Loving a Reactive Dog
Loving a reactive dog can test your patience and push your buttons. It forces you to take the long way round because you know that the...
Your Dog is Not an Oven
My oven broke this past weekend. My husband Phil made dinner Saturday night, used the broiler, and turned everything off properly after...
Dog Training: Is it Only a Luxury?
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what to write for this week’s blog, and this topic is always on my mind. Dog training has...
Be a Consequence Machine
A common misconception about dog training is that it’s all about the “commands”; you have to teach the commands, or else your dog won’t...
Mary and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Neighbor AKA, why I Don’t Use Fear in My Training
I’m going to start this blog post with a story; it’s going to seem like a longwinded, irrelevant story, but I promise I have a point!...
