Household Rules For Your Dog
Does your dog have a reliable Come / Recall?
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 [...]
A Joxer Story: Everyone, Including Dogs, Learns at Their Own Pace
Everyone learns at their own pace. No one clarified that better for me than my Smooth Coat Collie, Joxer. I adopted Joxer through a Collie rescue group in October of 2001. He had been in rescue for eight months when I adopted him. They believed he was in the 2 to 3 year old range. [...]
Boredom
This article is part of our E-book, ASK THE TRAINER: Answers to common questions about dog training and behavior issues, including jumping, leash manners, aggression, fearfulness, and more.   Question: If we leave our dog alone for more than a few hours, he becomes destructive. What can [...]
Helping Your Dog Refocus with the Up & Down Game
Helping our dogs to return focus to us can be done in many different ways. One of those is the Up and Down Pattern Game from Leslie McDevitt. My number one request might very well be helping dogs to listen when "distractions" are present. That might pretty much cover just about everything I do as [...]