Stoni & Shelby circa mid 1990's Last week we looked at luring vs shaping, so it's only fair that this week we are looking at shaping vs shaping. Recently in one of our Inner Circle coaching calls, we were discussing shaping, successive approximations, [...]
When you are training your dog, it can seem easy to pull out a cookie and lure your dog to do something. But you need to ask yourself what learning will be taking place in the dog's mind. Generally, it is “do nothing and I [...]
A puppy's mind is fully capable of learning at an early age, so there is no need to consider putting off his or her education. What we do need to consider is how that education happens. My puppy controls when we move ahead to the [...]
The Say Yes Team has taken over Susan's blog for a day, as we have news to share ... great news, good news and some bad news. [Update November 04, 2018] Our free training series has ended now, but if you visit any link below [...]
As you may know, I have recently returned from the FCI Agility World Championships in Sweden. When travelling home, I decided I wanted to document my experience as a way of running a ‘clarity check’ for Momentum and me as an agility team. No matter [...]
Shelby with a beloved reward, a rock, at the 1998 USDAA GP Nationals. I've been blogging about dog training, dog behaviour, dog agility and dogs in general, with a few diversions, for many years now .... far more years than I probably thought [...]
You know, people think I've been really lucky with the dogs that I've owned, and the success each of those dogs has achieved, but the truth is I've worked really hard for a lot of years and over the course of time I've found that [...]
A few weeks ago we shared my article on "How to Create a Motivating Toy" here on my blog to make it easily accessible. Today we have our top "Say Yes Training Reminders" for you. If you have been following my blog for some time [...]
Last week on my blog we looked at when to add a cue to the behaviours you are training with your dog. This week we look at three different types of verbal markers. What marker you choose and how you use it can help or [...]
So often people ask me: "When do I add a cue?" As a guide, when we can predict our dog will perform a behaviour, and we love the way he is performing that behaviour, we can put a cue on it. Crate Games is good [...]
Below is an article that I wrote many years ago... it's one that you may be familiar with and may have even shared with your dog training buddies or students. But, it has never been on my blog! So here we have it, the article [...]
The easy path in life is to complain about the breaks someone else got that you didn't, the challenges you are facing, the lack of resources, the lack of opportunities, but where does that get you? You end up in exactly the same place but [...]
