Does your dog know how to Heel? Do you want your dog to be able to Heel reliably at your side? There are lots of ways to go about teaching it. Our preference is to teach your dog how to CHOOSE to heel at your side rather than being forced to. Heel can be [...]
When I ask, what is the most important thing you can teach your dog, what comes to mind? For many of my students, a reliable COME or RECALL is the answer.So does your dog have a reliable Come when you call them? If not, what are you waiting for?!Some people have not worked on it [...]
This is a video of a typical training session for Blitzen. My dogs rarely eat directly out of food bowls at meal time, especially as puppies. Meal time is training time at my house. Since I want my dogs - and especially puppies - getting most of their calories from meals and healthy food, [...]
This post is part of our series on raising our Vizsla puppy, Zooka. You can use our posts as a guide to help raise your own puppy, regardless of breed. Keep in mind that different breeds might develop at different rates, so while you can do these things with any breed, your breed might [...]
Zooka and I have training sessions for most of his meals. At 8 months, he eats two meals per day. (We fed three meals per day up until 7 months old.) So we use breakfast and dinner as opportunities to train. Sometimes we work on "serious" stuff like Heel and Stay. Sometimes we work [...]
