Dog Training Articles

A lot of other trainers have identified and feel that status disparity is an important concept, I agree with them. Here's my spin on it. A lot of the problems we have with our dogs are not because they don't know how to do this or that behavior, but that the desired...

A very common thing I see when working with clients is a dog that was obtained as an adult, and likes the existing animals/people in the house, but does not like new people or dogs introduced later - sometimes attacking them with extreme prejudice. The owners are...

We dog trainers are in a unique position here in Dallas/Fort Worth and throughout Texas and the United States. We are basically an unregulated industry, anyone can buy business cards and advertise they are a Dog Behaviorist, or a Dog Trainer, or a Dog Whisperer, or a...

Sometimes I have people tell me (within a short span of time) that their dog likes me more than it likes them. I don't know if "likes" is the right work, but the dog will be drawn to me. I don't have a special power, anyone can duplicate this with a dog. You don't...

I hear this a lot, and some of the explanations are very obvious. The dog was at a dog park or on a walk and got attacked and injured, then became dog aggressive. We can clearly see an event that changed the way the dog feels about other dogs. We can still change that...

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...

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...

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...

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 the...