Pillar 3: Mastering Purpose Driven Activities for Training Dogs, Place
WALKING, TETHERING, PLAYING, PLACE This is what you are doing when your dog is not in your crate. Dogs love order, and when you practice leadership and boundaries in these activities you are building a solid foundation with your dog. If you need a refresher on our...
Understanding Nervous and Anxious Dog Behavior
Dogs are strangers in a strange land, called HUMANLAND and they are doing their best to navigate it. There are strange smells, strange sights, strange sounds, strange energy, strange everything. Some dogs are simply hyper-aware of this world and it can be unsettling...
Don’t Be A Tool Fool
Tools can get a bad rap, through no fault of their own. There is an old saying in dog training land that says, “It’s not the tool…it’s the fool”. Tools have no value in and of themselves, it is the hands that use them that determine their effectiveness and humanness....
Why is my dog so skittish?
If you own a doodle of any kind, it is highly likely that you will experience a moment or period when your dog startles, acts shy, is skittish, or makes a vocal noise. Yep, it’s going to happen, at one time or another. There are actual fear periods that a dog goes...
