Robert Milner is becoming more well known for his positive training interest for retrievers.This book, however, was published almost ten years ago and isn’t as positive as he is now. Retreiver Trainingback to basics approach is like a lot of Read more…
Canine Tracking by Don Abney is one of the oddest dog books I’ve ever read. And I’ve read a lot of dog books. It gets bonus points for being one of the very few (if only?) books I’ve ever seen Read more…
I don’t know if it was because I had an almost normal amount of sleep for the first time in 10 days or if the information from vet conference was finally seeping into my head, or if it was just Read more…
I am sitting at school. And I just noticed I have a waffle in my back pocket. And fishy dogfood in my coat pocket. High Value At a recent seminar, Kathy Sdao talked quite a bit about how dogs don’t Read more…
2 days of Kathy Sdao. 2 days of Ken Ramirez. Throw in school and work and out-of-the-area friends and I’m absolutely exhausted. I took so many notes. My hands were hurting (especially the day I didn’t have my super fancy Read more…
I’ve just had two days of Kathy Sdao talks at a vet conference. And wow! I’ve only previously been to two of her lectures at ClickerExpo. It was a great experience, not only does she have a ton to say, Read more…
Well, a few weeks less. Blaze is now officially ten years old. That’s a lot time. Ten years ago my life was completely different. It’s especially cool to spend his birthday with a great friend who moved away just months Read more…
Typically we tell students to use high value reinforcers, especially in class, especially in distracting environments, and especially for super important behaviors. We talk about how to determine what is how value and to be clever and to check and Read more…
We went to the 4-H Judging Clinic on Saturday, it was fun to see a lot of people from all over. One of the more exciting was someone I had seen at ClickerExpo last March….she has a fabulous golden and Read more…
Tomorrow Griffin and I will be helping with a Judging Clinic as part of the 4-H Committee. I’m not sure how much we’ll do or be asked to do or wish we could do… but we will get in some Read more…