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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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Teach Your Dog Scent Work - Step Two
This video shows you the second half of the indication training.
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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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Adira - teaching a lie out - session 1
This is the very first session of teaching Adira how to hold a sustained lie out for later use in cooperative care. It's messy, as first...
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Adira - teaching a chin rest - session 1
Quick and easy way to teach a chin rest which can be used to cooperative care and veterinary situations later down the track.
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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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Introducing staying on a platform
Here’s little Bruce learning to stay on a platform.
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Our new rescue pup's first week
So we got a 6 month old, blind and deaf puppy just over a week ago now.
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