Carrie has been giving us advise for a very very long time. We ask her many different dog questions and she is not shy about giving us her professinal opinion. I don't think she gives smart advice - she tells it like it is! Somethings we take and practice and some we ignore and do it our way ( sometimes I wonder why we ask the questions we do as we have no plans to change )!Ha. You are new here and I hope you enjoy it - but remember if you do ever ask for advice you will get it and lots of it and some responses you won't like at all.