Katherine Ayres, PhD It happens almost without fail. I am in a private behavior consultation explaining the use of “high value rewards” for training a dog (which are almost always people food, not dog treats you buy at the store), and the owners look at each other then look back at me and say, “Oh… [Read More]
Control Your Dog’s Barking
Christine Hibbard, CTC, CPDT-KA I’m a professional dog trainer so no one is a bigger fan of training your dog than I am. I think that training a dog is fun! What I’ve noticed though is that most owners who call us aren’t interested in training their dogs to DO something. They want their dogs… [Read More]
Thoughts For New Adopters (and all dog owners)
Christine Hibbard, CTC, CPDT The calls come in through out the year but become especially heavy during the summer and Christmas holiday season: “We love our new dog. She’s so sweet but she’s jumping on the children and mouthing them and I’m worried.” “Our new dog is dragging us down the street on walks. The… [Read More]
But Sometimes, It’s Really the People
Greta Kaplan, CPDT, CDBC It’s a truism among people who do what I do that “it’s not the dogs, it’s the people.” In fact, there’s even a good book by that title about running a behavior consulting business. (The author is Nicole Wilde, CPDT). The truism reflects that it’s generally pretty easy to get the… [Read More]
Flyball Is Not a Ball Game
Greta Kaplan, CPDT, CDBC If you’d like to hear Cindy Lewis-Bruckart from Regarding Rover interview me (Greta Kaplan) about the sport of flyball, head over to blogtalkradio to listen. Now, on with the rest of the post… I teach and coach flyball, a fun dog sport that is not often shown on TV, so most… [Read More]
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