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establishing communication with your dog
Should You Be Thinking About Puppy Behavior Training Differently?
What do You Expect from Your Puppy? In your mind, you paint a picture of all the things you’d like to do with your dog, the way your dog is…
The problem with the word “positive”
Whatever “well behaved” means to you, your dog will learn which behaviors are acceptable and which are not. After all, as much as we love them, as close as they…
Summer update
This is “Gus”. He is about 5 months old now and has been living with his family for 7 or 8 weeks. I was told that he got very aroused…
Fixing and correcting are not synonymous
My old violin teacher who wasn’t exactly a positive person had a favorite saying: If you have a bad habit you cannot get rid of it by “doing it less”.…
Highly questionable ethics
Hero FBI dog, killed by upstate N.Y. gunman, to be commemorated at agency headquarters Ape, the 2-year-old Czech German Shepherd, was the first to enter the abandoned bar where madman…
What I love about reward based teaching for dogs
In a nutshell: There is no real reason for the dog not to follow your suggestions because what you are offering is always the best choice for the dog. I…
Going with the flow
I am working with a blind rescue pointer named Georgie. Georgie He has been at his new home for about 6 weeks now. He has learned to walk the stairs,…
Dogs and Dominance
The myth of the dominant dog must be one of the top 10 in “stickiest erroneous beliefs”. I wonder if its appeal lies in an inherent need to feel superior…