Dog training really boils down to influencing your dog’s behavior. Reward your dog for doing the behaviors you want to increase such as sit, down, stay, walk and come, and punish and or manage behaviors you want to decrease such…

Do you remember as a kid when your Grandmother would tell you that you had to finish your vegetables before you could have any ice cream? If your Grandmother or anyone else has ever said that to you, then they…

Just last week I was working with a very nice lady that had a jumping problem with her dog. She badly wanted her dog to stop jumping and pretty much didn’t care about anything else. I explained why jumping happens,…

A few years back a very distraught lady walked into my dog training studio. When I looked at her I thought she was recently assaulted. She sat down and started to cry. I offered her a glass of water and…

There is an old saying among dog trainers that goes: “The only thing two dog trainers can agree on is what the third one is doing wrong.” There are basically two schools of dog trainers. On one side you have…

Have you ever heard the term “Catch 22?” The phrase became popular after the novel of the same name written by Joseph Heller in 1961. Wikipedia defines the phrase as: “Catch-22” is common idiomatic usage meaning “a no-win situation” or…

Just last week, I was working with a woman that had a jumping problem with her dog. She badly wanted her dog to stop jumping and pretty much didn’t care about anything else. I explained why jumping happens, what she…