We’ve only known each other a week. I know that as an active puppy he will be getting more bitey and jumpy as most young puppies are. We’re working on alternate behaviors, preventing him from having as many opportunities to practice unwanted behavior and minimizing reinforcement when he does try Read more…
Some dogs have a hard time transitioning from an indoor environment (house and/or group class) to focusing outdoors. Even though our dogs spend most of the time with us indoors – we do need them to be able to focus and listen when outside for when we’re on walks, playing, Read more…
We went to Minnesota again to visit the excellent rehab vet and help our friend Megan with a work project. The travel went well and once we actually left, the traveling was more relaxed than our first trip. We attempted to stop at state parks in Wisconsin but apparently you Read more…
For the past almost-two-weeks we’ve had Fanny here for an obedience seminar. It was great, we had so much fun and I’m very happy with all the training I accomplished with Griffin. We had quite a few people who were able to attend most of the 10 days (a day Read more…
A big part of the big trip was to get in a lot of training time. It was very nice to get to spend so much time with Griffin and in many ways it was a lot easier to do training when I wasn’t teaching training classes for hours each Read more…
During my trip I got to see many different dog activities and training. Here are few notes about what we did, learned, and observed Herding: Early on in my trip I was at a herding seminar. The dogs made amazing progress in two days, it was impressive how the training progressed Read more…
We’re home! It’s so hard to believe that yesterday morning we were walking not just in another country, but on another continent than where we ended our day. At the beginning of this year I didn’t even have a passport – and now my dog and I both do! I was Read more…
Long seminars are the best kind of training seminars. In 2-3 days you just barely get to understand the material, you maybe make a bit of progress, you start to get work done, and you start to get to know the presenter and attendees. Then everyone goes home. At longer Read more…
This book has been on my table for a year now. It’s a giant book with chapters on everything from cars to noises to muzzle training. There are chapters on almost everything that a dog could be nervous about and chapters on all the training and management strategies/tools that a Read more…
This comes up regularly in class. Ultimately, many people decide to just let their pets up. If the concern was hair, they get washable covers. If the concern was injury for a small or older dog jumping on and off, they get those little stairs or put a nice Read more…