Dog Training Articles

Three things I always try to do to make my training better. They can be hard but committing to do these things before you start will turn into a better session. 1. Never be in a hurry. I will break the simplest things down into even simpler pieces if the dog seems...

This one is largely for people who add an adult dog to their household, but it does have some puppy applications. Most homeowners are familiar with transplant shock, if we plant a tree in the yard it takes it quite a while to get over that shock and get back to the...

I'm already getting lots of calls from families that got a new puppy over the holidays. A LOT of calls. They want help, they already are stressed, and they can't understand why their cute little dog is doing what it is doing. Let me give you some (not all) of the...

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...