by AmeeAbel | Nov 5, 2014 | Doggy Thoughts, Pet Dog Training
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...
by AmeeAbel | Oct 31, 2013 | Pet Dog Training
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...
by AmeeAbel | Feb 11, 2013 | Pet Dog Training
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...
