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The Daily Daisy: Conclusion

The Daily Daisy: Conclusion

Daisy has found her forever home. She has a German Shepherd to play with regularly, and her mom walks a mile every morning. Since that's all she would walk with me, this is perfect. Her family had suddenly lost their older dog to cancer, Daisy is happily filling the...

resilience in dogs

resilience in dogs

I am finding myself using this word often these days. What is resilience in dogs and why am I using this term so much? Resilience dictionary definition: the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness When working with dogs, this is a term that I use when...

Your Dogs Social Skills

Your Dogs Social Skills As your dog gets older their preferences for certain things will change. This is also true in humans. A 5 year old does not like the same things as an 11 year old, and by the time you get to 30 you have a whole new perspective of life. Often,...

The art of doing nothing

When you want your dog doing nothing The gap of time between giving information to your dog and them deciding on a behavior is where most of our dogs chose poorly. It's in that space of time that bad decisions happen, you get frustrated, or overwhelmed and don’t have...

Dog Jobs: Getting Promoted

Now that you have determined what you dog knows, you have created a training plan for the things he didn’t know, and you can start to use those things to give your dog information when he needs it.  Find one area where you are telling your dog “No.” First, “No” does...

Give your dog a job: First Evaluation

Give your dog a job: First Evaluation You have completed your puppy class or basic obedience class, and those skills are just not transferring to home life. What happens when your dog “knows stuff” but you are still having some behavior challenges. This is your dog's...

Delayed Reinforcement

Fun fact about me: I go to the gym at OrangeTheory a few times a week (usually). One of the things I love most about my gym is that I get a report at the end of every class with a bunch of statistics about my workout. Yesterday my heart rate monitor died right at the...