In this video, we discuss the 3 food markers that we teach all our dogs and clients and talk about HOW to teach and use them. We cover the fundamental handling skills required to successfully incorporate reward markers, and the mistakes we often make that can be detrimental to their effectiveness.

I was called out to help someone with how to introduce and integrate two dogs from seperate households.

We’ve all met dogs that check to see if you’re holding a treat or wearing your treat pouch before responding to a cue. That’s not a flaw in the training method, it’s a flaw in the execution of the training and one that can be easily avoided.

Without question, the most common issue a lot of dog owners face is aggressive-like or reactive displays when on a leash.

One of the most important things we need to do with puppies is 'socialise' them to new places, people, environments, sounds etc to help them be able to cope as they get older.

One of the biggest and most critical mistakes we see people make when starting to train dogs that show nervous tendencies is that we tend to put too much pressure on them and make things even more stressful that what they need to be.

Preventing unwanted behaviours is always better and more effective than trying to cure or modify them when they do (and they will) arise.

This is our new foster dog, Jasper.

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 our dogs to understand what it is they should do instead. We have to create a system that our dogs understand which we can then build on and then use in certain challenging situations.

One of the very first skills we teach any dog that we work with is to LURE.

One of the most common and normal problems new puppy owners face is the relentless puppy mouthing. It can be quite a shock. We cuddle them and then we get bitten on the nose!

Puppy Survival Tip!

Puppy Training Tip

Puppy Survival Tip

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 target where we can teach our dog to move to certain areas or on to different objects.

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 away shouting 'Don't worry! They're friendly'.

This video shows you the second half of the indication training.

How to teach the indication.

G'day gang!

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.