Teaching your dog to Heel

2024-02-27T20:59:52+00:00By |Categories: Dog Training|Tags: , , |0 Comments

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 [...]

Teaching a Go To Mat/Place Cue – sending your dog to a specific location

2024-02-01T21:21:51+00:00By |Categories: Dog Training|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

Can you send your dog to a specific location? A kennel, a dog bed, or some other location? What cue do you use to send them to the specific location? What is your expectation when you say that cue? When I first bring a new dog home, whether it is a puppy, an adolescent [...]

Trouble getting a harness on your dog? Harnessing Station, part 2

2024-01-29T19:05:56+00:00By |Categories: Dog Training, The Zooka Tales|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

In our previous post about a Harnessing Station, we discussed in detail how to set up a Harnessing Station for dogs who really struggle with the process of getting a harness put on them. That post/video was about Blitzen. He is VERY sensitive about handling issues. In this video, I discuss how to get [...]

Teaching your dog the “Off” cue

2023-12-02T11:58:28+00:00By |Categories: Dog Training|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Whether your dog is jumping on you, on guests, on the couch, on countertops, or anything else, Off is the cue to use. Some people use Down for this, but if you use Down for anything else you need to be careful that each cue only has one meaning. If Down means to lie down [...]

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