Reinforcement Delivery - It Matters
The reason dogs do things comes down to reinforcement. A reward is not the same as a 'reinforcer'. A reward can be anything the dog...
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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!
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...
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...
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'. They...
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...
Where to start?
First week with Kemai, another recent foster. Here's where we started with his training.
Introducing staying on a platform
Here’s little Bruce learning to stay on a platform. Teaching a pup or dog to stay is one of the most useful things we can teach them. I’m...
Our new rescue pup's first week
So we got a 6 month old, blind and deaf puppy just over a week ago now. We will be documenting all her progress over on her own page...
Low Stress catheter placement
Here's Poodle having his first catheter placement. Unfortunately this was a situation that needed to be done and we didn't have time to...
Example of low stress cat grooming
Meet Mercury, a Persian cat who has medical issues preventing him from grooming himself sufficiently, and who also finds the vet clinic...
Cooperative Blood Draw from leg
A few days before the catheter placement video above, here is Poodle having his first cooperative blood draw. There is lots in here to...
Jugular Blood Draw - practice at the vets #1
Tory's progression towards a cooperative jugular blood draw.
Jugular Blood Draw - practice at the vets #2
Tory's progression towards a cooperative jugular blood draw.
Example of a cooperative care health check
Tory's first cooperative health check. She isn't aggressive about being handled, but she definitely doesn't like it. Here we use a...
Platform training to combat frustration 2/3
Video 2 in Chester's 3 part series looking at starting to proof his place behaviour to withstand all manner of distractions etc. What I...
Platform Training to Combat Frustration 1/3
Chester came for a 2 week long board and train to work on his compulsive tail chasing, which occurred whenever the energy in his...
Good play vs. bad play - what to look out for
Hannah recorded this little interaction between Eddie and Stella and there was so much that was going on that people might miss I thought...
When to end a session
Dog behaviour can be very subtle. Most of us will miss a lot of cues, including us trainers. Here's a breakdown of a session with Marley...
Focusing on associations, not just behaviours
In the first part, I'm creating expectations along with associations toward the car. I don't want it to JUST mean exciting things. So...