Tag: Marker
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A Beginner’s Guide to Off-Leash Reliability: Building Trust, Focus, and Freedom
Want to hike and explore with your dog off leash? Learn how to build reliable off-leash behavior using attention, leave it, and recall!
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Hyper to Hiking Buddy: How to Channel Your Dog’s Energy for Adventure
Got a high-energy dog? Learn how to turn your wild, overexcited pup into a calm, focused trail partner. Espresso Dog Training shows you how to go from chaos to connection using positive reinforcement.
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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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3 Games That Work Your Dog’s Brain
If you’ve already read my previous post on Mental vs. Physical Exercise, then you already know that I’m a huge fan of mental exercise! In other words, I’m a big fan of anything that really works out your dog’s brain. The reasons why are listed in the above post, but I’ll quickly list them here…
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How to Handle Feeling Frustration in Training
Everyone has dealt with feeling frustrated during a training session. We want our dogs to be perfect because we see perfect videos of perfect dogs made by perfect trainers all over the Internet, right? What these videos don’t show you is the process that the trainers went through. Even my own videos show a finished…
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Mental vs. Physical Exercise
I hear it all the time. “I walk him for an hour, but…” “He can swim for forty-five minutes, but…” “She can run around in a field for two hours, but…” “… he (or she) can’t calm down!” I’ve touched a little bit on teaching dogs to be calm in this (kinda lengthy) blog post:…
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Give In! To Leash Pressure!
In my previous post talking about loose leash walking, I described my usual go-to for teaching a dog to walk on a loose leash. If you haven’t read it already, check it out here: My Dog is Dragging Me Everywhere! Teaching your dog where to walk – right next to you – is going to…
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Rewards, Lures, and Bribes; Oh My!
Yes, dear readers, as the title suggests, today I will be talking about the differences between Rewards, Lures, and Bribes. There are many people – owners and trainers alike – who make the claim that using food in training is “bribery.” Many believe that using food will create a dog who only works – or…
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