Finding The Off Button can be a challenge for a puppy like Travis. As well as getting the balance between stimulation and exercise right, it is important to ensure that dogs get sufficient rest and good quality sleep. Teaching a settle is a “foundation behaviour” that tended only to be taught by traditional trainers as […]

Cueing Up – The Watch(ing) Dog Never underestimate how much your dog watches you. Dogs spend a lot of time studying humans as they try to predict what will happen next. However much we speech-orientated humans think that our dogs are listing to our verbal cues, the chances are that they are watching for visual […]

Counting Our Blessings and Accentuating The Positive Being told to count one’s blessings can be incredibly irritating; the sort of thing one’s parents say when what one actually needs is some help with a problem. On the other hand: You’ve got to accentuate the positiveEliminate the negativeAnd latch on to the affirmativeDon’t mess with Mr […]

Trick and Treat And Going Out With A Bang As Travis approaches his first birthday, the nights close in and the pumpkins appear… and so do the fireworks. I always said that I wanted a dog born in firework season so that he would be inured  to bangs and flashes and I got my wish. […]