Gail's Blog
“Zen” Dog Training. In addition to behaviors that are easily taught in your daily interactions with your dog (in “Teaching Self-Control”), here are a couple that require some specific training…
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A program for all dogs. Our Earning Life’s Rewards program is for puppies and dogs of all ages. It’s for dogs who need training, for pushy dogs, for dogs that…
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A Simple Fun Behavior. Target training is the first step to teaching your dog to close doors – starting with a cabinet door. Once you’ve done Step 1 – nose…
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A simple, fun behavior. Here’s a simple way to exercise your dog in a small space: Calisthenics—which Larry and Gail demonstrate. Once your dog knows both cues for both sit…
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A toy to keep your dog entertained. Do you have a snuffle mat for your dog? The snuffle mat consists of fleece strips tied on to a rubber mat with holes in it. The loose ends…
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A Simple, Fun Behavior The Hand Touch is one of our favorite, most useful foundation behaviors. We hope you enjoy the video. This was originally published as “All Dogs Alchemy”:…
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A fun game to play with your dog. We love this game—and many dogs do, too! It’s a great way for your dog to release energy, it’s fun for kids…
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Some behaviors can’t be trained away. I have long thought that my Chinook, Larry, is on the autism spectrum. A recent event really drove home what I’ve suspected for years—Larry…
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Changing clocks affects our dogs. Eastern Standard Time (turning the clocks back) started a few days ago. In the past four days, the dogs woke me an hour earlier than…
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During the Covid-19 quarantine, many people worked from home. At the time, we heard a problem shared by people who were working from home and/or home schooling with their kids.…
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