by AmeeAbel | Mar 20, 2020 | Doggy Thoughts
Hey Rally Friends, We can still train our dogs and improve our Rally skills even if we can’t get together for a class. Let’s have a virtual class! We’ll use compact sequences that can fit into small training spaces (or be stretched further apart if you’re...
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 29, 2014 | Doggy Thoughts
I get great satisfaction from volunteering with my dogs. So it was with pride and pleasure that Loki and I joined six other therapy dogs (and their humans) to visit Keene State College this past week. In the aftermath of the school’s national notoriety as devastators...
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 | Jun 14, 2013 | Pet Dog Training
Any second grader will tell you—magnetism is a fickle force. Only a few things attract each other. Move the magnet too quickly, and it doesn’t grab hold. Get too much distance between magnet and object, the attraction diminishes and things fall away. In...
