Tag: foundation training
How Good Is Your Glue?

What’s Missing In Our Foundation Dog Training ? The laws of science have taught us all how to use reinforcement to shape our dogs’ responses. As we train a dog we are actually building behaviour, like a little girl with her glue gun making crafts or . . . if you were a little girl with [...]
Read moreGetting Close!

Okay today is the day. My first ever no charge live webinar. I know we are just about at capacity in the 8:30 pm call so if you are interested in hearing about the Say Yes foundation program please don’t sit on this because I will not be making this webinar available for public …
Read moreIs Good Dog Training Static or Dynamic?

We just wrapped up four days of puppy and young dog training. It started with our two day Advances in Dog Training (AiDT) and then rolled right into Critical Elements (the camp formerly known as puppy camp:)). As of January 2010 we now been honouring a policy that allows anyone that has attended AiDT once [...]
Read moreCrate Games, it is not just for breakfast anymore.

I had small workshop here yesterday with 9, mostly adolescent dogs, and their handlers. It went quite well with a few “aah ha” moments and the odd “oh my” thrown in to balance things out. We started the day with some grids and body awareness exercises and then finished up the afternoon with some handling [...]
Read moreLast Day of Skill Camp

For the last five days we have had a keen group of campers in for Skills Camp. This camp is much like puppy camp but in more detail. We can not expect young puppies to work for 5 days like these olders ones, so puppy camp is only 3 days. Even for the older dog, [...]
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