully obedience training will straighten him out the affection between dog and master is obviously mutual here brian nadim rewards apollo his springer spaniel with a kiss after the dog waited patiently in the same spot for five minutes without moving a muscle