First of all, why would you even want to teach a dog down? Like, why do you care? The dog can sit. They can stand. They can down. It's just a family pet. Why do I care? [...]
If you’ve ever said, “Why won’t my dog just listen?” or “He does this at home.” or “He's being stubborn.” or “He's just blowing me off.” well, my friend if you've said [...]
When I was in university, I had a poster on my dorm wall, and it had a mountain goat standing on the top of a mountain and a beautiful blue sky behind him. And the [...]
The only way we can make the world a better place for all the dogs in it is if we can inspire the people who own those dogs to want to train the dogs. But that's not [...]
Imagine if you and your BFF both got litter mates. And you both trained for exactly the same amount of time every week. You used exactly the same training treats [...]
In Las Vegas at the casinos, they have this expression, “The house always wins.” In dog training, there is a similar expression and that is: “The environment always wins.” [...]
Puppies pee for one of three reasons. Occasionally they might have a bladder infection. It's rare, but it does happen. Number two is their bladder is full and they [...]
In the world of dog training, there's a lot of people trying to train their dog focused solely on the use of reinforcement. Yet there's a great disparity on the success [...]
It's not uncommon for anyone to get to a place where you know you should be training your dog today, but you just don't feel it. You just can't motivate yourself to [...]
Imagine grooming your dog and you spot what you think is a little clump of dead white fur around her armpit. So, you go to pluck it out and it doesn't come out like [...]
