Teach your dog to go to bed and stay there!
Teaching your dog to understand the words 'Go to bed' to mean: 'When I hear those words, I go to my bed, relax and stay there until...
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Raising confident puppies, with brakes!
This is a video of a litter of pups out of Mess, the Viszla, by a fox red lab Dad called Tag. Mess is in the house having a relax while...
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The totally UNglamorous power, of repetition.
The trouble with animal training, is that they learn really, really fast. Whether we meant them to learn that thing or not, they will...
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Dogs that bite and kill.
It was with desperate sadness that I read about the ten year old boy, Jack Lis, who lost his life to a dog in a house he walked into, in...
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Rewards and motivators.
The easiest way to nurture a rewarding relationship with any animal is to work out what it is they need, want, enjoy and like and use...
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Harmony and having a plan.
Animals seem to find it easiest to relax when their largely unflappable people have a plan. I have a Viszla (Mess), who is an...
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Real world recall....
The feeling of releasing a dog you can't QUITE rely on to come back when asked is tense making for good reason. If you're reliability...
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Socialisation, so what is it?
Imagine you are an English speaker, dropped off in Russia in the night, into a family environment and put in a room alone, with the door...
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Self control in dogs, or, choose your puppy's breeder very carefully :)
Self control, the ability to moderate one's own behaviour given circumstance or environmental change, isn't something I see very often...
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Respect, attention and understanding.
Maybe...maybe, we don't need to know what respect is, but instead to consider how to hold another being's attention, how to communicate...
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The pressure of 'training' and the harmony of travel.
An awful lot of animals feel the pressure of human expectation as exactly that, pressure. Our focus, our waiting for a response, our...
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Rewarded behaviour is more often seen, or, behaviour that is often seen is being rewarded.
We all know the basics of teaching a dog something, right? Give the dog a treat when he sits, he'll know sitting got him the treat, he...
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The first few days with a new puppy.
Maybe it's been a minute since you raised a dog, or maybe you're a first timer, or maybe you're just interested in how someone else might...
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The sliding axis of respect and fear.
More semantics! Although fear and respect live along the same sliding axis of relationship dyads, there are a few principles that are...
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The semantics of animal training :)
At its base level, communicating with animals is fairly simple on a one to one basis. Needs must be met, comfort and safety assured, fear...
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Pressure and Release.
Pressure is the force that drives all behavioural and evolutionary change on earth. From bad weather that motivates animals to seek...
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What is separation anxiety?
For me, this is a term given to a collection of behaviours a dog displays when they haven't been taught what to do with solid physical...
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The difference between training/learning and control.
When we see animals with people, they can seem to be one of two things - compliant and engaged with their person, or the opposite. Their...
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The beauty of flexibility in learning.
Flexibility in learning is the ability of an animal or human to apply a learned principle in a variety of situations and contexts. For...
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Why does my dog jump up?
Most of the time, most dogs that jump up are essentially after your attention. Your focus, your body orientation, your hands, your voice,...
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