For those who follow us on Facebook, you know I promised to share some of what I heard at the Association of Pet Dog Trainers Annual Conference that I attended in mid-October. Here is my first in a series of reports on that conference. The topic: dog parks. Dog parks are all the rage these [...]
While most of the books I read are about dogs, I also do a lot of reading about human behavior. Why? Because while I am a dog trainer and behavior consultant, much of my work really is with the human side of the partnership. So the better I am able to understand both ends of [...]
The Association of Pet Dog Trainers is a professional organization with over 6,000 members worldwide and is focused on educating trainers. Their annual conference draws around 1,500 attendees along with other educational opportunities such as webinars and their bimonthly publication, The APDT Chronicle of the Dog. My article titled Default Behaviors was published in the May/June 2012 Chronicle. [...]
