by Tena Parker | Feb 13, 2013 | "How To...", Basic Training Tips, Foster Dogs, Training, Video blog
Wordless Wednesday–Teaching Stay pt. 2 A few weeks ago I posted my Stay for Duration How-To Video. Here is the companion piece, How to teach Stay focusing on Motion and Distance. Stay tuned for another video in the stay...
by Tena Parker | Feb 6, 2013 | "How To...", Basic Training Tips, Positive Training, Video blog
Wordless Wednesday–Back up With Shayne Edition Here’s Shayne learning how to “back up” in heel position. I talked about the process and how I decided on the process in yesterday’s blog but here’s the video to accompany it! ...
by Tena Parker | Jan 31, 2013 | "How To...", Basic Training Tips, Training, Video blog
How To Teach “Stay”–focusing on duration Whenever we are training any behavior, but most particularly with stay, we need to think about the “3 D’s.” Duration–how long can the dog do the behavior. Distance–how far away...
by Tena Parker | Jan 28, 2013 | Basic Training Tips, Foster Dogs, Video blog
101 Things To Do With A Box Looking for a fun winter-time activity to burn some mental and physical energy with out freezing your toes off outside or making Fido get too amped up on the house? Have you ever thought about playing with a box? 101 things to do with a...
by Tena Parker | Jan 24, 2013 | Foster Dogs, Training, Video blog
How To Teach “Go To Mat” Mat-work is one of my favorite behaviors to teach and is a behavior that has a ridiculous number of uses. Do you have a dog who has rude door manners with visitors? You can fix it with mat-work. Do you have a dog who begs...
