Have you ever been in a training situation, and you just felt, “I'm in the wrong place. My dog is not responding the way these other dogs are.” It could be a class or a workshop [...]
To the uninitiated, reinforcement-based dog training really looks like you have to walk around with a boatload of cookies, or else you're not going to get your dog to do [...]
Today's podcast was inspired by some of my students who I watched struggling trying to work one dog when the other dog in the household keeps interfering. And if you [...]
So you have a new puppy and you're thinking of ways to socialize it. Here's one you may not have thought of. How about outdoor cafés? Yeah, that seems a little wild, but [...]
Every once in a while, we get a note from a listener saying, “My dog won't take food outside. And so, I don't know how I'll work on things like loose leash walking, or reactivity [...]
If someone had suggested 25 years ago I was going to do a podcast on why everybody should be walking their dogs every day, I'd say you're crazy, because I might have walked my dogs [...]
Over the last few weeks I have been rolling out a series that kind of grew organically from your questions, all about the methodology of how I train my dogs, how I come up with [...]
Having coached a lot of people with their dogs, it seems that dogs kind of go into one of three categories. Either, they absolutely hate being trained, second just behind [...]
A week or two ago, I made a comment on social media that I do not use food lures or toy lures in my dog training. And that created a lot of conversation, some hurt feelings [...]
Today my friends, I invite you to geek out with me on the topic of dopamine in dog training. That's right- the dopamine - the neurotransmitter that people have always thought [...]
