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Back to all postsCreating a Resilient Mentally Tough Adult Dog
As I look around at the kid's soccer games where no team wins, I wonder what this result will look…
Rehabbing a Problematic Dog: Trials and Tribulations from BootCamp
Rehabbing a Problematic Dog: Trials and Tribulations from BootCamp My students and I just spent four days walking and training.…
Socializing Your Puppy: how it should look
The Biggest Mistake Of All: PUPPY SOCIALIZATION. Dogs need to be socialized. That means that dogs need to SEE the world,…
Failing Dogs; Training a Behaviour, but not the Mind
Can we train a behaviour, do a great job with a happy, willing dog, yet leave that very same dog…
Feel and Timing: The only dog obedience tools that we
A tool is a tool. It doesn't matter the quality of a hammer or drill, it matters the quality of…
Aggression in the Small Breeds
Aggression In The Small Breeds: When I work with big strong dogs with aggression, their owners have almost always tried…
The Domestics of Leash Walking
A skill I teach in both Pet Manners, and Growl, that will change a dog more than any tool or…
Coming When Called – Obedience Training ‘come’ in Victoria, BC
Coming Back When Called Coming back when called is probably the most important thing for a pet dog. And, probably…
The Four Reasons Dogs Misbehave
1. Lack of understanding Some communication is so unclear that it is a miracle that dogs are able to meet…
