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Things YOU need to know to help your reactive dog
Without question, the most common issue a lot of dog owners face is aggressive-like or reactive displays when on a leash.
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How to socialise your puppy before you can take them to places
One of the most important things we need to do with puppies is 'socialise' them to new places, people, environments, sounds etc to help...
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How to teach a puppy to walk nicely next to you
Preventing unwanted behaviours is always better and more effective than trying to cure or modify them when they do (and they will) arise.
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How to build trust with a nervous dog
This is our new foster dog, Jasper.
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The First Things to Teach any Dog
We get lots of enquiries asking for help with some pretty serious and challenging issues. We can't simply say NO don't do that and expect...
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How to teach your dog to follow a moving target
Following on from the last video where Sunrise learned a nose touch, in this video the Poodle demonstrates how to turn that touch into a...
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How to teach your excitable dog to ignore other dogs
One of the biggest problems we see out and about is out of control dogs rushing over to see people or dogs whilst the owner is a fair way...
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How to stop annoying behaviours
A lot of the things dogs do are a bit annoying for us. Especially if they do them all the time. Barking, jumping up, pulling etc.
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Building Reinforcers
Positive reinforcement isn’t just about treats. It’s about implementing things that are actually reinforcing as opposed to just rewarding.
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How to teach a dog to drop a toy
Hey team! Video tutorial for you on how to teach your dog to drop a toy using the two toy method.
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Teaching Impulse Control with Toys
Video request by Ginny Potts!
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Building engagement and desensitising young Larry
This is Larry, he's very friendly, but too friendly - to the point where he wants to run off and say hello to everybody. Larry's owner...
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Reinforcement Delivery - It Matters
The reason dogs do things comes down to reinforcement.
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Building Food Drive
I do a lot of talking in this video so I don't really need a write up. But if you have a dog that not that foody this will help!
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Loose Leash Walking
Make it easy, make it fun. Set your dog up to succeed by teaching them in a location that is distraction free, then slowly generalise to...
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How to Play Tug
Humans aren't notoriously great at playing tug with dogs. It's a handling skill to learn like everything else - this video will show you...
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Teach a dog to settle
Here's the first part of the video for teaching your dog to settle. I've decided to use two methods, 'free shaping' and 'luring'.
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How to teach a 'leave it'
Teaching a ‘leave it’ using the errorless learning approach. This method works really well for lots of dogs - especially ones that tend...
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Where to start?
First week with Kemai, another recent foster. Here's where we started with his training.
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