Category Archives: Training
Guest post: The Dos and Don’ts of Bringing Your Dog to Work
You already know that owning a pet can make a person less-stressed out, calmer, and less lonely. Now think of the place in your life where you experience the most stressful and frustrating situations… I’ll give you a hint, it … Continue reading
Mirror Method Dog Training
Have you heard of this? It’s sometimes called the Hungarian Clicker Method. Yesterday, I received a YouTube link from someone in our therapy dog group. The video blew me away for both its cuteness and the incredible tricks the dogs … Continue reading
Are city dogs happier than suburban dogs?
When we lived in DC, Emmett and Lucas had very busy social lives. They went to the park for 45 minutes in the morning and 45 minutes in the evening. We took them to Petsmart or to friends’ houses for … Continue reading
A new month, new training goals!
Can you believe it’s almost May? I don’t know where this year has gone, though I’m so happy to finally have the windows in our house open. It was time to bring in a little fresh air! You know that … Continue reading
Does he know he’s a therapy dog?
Last week, Emmett worked as a therapy dog at a city-sponsored expo on volunteering, a children’s program at a residential hospital, and as a reading partner at the public library. By the time we got to the library on Saturday, … Continue reading
Self-rewarding behaviors: Part 2
As I wrote earlier in the week, we’re having some trouble with self-rewarding behaviors. With Emmett it’s the counter-surfing, and we’re working out the technology to do a little Skype-scare with him. In the meantime, we have a similar, but … Continue reading
The trouble with self-rewarding behavior: Part 1
Emmett and Lucas do wonderfully with the clicker. Emmett has been able to learn a number of tricks, and we’ve overcome a lot of Lucas’ troublesome behaviors using the clicker and slices of American cheese. But, unfortunately, both boys have … Continue reading
Help! Training tips to achieve “back up”??
Emmett has an extremely solid default sit. Early on, we taught him to sit at the door, sit for his food, sit for a treat, sit, sit, sit. It’s a wonderful default behavior. It’s reliable to the extent that when … Continue reading
On little dogs and guest blogs
This is Stanley: Stanley is utterly adorable. He’s also very, very small. Here’s Stanley next to Lucas: He spent the day with us yesterday. Little Stanley is only 8 pounds, literally 1/10th the size of Lucas. It was a great … Continue reading
Animal Assisted Therapy, Hiking with the Dogs, and a New Training Goal
Whew! What a whirlwind few days! It started out on Friday with Emmett and I visiting three kindergarten classes. That means lots and lots and lots of 5- and 6-year-olds! Emmett did spectacularly, patiently sitting while 75 grubby hands patted … Continue reading
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