[Sassy_Social_Share title="Share it with someone!"] Sometimes the most important thing we can do when we are training our dog is...nothing. How else will we find out what our dog knows if we don't stop every once and a …
The Costs of Correcting Your Dog
[Sassy_Social_Share title="Share it with someone!"] In the dog training world, "correction" has a special meaning. What the term means depends very much on who you ask. As I learned it, a "correction" doesn't really …
Simple Yet Profound Ways to Get Better Behaviour from Your Dog
[Sassy_Social_Share title="Share it with someone!"] Perhaps the most difficult part of changing the way we work with our dogs was changing how we think about them. Moving to reward based training with Mark and Reward …
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Canine Nation Articles
For both dog lovers and dog trainers alike, the Canine Nation articles explore the very human challenges we face in teaching and communicating with our dogs. Originally written for the online magazine Life As A Human, …
There are dogs and there are writers…
One of the most wonderful things about having dogs is that we get to meet some pretty amazing people through the dogs. Whether we are just out for a walk or taking part in some organized activity like agility or training …
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What Do You Believe About Dogs?
"Science doesn't give a shit what you believe!" That's one of my favourite t-shirt sayings. Mostly because it's a great reminder of how easy it is to fool myself into believing what I want to believe rather than what …
