Category: Dog Training: Skills
A Critical Key To Training the Running Contact?
I have had a few of you email me privately and one post to my blog why I thought a “fool-proof method of running contacts was unlikely.” I don’t pretend to have all of the dog training answers and I am not a pessimist about ANYTHING. However, I do believe I have a pretty good [...]
Read more2×2 Weave Pole Training with a Food Only Motivated Dog
Now that there are so many of you excelling with the 2×2 process I thought I would answer a few questions that you have sent in about training dogs that are not toy motivated. First of all yes, this method works well with all dogs, regardless of what motivates them! As I outlined in my 2×2 [...]
Read moreDoggie Diction
I talk to me dogs. I don’t mean I talk to my dogs the way normal people do, saying things like – ”yeah boy, get the stick”. I mean I talk to them like I expect, at any moment, they are about to answer back. I don’t talk this way all the time, but for important things [...]
Read moreRunning the "baby" dog
Well Feature and I had a chance to get to know each other better as a dog and handler team while we were in Florida. First of all, we worked together at camp for three days and then we had two weekends of trialing. I have to say bringing out a new dog is one [...]
Read moreHeading Home
Well all good things must come to an end and so we must leave the sunny south and head back home. We had a great time in Florida, topped off with one of my favorite trials of the year the “Dog-Gone-it!” trial in Orlando. I must take this opportunity to encourage all of you all [...]
Read moreContacts and Weave Camp
This past weekend I did a Contacts and Weave workshop and we had an awesome group. It didn’t hurt that 12 of the 14 handlers had been to multiple camps here at Say Yes at one time or another. Teaching people that already have a good understanding of the system makes my job a lot [...]
Read moreEducational, Entertaining or Inspiring
Educational, entertaining or inspiring. That has been a goal of my blog writing. I want visiting here to be a positive experience, where you go away feeling good about yourself, your dogs or life in general. I am not a big “blog” reader myself, but of the few that I have read I have found [...]
Read moreQ & A 3. More talk on 2×2 weave training
Hi all, I trust you are all enjoying a great holiday season with your friends and family. John and I went to one of my brother for Christmas dinner last night. We had a blast. My sister-in-law Pat, made about a zillion vegetable dishes for me, and lucky John was in his glory, as Pat [...]
Read moreTechnogeek back to Answer Questions
Here I go again, an entire q&a session devoted entirely to your weave pole training questions. Enjoy! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JE6Hb5ZGmk]
Read moreDissecting Weaving, the new DVD & I Didn't Forget
Okay, before I settle into answering the weave questions that have come in, I thought today I would write about the new DVD and what brought me around to the 2×2 method. It is a long entry, I hope it doesn’t come off as being propagandacious to any of you. I guess, at the center [...]
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