There are two ways to work on your dog listening around distractions, but many people only learn one. The first way is to get your dog into a controlled position like a sit or [...]
How well does your dog respond to your cues at a distance? Would your dog sit or down when they are off leash and far away? It’s a skill that can be life saving for dogs! It only [...]
Does balanced dog training really exist? Being a balanced trainer is part of my background in dog training. In many discussions about dog training methods, you will frequently [...]
Last week, I set out to do a podcast episode explaining why I choose not to use an electric collar with my dogs and with my students' dogs. And it sent me down a spiral of looking [...]
A common question that we get asked here at DogsThat is, “How long should it take to train my dog because my dog seems to be taking a long time,” and that's a question I've [...]
Over the years, I've had students join our program and say, “Susan, I love everything you do. I love the shaping approach to dog training.” Except I would never do that for [...]
A common question our online students ask of us is, “What can I do when I get stuck?”, “What can I do when training just doesn't work?”, “What can I do when I don't know what [...]
In July of 1996, I won the largest Agility Championship in North America at the time, the USDAA National Championship. I, also that month, was on a Flyball team that set [...]
When I was a kid, there was a cartoon, and I honestly don't remember what it was called. And at the beginning of it, it was like a caveman kind of a cartoon. In the opening [...]
Our last Shaped by Dog episode, podcast number 297, created a lot of conversations over on YouTube. And I thank each and every one of you for contributing to that conversation [...]
