Tips for starting your life together Getting started off right with your new puppy jump starts the bonding process that establishes your lifelong relationship with your dog. Puppies are wondrous creatures that are learning every waking moment of their lives. Much like a dry sponge, your puppy’s brain is soaking up information, drip by drip. Positively […]
Working from Home – Dealing with Canine Interruptions
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. Even though life has started to return to “normal,” many people continue to work from home. And they have a problem: The dog! Dogs […]
Easy Activity – Teaching a Dog to Target
A simple, fun, foundation behavior. Similar to Hand Targeting, Wendy, All Dogs Gym’s Director of Training, demonstrates getting started with several of her own dogs—shaping the dog to nose-touch a target. This is one of the ways to start shaping behaviors—so much fun, and so useful for teaching different behaviors! As you’ll see in Wendy’s the […]
Easy Activity – Shaping Behaviors
Shaping behavior is also called “successive approximation.” It is moving a behavior in small (even tiny) increments getting closer and closer to the ultimate goal behavior. The trainer communicates with the dog using a “mark”—which can be a click or other sound, or a word such as “yes” or “good.” The mark says “That behavior… […]
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