“Time to prove yourself!”
Imagine that you are taking a class with your dog. Some of the participants are very experienced, others have some experience, someone is completely new to the whole thing, have just begun this training and are new owners of a retrieving breed. Some know each other...Just laugh it off
One of the most important building blocks in our training philosophy is that we are looking for the good stuff that the dog does so that we can reward that. There’s something a little magical about that, because it rubs off on everything. Suddenly you notice...Oh my God, I’ve become a “lumper”
“Be a splitter not a lumper”. A pithy saying by Bob Bailey , so established in the world we might call the “clicker world” that we can say to one another “Oh my, I think I have become a lumper!” or “I don’t want to lump behavior...Your whistle seems great – can I have it?
I’ve received that question a couple of times when my dogs have sat down really promptly at the stop whistle or responded with lightening speed to the recall whistle. If it had been as simple as selling magic whistles, I’d become rich 😉 , but as we all...Choose your cues with care – and teach them even more carefully!
Just as it doesn’t matter which whistle you choose it doesn’t matter which other cues you choose to use with your dog. The important thing is that you teach the dog exactly what each cue means. For example, some people want to use the dog’s name as a...I thought we would use the clicker more #ThrowBackThursday
Something we talk a lot about is that the clicker isn’t the most important thing in the clicker training philosophy #ThrowBackThursday “I Thought We Would Use the Clicker More” Retrieving for All Occasions - Foundations for Excellence in Gun Dog TrainingShare...What are you training for?
I often hear people saying “well, that’s a mark, you shouldn’t cast your dog”. We had a discussion about it as late as this weekend when I attended a course, and it was also discussed on the working test that Lena and I were at on Good Friday....When sports collide
Sometimes I get the question if I am not worried that my different dog sports are going to collide with each other. Am I not running the risk of confusing my dog; won’t it mix up what to do? Tassla and I did done a lot of competitive obedience younger. For a...Self-control – how much does it cost?
A few years ago, Jenny Nyberg, a neuroscientist at the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology at the University of Gothenburg, wrote a very interesting article about what self-control costs. It was published by DogEductus, a Swedish dog training company focusing on...Featured Products
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