Morgan’s Bio: (Paws for Thought)


Over the past 30 years, Morgan’s Dogs has accumulated quite a compilation of credits, editorials, write-ups, television appearances and News clippings. On top of our yearly lists of seminars, lectures, Com-Ed Dog Bite Prevention Demos throughout the state, countless drug searches in schools and commercial businesses and trick shows for various organizations, you may have also read about or seen us in any of the following; Chicago’s Channel 7 News, Chicago’s Channel 9 News, Chicago Tribune 1989, Avenue M Magazine 1989, Chicago Tribune 1990, Chicago’s Skyline/Booster 1991, Chicago Tribune 1991, On The Town With Ann Gerber, Pet Times 1996, Chicago’s Sun Times 1997, Pet Times 2000, Wicker Park Voice Newspaper June 2003, Wicker Park Voice Newspaper August 2003, City Life Newspaper 2003, Highland Park News 2004, Center Stage Newspaper 2005, The Monthly Procrastinator Newspaper 2006, Chicago Tails Magazine 2007, The Columbia Chronicles online edition February 2008, Bark Magazine July/August 2009, Pet Times Newspaper, Pug Talk Magazine and Time Out Chicago Magazine, to name a few!  We have had television appearances on The Bozo Show, The Jenny Jones Show, The Mark Alan Show and Living Well America Show, to also name a few! We were part of a Russian documentary series, called, “Cities of the World”, filmed by Pasha Patriki. We were honored that Yaz Productions asked us to be in their pet series, “Pet is Love”, and have included a video clip on our website. We have been the trainers behind various commercials, films, documentaries, photo shoots and ad campaigns.  In the music video by Sound Garden, in the song, Rusty Cage, those were our dogs and training also.  If you missed us on all the above, you can always keep abreast of new announcements, appearances and happenings in the “Canine Chronicles” section of our website.




“THE CANINE CHRONICLES” 


It’s amazing how some people treat their dogs, in relation to their own children.  Mostly, it’s the women! Don’t get me wrong, the men do it too, but the women already had this nurturing, mothering side to begin with. Throw in a puppy though, and it’s just been cranked up full blast! You might as well have taken a wrong look at the “newborn young” of a wild puma.

I got a call the other day at the kennel. It was your typical housebreaking call. New pup, teething, feces and pee all over the house! I listened patiently while the woman went into great detail about the destruction of her home. The smell, ruined furniture, chewed chair legs; gutted pillows….the list went on and on. To top everything off, Isabella, (her toy poodle puppy) had chewed all the children’s toys instead of indulging herself in the trunk of new designer, doggie toys which had been purchased for her amusement.  Isabella had also thrown up her breakfast on her “white, silk bed”. This was after the kids had made her run in circles for 30 minutes, playing “tag”. 

As she stopped to take a breath, I took my cue….”Get a crate”, I told her. Now, this same woman who has hundreds of dollars of damage to her home, not to mention an oncoming migraine, begins to take my head off!!  I get called everything from being “bloody abusive” to being called “f---ing cruel to animals!!” The first time this happened, I was stunned and quite hurt, as I was trying to help. Now, I just agree. In fact, I remind them how very “right” they are. That puppy needs it freedom. Who are we to restrict and monitor its movements?! 

I then further validate her accusations by telling her that most of society is “sick” like this.  “Do you know that Chicago school children are forced to sit in a chair 5 days out of 7, for about 6 hours at a time…with one fifteen minute break to stretch?”, I implore her!  “And if they want to go the bathroom, they have to raise their hand?” I continue.  “And God forbid if the little sweethearts talk out of line, they are actually made to stand in a corner, facing a wall!!!!!” I remind her how even worse they are treated as newborns…”seems you always see some abusive parent strapping one so “tightly” to a car seat or leaving another in a so called “playpen”, for hours on end. Some are even tied to a swing, restrained and seat-belted in!!  “It’s a sick society”, I reply, siding with her.

I admit I still smile at the “silence” which ensues after this.  I smile even more, knowing I’ve sold another crate!                    

                                                                    Elana Morgan

 

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