When you are cooking in your kitchen, what does your dog typically do? What would you like for your dog to do? Mikhayla Hughes-Shaw with WCPO’s Cincy Lifestyle program filmed this dog training tip with me last year where I talk about teaching your dog good manners in the kitchen. [Read more…] about Teaching Your Dog Good Manners In The Kitchen
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Make Having Fun A Dog Training Habit
Here is a simple dog training tip: If you want your dog to give you attention, check in, and listen to you outside, you have to earn that privilege. Practice showing your dog that YOU have the power to make FUN things happen when your dog CHOOSES to give you attention outside. Do it often. Make having fun it a dog training habit. [Read more…] about Make Having Fun A Dog Training Habit
Listen To Your Dog To Learn About His Reinforcers
Dog Training Tip: If your dog tells you he LOVES an activity, he is telling you YOU just found a reinforcer for him! Listen to your dog to learn about his reinforcers. [Read more…] about Listen To Your Dog To Learn About His Reinforcers
Problems With Luring In Dog Training
I see it happen all of the time. When I ask people to show me how they ask their dog to sit, they they pull out a treat, hold it in front of their dog’s face and tell their dog to sit. AND their dog sits. This is called luring, one strategy used in dog training to teach behaviors. While luring can be helpful in teaching new behaviors, there are problems with using lures too much that I’ll talk about more in this post. [Read more…] about Problems With Luring In Dog Training
Training, Not Luck, Gets Good Manners
Have you ever passed someone walking his/her dog on the street or in a store or park whose dog walked perfectly on a loose leash and sat to greet people… and wondered how that person got so lucky to have a dog like that? [Read more…] about Training, Not Luck, Gets Good Manners
Changing Criteria In Behavior
Does your dog know a hand touch from a standing position, but looks at you with a blank stare if you present your hand while your dog is sitting? [Read more…] about Changing Criteria In Behavior