by Tod McVicker | Apr 20, 2016 | Dog Training Articles
In listening to the autobiography of Helen Keller, the famous deaf and blind woman, I was struck by a story from her childhood about a story she wrote in braille when she was 11 called The Frost King. She felt the story was quite good, and she sent to her friend the...
by Tod McVicker | Feb 22, 2016 | Dog Training Articles
I was working with a board and train dog today, and I looked down and could tell he was thinking about stepping off the curb into the road before I told him to. I made a little corrective noise and told him I could see what he was thinking. He looked at me (I could...
by Tod McVicker | Feb 5, 2016 | Dog Training Articles
One of the things that I think makes my board and train program successful is the way I live with your dog while it is here, and teach you to live with your dog when it comes home – but anyone can adopt some of these principles to have a happier dog. One of the...
by Tod McVicker | Jan 13, 2016 | Dog Training Articles
There is a constant debate among dog people about pure bred dogs versus mixed breeds, and then within breeds what is the end goal of the breeders. I thought we might examine that a bit from a trainer’s perspective (specifically this trainer 🙂 ). If you are in...
by Tod McVicker | Dec 26, 2015 | Dog Training Articles
This is one of the most common problems I come across as a dog trainer, the dog will work fine for me or another handler but won’t do the same for the owner. It is a frustrating situation because it isn’t a case of having the correct skills, or being a good or bad...
