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“Rev Up, Cool Down” – Teaching Your Dog How To Chill Out
If you’ve got a high-energy dog who’s constantly on the go, you know the struggle—how do you help them learn to calm down without squashing their personality? In my previous post, HELP! My Dog Will Not Settle Down! I went over how to teach an automatic “settle.” This is helpful for times when your dog…
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Mistakes Happen – it’s okay!
In the video above, I confuse the heck out of Ember! You can tell she’s confused based on her behavior here – she’s looking away, she’s jumping up too high, and wrapping her paws around my arm. All of these signals indicate she doesn’t know what I want. Even if you feel like a failure…
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3 Common Dog Training Myths
There are so many myths out there about dog training. Go to Google and type in anything you want to learn about training your dog, and you’ll see plenty of advice that is just… not correct. There is a lot of good advice, too, but you have to wade through a lot of garbage to…
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More Tips For Bitey & Mouthy Dogs
I’ve written about this previously in my post Ouch! My Puppy is Biting Me! but I wanted to add a few more tips for dealing with dogs or puppies who are really bitey. This is strictly for dogs who are play-biting, NOT for dogs biting out of fear or aggression. A lot of the puppies…
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Markers in Dog Training
A video to follow along with this post is coming and will be linked here. To put it simply, Marker Training is a training methodology that uses words or sounds to mark or bring attention to a very specific behavior. There are both reward markers and no-reward markers – or NRMs. Reward Markers:A Reward Marker…
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