Effective, efficient, and kind dog training involves the transfer of value. The thing you would like your dog to learn how to do, they are game to participate in it [...]
If you are one of the people trying to train a dog who really is indifferent about food, you may think ‘this dog training is never going to work for me.’ And you know [...]
Last weekend, I competed at the Canadian Agility Dog World Team Tryouts, and I competed with my dog This!. Now, every dog I have ever tried out for the Canadian [...]
At the time of recording this podcast episode, there are 650 videos on our YouTube channel, and most of them have graphic demonstration on how to train your dog [...]
In podcast episode number 258, I described “The Threshold Game.” And it's a game that I put together for one of my students who had an over exuberant puppy [...]
As we kick off the fourth season of Shaped by Dog, I decided that I would share a lesson directly from our online classrooms. And I think this lesson, in a large part [...]
Dog training by nature is quite nuanced. By that I mean, there are gross behaviors that most dog owners can get to some level. Sit, down, and fetch. But to get [...]
In today's Shaped by Dog episode, I'm going to tackle a difficult conversation. And I want to convey the compassion and empathy I have for everybody when [...]
In Shaped by Dog podcast episode number 262, I explained all of the necessary steps to shaping a high drive dog. And the question came up, “What if my dog [...]
I asked ChatGPT, what were the top 10 frustrations of dog owners worldwide? And it came back an interesting list. I'm sure you could guess what they are. So, in today's [...]
