Motivational Training. Until….

by | Jan 9, 2013 | Most Viewed Posts, Musings

It’s easy to be a “motivational” trainer when everything is going right.  Feed cookies, play with toys and watch the behaviors accumulate.  It’s all good! What do you do when it’s not going so well?  When you have a problem and you are...

Lyra – 14 weeks – re-evaluating my plan

by | Nov 14, 2011 | Lyra

Here are a few things I’ve learned or changed  in the past few weeks. I’m using more food.  What can I say…it works.  When I call her into the house, she now gets a cookie about 1/3 of the time.  That’s up quite a bit from what I had hoped for....

Dog Trainer or Victim

by | Nov 9, 2011 | Most Viewed Posts, Musings

Unusual day today.  To give you some context for what happened, check out this short (8 sec) video clip from yesterday: I’m working on Raika’s “drive with control”.  The training scenario is….get dog riled up, wait for her shut up (can be...

Lyra – Week 2, day 5

by | Oct 22, 2011 | Lyra

Today’s post was supposed to include a video of my brilliant puppy.  It didn’t turn out quite as planned. For starters, I forgot to do something with the kids.  So, predictably, they showed up within a few minutes.  Since this is not unusual and I usually...