Positive Reinforcement Isn’t For All
Positive Reinforcement Isn’t For All Yep, you just read that correctly. Positive reinforcement isn’t for everyone, but not for the reasons many people think. I firmly believe that dogs do not need to...
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What’s In Your Wine Glass?
What’s In Your Dog’s Wine Glass? On Monday I published a post about Trigger Stacking and created a graphic using wine glasses to help get my point across. It occurred to me that it was actually quite...
View ArticleGo Faster! More Cookies!
Go Faster! More Cookies! I spent part of the weekend trying to find a link to a study that I read years ago that looked at the skills/mechanics trainers used more effectively than average pet owners....
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Weaning Off Of Treats
Weaning Off Of Treats One of the first things that many students ask me is about when they can “stop using all the treats.” I will be honest and say that for most behaviors, I don’t completely wean...
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Practical Approach to Punishment
Practical Approach to Punishment I have been thinking for a while about how to approach writing a blog about physical punishment that was more pragmatic and less emotional. I think a lot of times the...
View ArticleDon’t Think, Just Do
Don’t Think, Just Do Last week I met up with a friend to go on an adventure and then out to lunch. With road conditions potentially changing, we opted to ride in her 4-wheel drive SUV instead of my...
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Freezing Temps–Fired Up Dogs!
Freezing Temps–Fired Up Dogs! It’s Monday night at 10pm or so and it’s already -6F air temp with windchill of -25F. Today’s temps dropped like a rock and it was 0F by this afternoon. We are lucky...
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Throwback Thursday–Gotta Buy Into Training
Gotta Buy Into Training–Throwback Thursday Originally posed on 10/18/11 How many times have you heard “I’ve tried everything to get my dog to …”? I think I must hear something to that effect more than...
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The Power of Choice
The Power of Choice During this most recent stretch of frigid (though not quite the ‘extreme cold’ of a month ago), I have had to improvise the activities happening with my mid-day dog walking clients....
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Reflecting on raising oswin
Reflecting on Raising Oswin Oswin’s first full day home with me! Raising puppies is hard–plain and simple. It takes an incredible amount of work to simply raise a well-adjusted dog, but when you are...
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