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 [...]
The topic of housetraining is one that comes up many times a day the world over when a new puppy or rescue dog joins a home. As it's a question we see a lot, I thought I'd do a blog post with the inside scoop [...]
To call this thing we do "dog training" is a huge disservice to dogs. We are not "training" we are "educating" and just like with children, education starts in kindergarten and ascends onward from there only with understanding. The number one reason dogs get into [...]
This Vlog post is a particularly important one if you live with a dog. If you are struggling with a behaviour that you'd like to change, then you will want to know about your dog’s state, and how that state affects the behaviour you want [...]
Dogs and Firework Celebrations are NOT a great combination, however, there are ways we can help to lessen the trauma experienced by our dogs. Why Do Fireworks Scare Dogs? They are LOUD and a dog’s sense of hearing is acute! They are unpredictable so they [...]
