Greta Kaplan, CPDT, CDBC Last week I traveled to Lake Tahoe to give a half-day presentation on Control Unleashed at the Entlefest. I realize this requires some translation. The Entlefest is the annual national breed club meeting for the National Entelbucher Mountain Dog Association. An Entlebucher (Entlebuch Sennenhund) is one of the four Swiss Mountain… [Read More]
Pet Positive: Gentler Methods of Dog Training Come to Seattle
Christine Hibbard, CTC, CPDT Seattle Woman Magazine featured me and one of my clients for an article in their February issue titled Pet Positive: Gentler Methods of Dog Training Come to Seattle. The magazine did a very nice job of comparing and contrasting traditional (coercion based) methods of dog training with the positive reinforcement based… [Read More]
Control Unleashed: Rule Structures for Dogs
Greta Kaplan, CPDT, CDBC I have been engaged in an effort to find an acceptable way to explain to my clients how to provide structure and predictability to their dogs in a way that would make their dogs comfortably willing to abide by human rules. I explained that I’m uncomfortable when such programs invoke the… [Read More]
How Often Should You Train Your Dog?
James Ha, PhD, CAAB Here’s a question for all of you dog trainers (and that should be just about everyone who has a dog)… how often should you train a dog? Many of us in this business would, of course, say, “as often as possible… please!” But that is not quite what I mean: from… [Read More]
Chicken Camp, Part 3
Greta Kaplan, CPDT Amy and I had signed up for sessions 2 and 3 back-to-back. This was 12 days of class with a 3-day break. All this learning is tiring, and session 3 is the longest of the sessions at 7 days. Still, it was fun and stands out in my memory. Our task was… [Read More]