How to Train Your Dog to Stand on Cue
One of the common questions about dog training I am asked is how to teach a dog to stand on cue. Now, there are a couple of different types of stands we can train our dog to do. One is a pop up that is [...]
A Day in the Life of a Susan Garrett Puppy
I’ve written a lot of blog posts about puppies, but I’ve never posted about a typical day for a puppy who lives with me, so that’s what we’re going to look at today. There are four puppies here right now, and one will be with [...]
How to Use the Distraction Intensity Index to Help Your Dog
Distractions! It’s a big topic, and questions about distractions are frequent. I’ve blogged about this before, and today I’m sharing a formula that will help you strategically work through whatever is a distraction for your dog. I call the formula the “Distraction Intensity Index” and [...]
Puppy Preoccupation
Things have been a little weird around here since we welcomed Momentum's litter of four puppies. Weird in a good way, and I'm preoccupied with puppiness. Which might not be a word. There have been a lot of requests for photos, so today my blog [...]
The 3D Model for Dog Training: Duration, Distance, Distraction
When you are training your dog, understanding three key elements is going to help you create brilliant behaviours. The strategic application of duration, distance and distraction will give you the confidence that your dog can perform any behaviour with total understanding anywhere you ask. The [...]
Know Your Dog’s TEMP (Tail, Eyes/Ears, Mouth, Posture)
One of the things people search for here on my blog is TEMP. It's mentioned in several places and in videos, but I've never had a post specifically on T.E.M.P. That changes today! Dogs can’t talk to us, but they can communicate. Knowing what a [...]
Vlogcast: Done Is Better Than Perfect
I figure calling this particular blog entry a "vlogcast" is a good description because it's a blog post with a video of a podcast episode. A podcast is something I've been wanting to do for a long time, and I decided that 2020 would be [...]
Believing in Dogs: Recallers Video Contest 2020 Winners
Recallers 2020 Video Contest Winners The results of our 2020 Recallers Video Contest are in! Over the past week, you have narrowed down the fifteen wonderful videos in our finals to the top three. For a decade now, we have been running a mid-year video [...]
Believing in Dogs: Recallers Video Contest 2020 Grand Finale
Recallers 2020 Video Contest Grand Finale Welcome to the Grand Finale of the 2020 Recallers video contest. The top two video stories in each of the three rounds are meeting here and you get to decide the top three winners! All of the videos have [...]
Believing in Dogs: Recallers Video Contest 2020 Round Three
Recallers 2020 Video Contest Round Three Welcome to Round Three of our video contest where we bring you short video stories from our Recallers, to honour not only all Recallers, but dogs and the people who believe in them the world over. Thank you to [...]
Believing in Dogs: Recallers Video Contest 2020 Round Two
Recallers 2020 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. These stories honour everyone the world over who loves dogs. They are stories of people from all different [...]
Believing in Dogs: Recallers Video Contest 2020 Round One
Recallers 2020 Video Contest Round One Have you ever had a time in your life when you did not think something was possible for you and your dog? That your dog just was not capable of learning what it was you really wanted, or that [...]
