Because it matters how we work with our dogs.
[Sassy_Social_Share title="Share it with someone!"] Good training can’t happen without failures but too many can make it frustrating and no fun for either the human or the dog. If failures are going to happen, why not …
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[Sassy_Social_Share title="Share it with someone!"] Every time we work with our dog, the history of all of our experiences with this dog follow us. For better or for worse, our dog remembers. Your dog’s expectations …
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[Sassy_Social_Share title="Share it with someone!"] Most dog owners make more or less effort to train their dogs. If they are like me, they first learned to train dogs by rote. By that I mean, you followed some …
[Sassy_Social_Share title="Share it with someone!"] Training our dogs can be fun and frustrating, both for us and our dogs. Humans and dogs have very different responses when progress goes slowly or in an unexpected …
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[Sassy_Social_Share title="Share it with someone!"] It wasn’t that long ago that the family dog was often a free-ranging rural or suburban dweller, happily spending his days exploring his fields or neighborhood. But as …
[Sassy_Social_Share title="Share it with someone!"] Good communication with our dogs relies on positive reinforcement, consistency and fairness. When that breaks down, our dogs can get frustrated with us. They can't …
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