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 [...]
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 [...]
Recently we looked at the difference in shaping with a video from the archives of my shaping progressions. Today I'm sharing 6 keys that I consider are critical for shaping success. If you are new to shaping or want to brush up your skills, Crate [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Recallers 2017 Video Contest Winners Over the past few days you have viewed and voted on 16 wonderful stories from our Recallers students, who shared what Recallers means to them with a short video. The decisions on which video to vote for in each round, [...]
Recallers 2017 Video Contest Grand Finale Welcome to the final round of the 2017 Recallers video contest. The top two video stories in each of the three rounds are meeting here so you can decide the top three winners! All of the videos have been [...]
Recallers 2017 Video Contest Round Three It's Day Three of our Recallers 2017 video contest. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to vote and support the dog lovers who stepped out of their comfort zone and shared their stories with you. If [...]
Recallers 2017 Video Contest Round Two Welcome to Round Two of voting for our Recallers 2017 video contest. If you are just joining us, our online Recallers students created videos sharing their dogs and the story of what Recallers means to them. These short stories [...]
