Learning calm exits help build patience, eye contact, self control and human/dog connection. We achieved this using consequences; how dogs learn!
Puppy Training
Puppy training starts early. Use this easy exercise to build connection and to intro placement for leash walking.
Dog needs a farm! Really?
In how many rehoming ads have you read …’Great dog for sale. Needs a farm or large property to run.’? Its so common to see this statement in rehoming advertisements. Unless the dog is in fact a working/guarding breed of livestock such as an Anatolian Shepard or Great Pyrenees and instinctually would probably be happier outside in a large space … Read More
Dog training: Patience and Eye Contact
You can start building patience and boundaries each time you feed your dog.
‘You’re soft’. Thank you!!
I’ve been told a time or two that I’m soft with dogs. It was meant in kindness but the intention was to suggest that I needed to be harder on the dogs. I used to be offended and hurt by this comment. I thought I must be doing something wrong! But my instincts told me I was doing just fine … Read More
Pressure on +R Dog Training: Don’t give in to it.
In 2001, I wasn’t as knowledgeable about dog behavior as I am now or as confident so during a visit with a friend’s dog, a dog that had gone after my puppy on more than one occasion, I caved into the pressure of others around me; I allowed the dogs to visit without me in the vicinity. What I thought … Read More