I had a great time chatting with Elissa Looney and Whitney Taylor from the Canine High Jinks podcast recently. During our talk, we got into: what obedience looks like. the types of behaviors you and your dog must know. some of the common mistakes people make in their...
I was happy to sit down and talk with Jo Laurens from the Hold The Line podcast recently. Our conversation was centered around: Food motivation – and how to work with dogs which lack it (especially in the field or in high arousal situations) The importance of...
Adding distance to a behavior is one of those things that sounds simple on the surface, but can get sticky in practice. Intellectually, you know that the secret (which isn’t really a secret) is to gradually increment the distance, reinforcing your dog for performing...
It is important to remember, classical conditioning always only goes one direction. Bell -> Food The bell has to predict the food for the bell to cause the dog to drool. Food THEN bell will not have any effect. So if your dog doesn’t like a thing, and you want to...
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