Easy Activity – Close a Door
July 9, 2021
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
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Easy Activity – Calisthenics
July 8, 2021
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
Easy Activity – Snuffle Mat
July 4, 2021
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
Easy Activity – Hand Touch
July 3, 2021
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
Easy Activity – Tug O’ War
July 1, 2021
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
Dog with Asperger’s Syndrome
July 1, 2021
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
Daylight Saving Time
July 1, 2021
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
Working from Home – Dealing with Canine Interruptions
June 30, 2021
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
About Dog Learning
May 29, 2021
Do you ever think about how your dog learns some things quickly, and others not? How the heck did he nearly instantly learn the sound of
Examining Dog Training Methods
May 21, 2021
Over the course of my 40+ year career as a professional dog trainer, I’ve gone through two major changes of training method. My career started
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