How To Embrace Videoing Your Dog Training
My mentor, the iconic Bob Bailey, once told me that he believes the most important advancement in the world of animal training during his illustrious career was the advancement of the simplicity of video. What do the words “video your training” mean for you? Are they words you don’t want to hear, or words you […]
Continue readingVlog: Trying Something New (Games For You, Games For Your Dog)
For the past week or so I’ve been trying something new. It’s no secret that I love playing games with my dogs and I love seeing dogs learn through games. There’s a lot of dog training information that I’ve wanted to share with you that I’m confident you would be interested in, so I thought […]
Continue readingVlog: Toning Up On Cue Clarity (Hearing The Sirens)
Late last year I ran a ‘clarity check’ for Momentum and me as an agility team. You can read how I did this clarity check on my post “Does your dog have a CUE… or NO Clue?”. One of the things I reviewed was the verbal cues I use and the tone of the cues. […]
Continue readingThe Secret Sauce For Enthusiasm … Balance Breaks!
Fun is an essential ingredient to training success for you and your dog, and the secret sauce to maintaining enthusiasm and engagement in a training session is to take a break. We call these “balance breaks” and also use “reset cookies”. It might seem counter-intuitive to break your training session at first, but jump in […]
Continue readingPositive Dog Training and the Difference in Shaping
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, and the role of failure in dog training (we may geek out a bit on dog training in […]
Continue readingLurers Anonymous (Luring vs Shaping)
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 will get rewarded for it”. Luring can take away the […]
Continue readingVlog: How to Teach a Puppy to Retrieve
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 next level of difficulty in our training by the success […]
Continue readingLIVE WEBINAR: How to Increase the Speed Your Agility Dog Learns
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 you can register to be notified of any new upcoming […]
Continue readingDoes your dog have a CUE… or NO Clue?
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 what you have accomplished; it is always a good thing […]
Continue readingWhat’s a Reward for Your Dog? List of Reinforcers
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 when I wrote my first ever blog post. Over the years the topic of reinforcement has featured in many of my posts. In 2009 I […]
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