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 [...]
If you've been following my most recent podcast episodes you will know I'm talking about how we train dogs. How I train my own dogs and how I train my students' dogs [...]
Did you catch podcast episode number 171? The one we just did, super important. There I shared exactly what I want when I'm putting together a training plan for my dog [...]
In the last podcast episode number 170 where I dug into the five different ways that you could use reinforcement in training, I mentioned that we did something called [...]
If someone were to say to you, “I'm a reinforcement-based dog trainer,” that actually could be a number of different things. And today I'm gonna go over the main differences between [...]
If you were to google “help for my anxious stressed or reactive dog”, you're going to get a lot of great suggestions. Things like essential oils you should use, or nutritional supplements [...]
In podcast episode number 167 I talked about how you can set up your training so that you can avoid unnecessary stress or anxiety for your dog. And today I'm following up that [...]
I was talking to a fellow trainer on the weekend, and we were discussing how much stress and anxiety is showing up in everything from pet owners to potential sport dogs [...]
