Playing Games with My Students

Playing Games with My Students

Practicing skills can be very tedious—remember that music teacher that made you play scales? C Major, F Major (with one sharp) and so on. Scales are like bad tasting medicine—make you better but blech! Dog training can’t be like scales. Even if the humans will put up...
Be the Pizza

Be the Pizza

Glance at the photo to the left. This dog is learning. He is learning through association that grabbing the Pizza box is a great way to get Pizza.  Because it’s been successful, it’s behavior he’s likely to repeat. Not only that, I’m willing to...
Dog Training’s Magic Word: Sit

Dog Training’s Magic Word: Sit

I use “Sit” with my dogs a lot.  This may sound basic, but it’s also dog behavior magic.  It’s the most basic meme in our communication with dogs. It’s the place where human behavior meets dog behavior. I speak or gesture: sit. The dog...