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A Tether Can Help Teach Your Dog To Regulate

For a dog, learning how to regulate herself reduces stress and arousal, allowing for clearer thinking. A tether can help teach your dog to regulate and settle. Photo: Blue Ash, Ohio, standard poodle learning to settle while being tethered to a post.

Regulating arousal is not so natural for most dogs. To teach your dog to settle think about it like teaching any other behavior. It is not the most fun lesson but it is well worth your time. Learning how to regulate herself reduces stress and arousal, allowing for clearer thinking. A tether can help teach […]

Crate Training Your Puppy

Crate training your puppy can begin early so long as your goal is to teach your puppy her crate is a comfortable, cozy, safe place to relax and sleep. Pictured: a Symmes Township, Ohio, miniature dachshund puppy resting in her crate.

Crate training your puppy can begin early so long as your goal is to teach your puppy her crate is a comfortable, cozy, safe place to relax and sleep. With a young puppy needing upwards of 18 to 20 hours of sleep a day, there is a lot of time to practice. I’ve heard it […]

Puppy Lessons The First Week

During your puppy's first week, focus less on puppy training milestones and more on meeting your puppy's needs. pictured: a Cincinnati puppy with a tug toy

You brought home a precious little puppy, and you are smitten already.  Oh my gosh, I totally get it!  If you had researched online, you may have a long checklist of what to do and what to train your puppy. Teaching him to sit, walk nicely on a leash, sleep in a crate, go potty […]

Training Plan For Better Dog Manners During Your Calls

Your phone call can be a cue for your dog to do attention seeking behaviors. Dog training tips for changing your dogs behaviors.

Does your dog begin barking or pawing at you, or pacing at your feet as soon as you start a phone call or Zoom meeting? Here are dog training tips for changing your dog’s behaviors…to have better dog manners during your calls. In my home, I also have an African Grey who likes to interrupt […]

Using Cues And Markers To Be A More Effective Dog Trainer

Cincinnati dog trainer has tips: How a cued behavior can help teach your dog another behavior

Cues and markers can absolutely help you to be a more effective dog trainer for your pet. Here is a training tip on how to use them to create many fun reinforcers. First, I may confuse you. Did you know that a marker is also a cue, and a cue can be a marker? Yep, […]

Minimizing Your Dog’s Stress This Halloween

Planning ahead: tips from Cincinnati Certified Dog Trainer Lisa Desatnik for minimizing your dog's stress this Halloween. Photo: dog wearing a Halloween costume with a child trick-or-treater in the background

While Halloween is a lot of fun for kids and kids at heart, trick-or-treating night can be difficult for our dogs. There are many strange noises, sights and activity, and sometimes dogs are forced to wear costumes they do not like. Some dogs enjoy seeing the trick-or-treaters but can be prone to jumping on them […]

Are You Paying Attention To Your Dog’s Body Language?

Cincinnati dog trainer Lisa Desatnik interacting with a wire-haired dachshund puppy.

Paying attention to your dog’s body language and communication builds trust and comfort. It can go a long way to support your dog’s need for safety in his interactions with you. Teaching your children how to recognize this is also very important. If you live in the Cincinnati area, I have free kids classes on […]

How Shaking His Mat Helped Teach This Dog To Come

How shaking his mat helped teach this dachshund dog to come when called.

Apparently, Charlie – a dachshund dog – saw a whole different use for this mat other than the use his guardians had gotten it for. That is ok. Look at what fun shaking his mat was giving him! This is an outlet for him to do natural behaviors for him as a dachshund. And he […]

Teaching Your Dog To Go To Place

Benefits of teaching your dog to go to a place; and how to train your dog to go to place. Photo: a goldendoodle dog laying on her place, which is a dog bed

I have posted many photos and videos of dogs on or going to a ‘place’.  Teaching go to place was an early behavior I taught my dog, Dawson, when he was a puppy. There are a lot of reasons why this dog training lesson is important. There are a lot of reasons why this dog […]

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