Recallers 2018 Video Contest Round Three Welcome to Round Three of our video contest. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to vote and support the dog lovers who put their hearts into sharing their stories. If you have not had a chance to view and vote for the videos in Round One […]
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Recallers 2018 Video Contest Round Two If you have just joined us, we are sharing videos from our Recallers members for you to view and vote on. We LOVE celebrating dogs and the people who care for them by highlighting their stories. The videos represent many thousands of people and dogs the world over. Today […]
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Recallers 2018 Video Contest Round One When Recallers first opened in 2008, it pioneered online dog training, and has become a wildly popular and much-loved foundation resource for people and dogs around the globe. But, as anyone who has ever been part of our Recallers community will tell you… it is so much more than […]
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What is it that your dog’s behaviour is trying to tell you? What is appropriate communication by your dog, and by you? In dogs, just like in humans, there are two types of responses: emotional and thoughtful. So what’s the difference and how do you deal with them? I’ve put together a video from a […]
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Many years ago I introduced a game that has changed the lives of many thousands of people and their dogs the world over. It’s the key building block to everything I teach in dog training. That game is ItsYerChoice (IYC). This is the game that will really shift your dog’s thought processes. Once you introduce […]
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Have you ever taken a moment to try and see the agility course from your dog’s perspective? The colours, the obstacle placement, the view our dogs see from their level? (Yep, this might mean getting on all fours!) I recently did this after reading a great article written by Nicki Gurr from AniMotion Agility. Nicki […]
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Bullying. It’s not something you quickly associate with dog training, but it happens all too often. I was walking my dogs recently on a cold winter’s day… and I started to reflect on the dip in mood that happens to a lot of people in the cold weather… Many of us respond to it differently, […]
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I think we should collectively agree about something. Here it is; relationships are not actually the way they are portrayed in the movies. If you attempt to smack your significant other across the face during an argument, don’t count on it ending up in some mushy romantic scene on the closest sofa. Likewise, while playing […]
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First Swagger and I would like to thank this amazing community. xoxo It is because of all of the feedback I received from readers of this blog and our Facebook page, that I have some encouraging news to report today. No, Swagger isn’t miraculously cured… but he is back to full activity and that gives […]
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It is something no one should ever have to hear about their not yet 7-year-old dog. I froze and my mind went whirling, I suddenly found it difficult to get out all of the questions that were racing through my head. As my Uber driver was pulling into Los Angeles Airport, I was talking to Kim […]
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