You have to be the most interesting thing in the environment to your dog. If your dog is running away from you, what does that say about your relationship with your dog? Why should your dog want to hang out with you? What reason does the dog have to stay by your side? There is […]
Prong collars are controversial training tools. I believe, that people need to educate themselves about prong collars. When you don’t have experience training a dog with a prong collar, you should not use it, until you have sought professional help. I have never seen an injury with the prong collars we use. I am not […]
There are eight psychological learning principles that are generally applied to the human learning experience which are used to better understand and improve a student’s learning experience. These principles, however, can also be used to improve the time we spend training our dogs. Let’s take a look at how these principles can be applied to […]
A dog who guards food, toys, beds or other tangible items is resource guarding. He may growl or bark, often at unpredictable times, when other dogs or people come to close to the resource. In some cases, the dog will lie close to the item and keep others from it, in other cases, a […]
