There's a misconception that dog trainers spend hours a day training their dogs. We don’t. What we do, however, is...

In this breakdown we look at how we can help our dogs cope by implementing a relatively simple method but one that can be tricky to get right. Everything becomes just a little bit tricky when our dogs are reacting..

A few years back I had an encounter on a walk that is very common, but a huge problem with how we view, treat and encourage our dogs to behave.

If you want to have a dog that listens to you then there's a few things you might need to change first before we can expect them to make a change.

Not only is nagging annoying for the receiver, but there are some genuine reasons why it may be inhibiting your dog's training progress.

Loose leash walking can often feel like an impossible goal. Here are my top tips for getting that romantic picturesque walk you imagined.

A common problem we all face is figuring out how to communicate and train our dogs effectively without frustration developing from both parties.

I hate the term 'reactive dog'. It really doesn't mean much. Reactions are normal. It's part of every species' repertoire which helps...

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There are a few hacks that not only make those initial couple of months survivable but also set your puppy up for success long term

This is something that pops up all the time with most owners. There has been a big push to 'socialise' dogs and this is a great idea. But...

One of the biggest challenges dog owners face is walking with their reactive dog. Before we delve into things, what does a 'reactive' dog look like?

A lot of the dogs we work with start off very much like Richie here - they don't have a huge history of training, have very few skills that we can draw down on in difficult situations and they can be impulsive. They're not easy dogs to handle in these initial stages of training because you only get fleeting moments of brilliance amongst a whole bunch of messy stuff and there's no quick fix that suddenly makes them perfect at loose leash walking past distractions - good things

One of the biggest problems that we see when working with dogs and humans is the inability of humans to notice and accurately translate what a dog is trying to communicate.

In this video I've tried to breakdown the important steps which help us manage and handle our dogs when they are reacting. Miso has...

When we bring a pup into our lives, one of the most important things we can do is teach them what is expected of them and what isn't.

One of the biggest issues we find people have when trying to train new behaviours or change existing behaviours in their dogs is that they ask their dog to make leaps in learning that are too big and cause the dog to fail, and then the dog gets blamed for being stubborn, or unmotivated, or not very smart. In reality, what we’re observing is a process called lumping, which is where we’re essentially asking dogs to learn a skill without breaking it down fine enough for them to

This is where the real fun begins! We have an indication on our target odour, but up until now our dogs have been using their eyes, not their nose. Throughout this next stage we're going to be progressively making the task harder (without sacrificing our success rate) so that our pups are encouraged to sniff out the odour and slowly wean out the opportunity to use their eyes by making the hide harder to see.

Ok! We've got the hover indication down to a fine art on a coin, it's time to transfer that indication over to the target odour so we can start introducing the searchy sniffy stuff!

One of the most important aspects of training any animal is to teach them to cope and tolerate with lots of different husbandry procedures.