Basic Training Tips
Emotional Learning Our Honest Dogs
Honestly! Dogs are honest, from head to tip of tail. This is my favorite quality about them. They don’t beat around the bush when it comes to telling the world...
Emotional Learning Our Honest Dogs
Honestly! Dogs are honest, from head to tip of tail. This is my favorite quality about them. They don’t beat around the bush when it comes to telling the world...
The Culture of Food: It’s a Human Hangup
Treats, snacks, food or reward: which is it? We, as a culture (or maybe as a species), have a strange hangup with food. Food fills us...
The Culture of Food: It’s a Human Hangup
Treats, snacks, food or reward: which is it? We, as a culture (or maybe as a species), have a strange hangup with food. Food fills us...
I Was Severely Punished
It Worked, and I’ll Never Do It Again, I Promise! I wasn’t the slightest bit interested in entering the AKC Rally competition nearby, but several friends and the instructor of...
I Was Severely Punished
It Worked, and I’ll Never Do It Again, I Promise! I wasn’t the slightest bit interested in entering the AKC Rally competition nearby, but several friends and the instructor of...
The Deferential Equation Learning Boundaries
Puppies! So innocent, so cute, so full of unmitigated joy, such blank slates. Or not… at least not when it comes to “blank slates.” Puppies are surprisingly full of knowledge...
The Deferential Equation Learning Boundaries
Puppies! So innocent, so cute, so full of unmitigated joy, such blank slates. Or not… at least not when it comes to “blank slates.” Puppies are surprisingly full of knowledge...
The One Treat Blunder
Be an Event Planner Instead! She called her dog. After much effort on her part, he finally came. Barely slowing down as he reached her, he grabbed the treat she...
The One Treat Blunder
Be an Event Planner Instead! She called her dog. After much effort on her part, he finally came. Barely slowing down as he reached her, he grabbed the treat she...
The Dominant Confusion “Alpha” ≠ “Aggressive”
I failed him. I failed my dog. We were at a family gathering with one other dog present. It had been a few years since we’d seen Cami (the dog),...
The Dominant Confusion “Alpha” ≠ “Aggressive”
I failed him. I failed my dog. We were at a family gathering with one other dog present. It had been a few years since we’d seen Cami (the dog),...