Positive reinforcement isn’t just about treats. It’s about implementing things that are actually reinforcing as opposed to just rewarding.

Hey team! Video tutorial for you on how to teach your dog to drop a toy using the two toy method.

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 sessions often are - that's totally ok!

Quick and easy way to teach a chin rest which can be used to cooperative care and veterinary situations later down the track.

Video request by Ginny Potts!

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 had already done one initial consult with us where we had put in place a plan to first manage his behaviour, whilst pairing that with basic training to help change the way he feels, and consequently change his behaviour.

The reason dogs do things comes down to reinforcement.

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!

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 real life.

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 all the important bits to keep in mind.

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'.

Teaching a ‘leave it’ using the errorless learning approach. This method works really well for lots of dogs - especially ones that tend to get frustrated quickly. Instead of using the classic trial and error method we can incrementally reinforce behaviours using a VERY HIGH rate of reinforcement to get the end behaviour we want - using nothing but positive reinforcement and allowing the dog to get things correct the whole time. The idea with this method is to build such a s

First week with Kemai, another recent foster. Here's where we started with his training.

Here’s little Bruce learning to stay on a platform.

So we got a 6 month old, blind and deaf puppy just over a week ago now.

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 prepare for this specifically. However, due to his history of cooperative care with his grooming, we managed to use the same principles to makes it a low stress, 'almost' restraint free experience for him.

Meet Mercury, a Persian cat who has medical issues preventing him from grooming himself sufficiently, and who also finds the vet clinic /grooming salon very stressful. We decided to embark on a low stress training programme to teach Mercury to tolerate being groomed at home, and in the process made a fun little video.

A few days before the catheter placement video above, here is Poodle having his first cooperative blood draw. There is lots in here to improve on, you can see he gets a bit uncomfortable and stops offering his leg, but unfortunately, it was a necessity as he fell ill, and the result was a great first step!

Tory's progression towards a cooperative jugular blood draw.

Tory's progression towards a cooperative jugular blood draw.