Our Winter Break

One more week until classes start to get back to normal. What we’ve done: We had a really warm day. I set up my agility  equipment for the first time in 2012.  The dogs got really muddy and had baths. Two days later it was cold, there was deep snow, Read more…

Setting Appropriate Goals

Dog training is very simple. Reinforce behaviors you like. They happen more often. Manage so that inappropriate responses cannot appear or are not likely to appear. Dog training is also very complex: rate of reinforcement, placement of reinforcement, make a training plan, choose the best training plan, types of reinforcers, Read more…