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Progress via complexity
I often talk about adding "complexity" to training. When I say complexity, I mean adding something, anything, that is a little bit different or new than what you did the last time you worked with your dog. In heeling that could be going a few steps further, placing a...
Personal Play with a mouthy dog
Dogs that love to work and to play tug (bite!) can be a challenge in the world of personal play. The might enjoy the contact but they find the delay between the start of training and an opportunity to win a favored toy to be frustrating. This is no problem. I still...
Mental Frameworks for training
When you're working with a dog, you can start your approach with different mental frameworks, and any of them is likely to get you where you want to go. You can focus on the observable behavior, the emotions that underly that observable behavior, or the arousal level....