My friend taught me this while I was living with her and her dog. One day I came down the stairs and her dog was in the trash, and I gasped in shock. She immediately fled the scene. She heard me coming down the stairs, it was the gasp that…
Category: Relationship Based Training
Dog Culture
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Gunther and the Goose
I think you could watch this video and say “Well you didn’t get that dog to drop it, he dropped it on his own.” And to that I would say, “exactly.” I want my dog to make the best decisions for me AND him. And I want him to make…
Behavior Modification
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Rubber Band Ball
Recently I’ve been working with a dog to unravel her anxiety. She’s very well loved and is overweight. We were walking down a hill to exit the park at the end of our session. Every couple of feet she would speed up and begin to pull us down the hill…
Relationship Based Training
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The Whirlpool Effect | Part 2
The second evolution of the whirlpool effect takes some imagination. Imagine all along that leaf was actually a frog egg (could also be a fish egg, but I like frogs.) After being laid in a clutch safely attached to algae, your frog egg is swept away, separated, and freely floating…